Complex sentence: Birlinn--written in St Andrews as Chambers recuperated from a depressive illness, published in 1844--and inverting Hutton's aphorism "no" vestige "of a beginning".
Split into simpler sentences: Birlinn--written in St Andrews as Chambers recuperated from a depressive illness, and published in 1844. Chambers inverted Hutton's aphorism "no" vestige "of a beginning".