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graduated from Edinburgh and Glasgow is a lengthy one.
The earliest in preserved record were Theodrick Bland, in 1763; Arthur Lee, 1764, and Corbin Griffin, 1765.
Among the subsequent names were those of McClurg, Campbell, Walker.
Ball, Boush, Lyons, Gilliam, Smith, Field, Lewis, McCaw, Minor, Berkeley, Corbin, Brockenbrough, Adams, Greenhow, Archer, Dabney, Banister, and others, endeared to us in the offices of their decendants.
Nor was there deficiency in lights of the law. It may be prler of an Abridgement of the Laws of Virginia, a cogent writer, and an accomplished botanist.
With the luminous names of Bland, Wythe, Nicholas, Henry, Robinson, Lee, Waller, Randolph, Pendleton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Wayles, Page, Corbin, Lyons, Tazewell, Tucker, Cary, Mason, Curle, Ronald, Harrison, and others in succeeding eras you are familiar.
Books were a concomitant in the houses of the planter from an early period.
I have met with many memorials from Virginia libraries of the