Note A — MEMOIR OF BEATTIE, BY THE REV. ALEXANDER DYCE.
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"At his leisure hours he cultivated the muses. A journal kept by him, as well as some specimens of his poetry, are still in the possession of his descendants. This last circumstance is the more worthy of being noticed, as it proves that Dr. Beattie derived his poetical turn from his father."—Bower's Life of Beattie, 1804, p. 2.