. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. is impossible to convey any adequate idea ofthe gloom which pervaded Edinburgh on the par-ticulars of Hugh Millers lamentable death beingknown. And this gloom was deepened by the oc-currence of another sad tragedy in connexion witf MILLER, 168 HUGH. the fatal revolver with which he had terminatednis life. After the medical inquiry into the causeof his death had been completed, Professor Millertook, the revolver to the gunsmith in Edinburghfrom whom it had been purchased b
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. is impossible to convey any adequate idea ofthe gloom which pervaded Edinburgh on the par-ticulars of Hugh Millers lamentable death beingknown. And this gloom was deepened by the oc-currence of another sad tragedy in connexion witf MILLER, 168 HUGH. the fatal revolver with which he had terminatednis life. After the medical inquiry into the causeof his death had been completed, Professor Millertook, the revolver to the gunsmith in Edinburghfrom whom it had been purchased by Mr. Miller,to ascertain how many shots had been fired, and howmany still remained in the chamber. In the mas-ters absence, the foreman,Thomas Leslie, receivedthe weapon from the professor, and looked into themuzzle, holding the hammer with his fingers, whilehe turned the chamber round to count the hammer slipped from his fingers, struck thecap, and the charge in the barrel exploded. Thecharge entered his right eye and penetrated thebrain, and he fell dead on the floor.—Subjoined isMr. Millers portrait. Mr. Miller was buried in the Grange cemetery,on the south side of Edinburgh, his grave beingon the same line, and a few paces distant, from thatof Dr. Chalmers. The attendance of mournersat the funeral was veiy great, and the concourse ofspectators equally so. At one part of the routethe procession was joined by the kirk session ofFree St. Johns church, of which Mr. Miller was adeacon, by the members of the Royal PhysicalSociety, by the compositors in the Witness office, and by several hundreds of gentlemen. Alongall the streets through which the procession passed,the shops were shut at the request of the magis-trates. In person Mr. Miller was large and had a stalwart form, and a broad and massyforehead, with a singular conformation of one could see him without being convincedthat there was something remarkable about him,and the individuali
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