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Gentleman's Magazine 1790 p.272
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P.57. The introduction to Clark, "Survey of Lakes," and great part of the work itself, was written by Mr. Is. Rittson, translator of Homer's "Hymn to Venus." Mr. C. (sic) was a schoolmaster at Penrith in a lucrative and respectable situation; but quitting it, went to Edinburgh to study physic under the late Dr. Brown, who came to London, and died about the same time with his pupil.
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