U. U. Club.
_Brydone the Tourist_ (Vol. vii., p. 108.).--A. B. C. inquires the
birthplace of Brydone, "the tourist and author." I presume he refers to
Patrick Brydone, who wrote _Travels in Sicily and Malta_, and who held, I
believe, an appointment under the Commissioners of Stamps, and died about
thirty years ago. Some four-and-twenty years back, I arrived, late in the
evening, at the hospitable cottage of Hogg, the Ettrick Shepherd, at
Altrieve, in the vale of Yarrow. It happened to be, as it often was, too
full of guests to afford me a bed; and I was transferred by my host to the
house of a neighbouring gentleman, where I slept. That gentleman was Mr.
Brydone, of Mount Benger, {164} who I found was a near relative of Brydone
the tourist, whose birthplace was in the Forest of Ettrick.