Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . spot of his birth is unknown. In six years after it wasbuilt, according to ProfessorHuxley, the house in St. DavidStreet was the centre of the accomplished and refined so- lord kames and hugo which then distinguishedEdinburgh. Adam Smith, Blair, and Ferguson, werewithin easy reach, and what remains of Humescorrespondence with Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto,Colonel Edmonstone, and Mrs. Cockburn, givespleasant glimpses of his social surroundings, andenables us to understand his contentment withhis absence from th
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . spot of his birth is unknown. In six years after it wasbuilt, according to ProfessorHuxley, the house in St. DavidStreet was the centre of the accomplished and refined so- lord kames and hugo which then distinguishedEdinburgh. Adam Smith, Blair, and Ferguson, werewithin easy reach, and what remains of Humescorrespondence with Sir Gilbert Elliot of Minto,Colonel Edmonstone, and Mrs. Cockburn, givespleasant glimpses of his social surroundings, andenables us to understand his contentment withhis absence from the more perturbed, if morebrilliant, worlds of Paris and London. In 1775 his health began to fail, and it wasevident that he would not long enjoy his newresidence. In the spring of the following year hisdisorder, which appears to have been a hsemorrhageof the bowels, attained such a heiglit that he knewit must be fatal, so he made his will, and wrote My Own Life, the conclusion of which is one ofthe most cheerful and dignified leave-takings oflife and all its On Sunday the 25th of August, 1776, Hume dietlin his new house. On tiie manner of his death,after the beautiful picture which has been drawn otit by his friend, Adam Smith, we need not coolness of his last moments, unexpected bymany, was universally remarked at the time, andis still well known. He was buried in tlie placeselected by himself, in the old burial-ground on thewestern slope of the Calton Hill. A conflictbetween vague horror of his imputed opinions andrespect for the individual who had passed a life sopure and irreproachable, created a great sensationamong the populace of Edinburgh, and a vastconcourse attended the body to the grave, whichfor some time was an object of curiosity to manywho were superstitious eloughto anticipate for his remainsthe fate appropriate to thoseof wizards and necromancers. From the summit of thishill, says Huxley, writing ofthe grave of Hume, there isa prospect
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