The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer / With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
James Beattie, the author of the Minstrel was born at Laurencekirk, in the county of Kincardineshire—a village situated in that beautiful trough of land called the Howe of the Mearns, and surmounted by the ridge of the Garvock Hills, which divide it from the German Ocean—on the 25th day of October 1735