. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. ly the green moundand the scattered gowans, and was moved to tears as hethought of the young life of promise cut ofl: in the morningof its existence. Burns erected a plain, touching tombstonein memory of his brother poet, and inscribed it with thewell-known epitaph:— No sculpturd marble here, nor pompous lay,No storied urn, nor animated bust !This simple stone directs pale Scotias wayTo pour her sorrows oer her poets dust. The inscription runs :— By special grant of the Managers toRobert Burns,—who erected this stone,—this buri
. Records of the clan and name of Fergusson, Ferguson and Fergus;. ly the green moundand the scattered gowans, and was moved to tears as hethought of the young life of promise cut ofl: in the morningof its existence. Burns erected a plain, touching tombstonein memory of his brother poet, and inscribed it with thewell-known epitaph:— No sculpturd marble here, nor pompous lay,No storied urn, nor animated bust !This simple stone directs pale Scotias wayTo pour her sorrows oer her poets dust. The inscription runs :— By special grant of the Managers toRobert Burns,—who erected this stone,—this burial-place isever to remain sacred to the memory of Robert Fergusson. 300 CLAN FEEGUSSON The names of Burns and Fergusson are thus Unked together,and the admiration of the former for the glorious dawningof the latters genius was not more pronounced nor lessgenuine than his heartfelt regret for his unfortunate end. JAMES FERGUSON, THE ASTRONOMER Few biogiaphies are so full of interest as that of JamesFerguson. The son of humble parents, he rose, by means of. JAMES FERGUSON, THE ASTRONOMER the native genius of his character, to be one of Britainsmost famous experimental philosophers and before his death he wrote his autobiography, which issuch a beautiful example of simplicity and frankness that wecannot do better than give part of it here. I was born in the year 1710, a few miles from Keith, alittle village in Banffshire, in the north of Scotland; andcan with pleasure say that my parents, though poor, were FERaUSONS m ABERDEENSHIRE 301 religious and honest; lived in good repute with all who knewthem ; and died with good characters. As my father had nothing to support a large family buthis daily labour, and the profits arising from a few acres ofland which he rented, it was not to be expected that he couldbestow much on the education of his children: yet they werenot neglected; for, at his leisure hours, he taught them toread and write. And it was while
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