[4] Birkwood MSS.

[5] In Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, by Ramsay of Ochtertyre, there is an interesting account of this Mr. Bisset.

[6] Essays on the Intellectual Powers, II. ch. 10.

[7] While he lived here, he seems to have retained the incumbency of New Machar till May 1752.

[8] Long ago removed. I have an engraving of it.

[9] These MS. dissertations have been lately recovered, and I have thus been able to compare them with the Inquiry, in which I find them mostly embodied.

[10] Birkwood MS.

[11] I have elsewhere discussed the true meaning of Berkeley’s philosophy.

[12] Between the College and the Cathedral, diverging to the east.

[13] Watt began those experiments in Glasgow about 1763.