. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. 1 JOHN PARISH. rical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge whichthe Ancients had of India, and the Progress ofTrade with that Country, prior to the Discoveryof the Cape of Good Hope; which took its rise,as he himself informs us, from the perusal of Ma-jor Rennells Memoir for illustrating his Map ofHindostan. It was commenced in the 68th yearof his age, and concluded in less than a twelve-month. Towards the end of 1791, Dr. Robertsonshealth began to decline. Strong symptom
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. 1 JOHN PARISH. rical Disquisition concerning the Knowledge whichthe Ancients had of India, and the Progress ofTrade with that Country, prior to the Discoveryof the Cape of Good Hope; which took its rise,as he himself informs us, from the perusal of Ma-jor Rennells Memoir for illustrating his Map ofHindostan. It was commenced in the 68th yearof his age, and concluded in less than a twelve-month. Towards the end of 1791, Dr. Robertsonshealth began to decline. Strong symptoms ofjaundice suddenly displayed themselves, and laidthe foundation of a lingering and fatal illness; inthe concluding stage of which he removed toGrange House, in the neighbourhood of Edin-burgh, for the advantage of the free air and se-questered scenes of the country. While he wasable to walk abroad, he usually passed a part ofthe day in a small garden, enjoying the simplegratifications which it afforded with all his wontedrelish. He died June 11, 1793, in the seventy-first year of his age. His portrait is subjoined:. lie married, in 1751, his cousin Mary, daughterof jthe Rev. Mr. Nisbet, one of the ministers ofEdinburgh, and left three sons and two eldest son was bred to the law, and became a lord of session. (See p. 348.) The two youngersons entered the army; oce of them, Lieutenant-general James Robertson, distinguished himselfunder Lord Cornwallis in India; and the other,having married the heiress of Kinloch-Moidart, re-tired to reside almost entirely on his estate. Hiselder daughter married Patrick Brydone, Esq. ofLennel House, author of A Tour through Sicilyand Malta; and the younger became the wifeof John Russell, Esq., writer to the signet. ROBERTSON, John Parish, an enterprisingSouth American merchant, was born either atKelso or Edinburgh, in the year 1792, andeducated at the grammar school of father was at one time assistant-secretaryto the
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