. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. quiries, besides deriv-ing materials for his intended republication, fromthe most approved works on geology ; but he hadno opportunity of visiting the Continent till thegeneral peace of 1815 threw it open to travellersfrom Britain. At the age of sixty-eight he un-dertook a long journey through France and Swit-zerland into Italy, and spent a considerable time in exploring the mineralogical and geological phe.«nomcua of the Alps. On his return, after eigh-teen months absenc
. The Scottish nation; or, The surnames, families, literature, honours, and biographical history of the people of Scotland. quiries, besides deriv-ing materials for his intended republication, fromthe most approved works on geology ; but he hadno opportunity of visiting the Continent till thegeneral peace of 1815 threw it open to travellersfrom Britain. At the age of sixty-eight he un-dertook a long journey through France and Swit-zerland into Italy, and spent a considerable time in exploring the mineralogical and geological phe.«nomcua of the Alps. On his return, after eigh-teen months absence, other occupations unfortu-nately prevented him from maturing for publicationthe vast body of valuable materials he had col-lected for the proposed second edition of his Illus-trations. For some time before his death liesuffered much from a severe attack of disease inthe bladder, which occasionally interrupted hisliterary labours, and of which at last he died onthe morning of July 19, 1819, in the 72d year ofhis age. A monument has been erected to hismemory on the Calton Hill, Edinburgh. His por-trait is subjoined:. His works are. Elements of Geometry, containing the first six books <MEuclid, with two books on the Geometry of Solids: to whichare added, Elements of Plain and Spherical 1794, 8vo. Numerous editions. Illustrations of the Huttonian Theory of the Earth. Edin1802, 8vo. A Letter to the Author of the Examination of ProfessoiStewarts Statement. 1806, 8vo. Outlines of Natural Philosophy, being Heads of Lecturesdelivered in the University of Edinburgh. Edin. 1812, 1816,2 vols. 8vo. On the Arithmetic of Impossible Quantities. Phil. , Abr. xiv. 356. An Account of a Lithological Survey of Schichallion, madein order to determine the Specific Gravity of the Rocks whichcompose that Mountain. lb. 1811, 347. PLAYFAIR, 296 WILLIAM On the Causes which affect the Accuracy of BarometricalMeasurements. Trans. Soc. Edin. 1786, vol. i. Life of Ma
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