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BIOGRAPHICAL lHElIOIR OF THE AUTHOR. JOlIN GALT, the future author of the" Annals of the Parish," and of other works 'which deservedly give him a place among the Scottish Classics, was born at Irvine in Ayrshire, on the 2d .May 1779. In his early childhood he was of a feeble and delicate, or rather sensitive, constitution, although his com· plaints never assumed any serious form. His earliest instructions in reading were given at. home; and, until his tenth year, he was regularly ca~ed with the rest of his family to Greenock, in whic11 town a part of e'very season was spent. 'Vhen yet a very little child, he became passionately fond of flowers, and confesses to have felt an inexpressible delight in cul..tivating them, and in watching their development; but this latterly gave wny to a preference for shmbs and trees: His early aptitude for acquirement was not great, although he ex· hibited indications of a clear and tenacious memory. Amongst his earliest reminisce

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CONTENT8; IEMOIR • , , ~ •; 1JE ANNALS OF THE PARISH 1; 'HE AYRSHIRE LEGATEES 167; LLUSTRATIONS, ANECDOTES AND ORITICAL REMARKS , ••• 297

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