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Excerpt from The Life of Sir David Wilkie, Vol. 2 of 3: With His Journals, Tours, and Critical Remarks on Works of Art; And a Selection From His Correspondence So sudden had been the march of Wilkie through the north, or so little had his intention of visiting his native land been spread abroad, that he was gone before it was known he was come; nay, Cupar, which may be called his birthplace, seems to have been ignorant that her most distinguished son was in the land till he had repassed the Forth, and was actually on the banks of the Tweed, and beyond the reach of all personal gratulation. To repair this undesigned neglect, the civic authorities of Cupar hurried the freedom of the little burgh after him to London. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.