with critical observations and biographical notices, by Robert Burns

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APPENDIX
TO VOL. I.
APPENDIX (a.)
AN Account of Jemi Adam, Authoress of the
Ballad " There's nae luck about the House,"
referred td in page 68.
This song, the production of Jean Adam, who
taught a day-school at Crawford's-dyke, in the neigh-
bourhood of Greenock, has been deemed not un-
worthy the pen of the Translator of the Lusiad.
A copy of it, in his own hand-writing, was found
among his MS. after his decease, and appeared in
the last edition of his works, among some original
pieces never before published. As it has been an
uniform principle in making the present Collection
to establish the authenticity of each particular poem,
the Editor of Mr. Mickle's works was consulted re-
specting the grounds of his claim to the song in