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fiery oratory; and to succeeding times it will
preserve a vivid ?representation of one who,
apart from all his other claims to such commemoration,
was universally recognised as one
of the most striking, poetic, and noble-looking men
of his time.?
About the same period there was inaugurated at
erected by the late Lord Murray, a descendant and
representative of Ramsay?s. It rises from a pedestal,
containing on its principal side a medallion
portrait of Lord Murray, and on the reverse side
one of General Ramsay (Allan?s grandson), on the
west one of Mrs. Ramsay, and on the east similar
representations of the general?s two daughters,
DEAN RAMSAY. (From a Photpajh by/& Mofld.)
the eastern corner of the West Gardens a white
marble statue of Allan Ramsay. A memorial
of the poet was suggested in the Sots Magazine
as far back as 1810, and an obelisk to his memory,
known as the Ramsay monument, was erected near
Pennicuick, nearly a century before that time.
The marble statue is from the studio of Sir John
Steel, and rather grotesquely represents the poet
with the silk nightcap worn by gentlemen of his
time as a temporary substitute for the wig, and was
Lady Campbell and Mrs. Malcolm. ?Thus we
find,? says Chambers, ?? owing to the esteem which
genius ever commands, the poet of the Genfle
Shepherd in the immortality of marble, surrounded
by the figures of relatives and descendants who so
acknowledged their aristocratic rank to be inferior
to his, derived from mind alone.?
Next in order was erected, in ~ 8 7 7 , the statue to
the late Adam Black, the eminent publisher, who
represented the city in Parliament, held many
