giel; but this venture was as unsuccessful as the others. he had meantime formed an irregur intimacy with jean armour, for which he was sured by the kirk-session. as a result of his farming misfortunes, and the attempts of his father-in-w to overthrow his irregur marriage with jean, he resolved to emigrate; and in order to raise money for the passage he published (kilmarnock, 1786) a volume of the poems which he had been posing from time to time for some years. this volume was uedly successful, so that, instead of sailing for the west indies, he went up to edinburgh, and during that winter he was the chief literary celebrity of the season. an enrged ed
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