. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. bsequently he was employed in superin-tending A General Collection of Voyages andTravels, extending to seventeen volumes 4to; and a New Modern Atlas, in parts, the formerof which was commenced in 1808, and the latterin 1809. He also edited for a short time TheCritical Review, with but indifferent last original work was Petralogy, or a Trea-tise on Rocks, which appeared in 1811. In 1814he republished in two volumes 8vo, his Inquiryinto the History of Scotland,
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. bsequently he was employed in superin-tending A General Collection of Voyages andTravels, extending to seventeen volumes 4to; and a New Modern Atlas, in parts, the formerof which was commenced in 1808, and the latterin 1809. He also edited for a short time TheCritical Review, with but indifferent last original work was Petralogy, or a Trea-tise on Rocks, which appeared in 1811. In 1814he republished in two volumes 8vo, his Inquiryinto the History of Scotland, along with his Dis-sertation on the Scythians or Goths. In his lat-ter years he resided almost entirely at Paris,where he died, March 10, 1826. His appearancewas that of a very little and very thin old man,with a small, sharp, yellow face, thickly pitted bythe smallpox, and wearing a pair of green specta-cles. He was an eccentric but highly industriousliterary workman; and his talents, though insome instances ill directed, were commensuratewith undertakings of no ordinary rank hi litera-ture. His portrait is subjoined. Pitcaiun, a local surname, derived from lands ot tliatname in the parish of Leslie, Fifeshire. The family of Fit-cairn of Pitcairn was one of the oldest in that county. Piersde Pitca:rn, their ancestor, swore fealty to Edward I. in1296. Nisbet (Historical and Critical Remarks on RagmanRoll, appended to System of Heraldry, vol. ii. p. 38) statesthat he had seen charters of this family as far back as adds: Of them was Robert Pitcairn, commendator ofDunfermline, secretary during the regency of Moray Lennox, PITCAIRN. 289 PITCAIRNE. Mar, and Morton; a great compiler with everything upper-most, a great timeserver, a great enemy to Queen Mary, anda very humble servant of the regents. There is no memoryof him remaining. He was one of the nine persons chosenby the regent Moray to accompany him to England in 1568,when he went to justify his proceedings against Qu
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