MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

LORD KAMES.

MEMOIRS

OF THE

LIFE AND WRITINGS

OF

THE HONOURABLE

HENRY HOME OF KAMES,

ONE OF THE SENATORS OF THE COLLEGE OF JUSTICE, AND ONE OF
THE LORDS COMMISSIONERS OF JUSTICIARY IN SCOTLAND:

CONTAINING

SKETCHES

OF THE

PROGRESS OF LITERATURE AND GENERAL IMPROVEMENT
IN SCOTLAND DURING THE GREATER PART OF

THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.

C'est pécher contre le Public que de taire la vertu des Hommes illustres : C'est envier
P'honneur que méritent les uns, et ravir aux autres le bonheur de les imiter.

Paneg. du D. de Sully, par le President DE CHEVRY.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

EDINBURGH:

PRINTED FOR WILLIAM CREECH;

AND T. CADELL AND W. DAVIES, LONDON.

1807.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME IL

BOOK III.

CHAPTER I.

LORD KAMES appointed a Lord of Justiciary.-His character in

that department.-His Correspondence with Dr Tucker-with

Mr Harris of Salisbury-with Dr Franklin renewed-with Dr

John Walker.-Letter from Dr Franklin.-His Observations

on Scottish Music....

CHAPTER II.

Succession to the Estate of Blair-Drummond.-Lord Kames's Agri-

cultural improvements.-Extraordinary plan of improvement on

the Moss of Kincardine. His plans of Gardening.-Correspon-

dence with Mrs Montagu.

...

CHAPTER III.

Lord Kames's Pamphlet on the Linen-manufacture in Scotland.-

He prompts the great Landholders to encourage Manufactures

and Industry.-Project of a Canal between the Forth and

Clyde.-Other undertakings of the same kind.Lord Kames

publishes Remarkable Decisions of the Court of Session.-His

opinion on the Rupture with America.-Correspondence with Dr

VOL. II.

Franklin

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