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  • Candles, 4.
  • Canning, George, 117.
  • Carlisle, fifth Earl of, 26.
  • Carberry Hill, 69.
  • Carlyle, Rev. Dr. Alexander, 43, 65, 69, 265, 297-9, 303.
  • Carlyle, Jane Welsh, 96, 118.
  • Carlyle, Thomas, 39, 52, 68, 79, 86, 88,89, 202, 291.
  • Caroline, Queen, 48.
  • Cathedrals, 133.
  • Caves, 205-6, 226.
  • Cawdor, 135-142.
  • Cawdor, Earl of, 141.
  • Chamberlain, 251.
  • Chambers, Sir Robert, 68.
  • Chambers, Dr. Robert, 97, 236, 269, 293.
  • Chambers, William, 77.
  • Change-house, 219.
  • Chapels, 118.
  • Charles I., 278, 280.
  • Charles II., 250.
  • Charles Edward, Prince, the Young Pretender, 53, 64, 119-20, 179, 182-84, 206, 269.
  • Charlotte, Queen, 77.
  • Chatham, Earl of, 64, 171, 231.
  • Chesterfield, Earl of, 15, n. 3, 274, n. 1.
  • Chrystal, Rev. Dr. James, 288, 290.
  • Churches, 43, 81, 108, 176.
  • Civility, 19.
  • Clan feeling, 259.
  • Clarke, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 19.
  • Climate, 20, 30.
  • Clow, Professor, 57;
  • St. Giles, 81;
  • St. John’s Street, 113;
  • Stage-coaches, 60, 123 n. 4, 264;
  • Sunday, 53;
  • suppers, 65;
  • Tolbooth, 53, 78;
  • University, 58, 83;
  • Weigh House, 78;
  • White Horse Inn, 68-72;
  • workhouse, 43, 85.
  • Edwards, Oliver, 196.
  • Eglinton, Earl of, 35.
  • Eglintoune, Dowager Countess of, 268-70.
  • Eilan Donan Castle, 158.
  • Eldon, Earl of, 304.
  • Eldon, Countess of, 190, 304.
  • Elgin, 36, 130-4.
  • Elibank, Patrick, Lord, 42, 65, 74, 75, 85, 297-302.
  • Ellon, 124.
  • Emigration, 162, 176.
  • Epictetus, 214.
  • Errol, Earl of, 49, 124-27.
  • Erse, 135, 147, 218, 266.
  • Erskine, Hon. Andrew, 277.
  • Erskine, Hon. Henry, 78.
  • Erskine, John, 55 n. 1.
  • Eton, 294.
  • Executions, 53.
  • Fairbairn, James, 304.
  • Faochag, 160.
  • Farming, 32, 34.
  • Farms, small, 112.
  • Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 9, 63, 65.
  • Ferneley, 206.
  • Fielding, Sir John, 54.
  • Findlater, Lord, 130.
  • Firth of Tay, 104.
  • Fleet Street, 275, 286.
  • Foote, Samuel, 111.
  • Forbes, Sir William, 76.
  • Fore-stairs, 115;
  • their brutality, 293.
  • Kames, Lord (Henry Home), 34, 41, 43, 62, 66, 80, 274.
  • Kangaroos, 137.
  • Keith, ——, 66.
  • Kerr, Lord Mark, 123.
  • Kerrera, 242.
  • Kilarow, 235.
  • Kilmarnock, 271.
  • Kilmarnock, Earl of, 126.
  • Kincardine, Countess of, 272.
  • Kinghorn, 86-7.
  • Kingsburgh, 181.
  • Kinnoul, Earl of, 228.
  • Kirkaldy, 87-8.
  • Knives and forks, 43, 252.
  • Knox, John (the reformer), 16, 81, 94, 95-6.
  • Knox, John, the traveller, 9, 45, 148, 161, 165, 187, 189, 204, 209, 243, 263.
  • Lady, title of, 189.
  • Land, 74, n. 2.
  • Lauderdale, Earl of, 49.
  • Laurencekirk, 109.
  • Leach, ——, 25.
  • Leechman, Principal, 266.
  • Leuchars, 103.
  • Leven, Earl of, 49.
  • Lewis, Island of, 182-3.
  • Libraries, 84, 100.
  • Lichfield, 91, 133, 220.
  • Linlithgow, 171.
  • Lismore, 11.
  • Loch Awe, 141, 245.
  • Loch Bracadale, 204, 206.
  • Loch Buie, 5, 233-242.
  • Loch Duich, 2, 163.
  • Loch Follart, 185.
  • Loch Fyne, 247, 298.
  • More, Hannah, 111.
  • Moy, 233.
  • Mull, 6, 218-20, 227, 231-42.
  • Murdoch, William, 289.
  • Murray, Dr. James A. H., 118.
  • Murison, Rev. Dr., 100.
  • Muthill, 119.
  • Nairn, 134.
  • Nairne, Colonel, 101.
  • Nairne, Lord, 101.
  • Nairne, William (Lord Dunsinan), 85.
  • Napkins, 252.
  • Neat, 45, 108, 291.
  • New Hailes, 2, 291-7.
  • Newcastle, first Duke of, 274.
  • Newcastle Fly, 59.
  • Nivernois, Duke de, 66.
  • Nonjurors, 119.
  • Northcote, James, 123.
  • Northumberland, 109.
  • Oats, 42, 242, 257.
  • Oban, 242-44.
  • Ochiltree, 288.
  • Ogden, Rev. Dr. Samuel, 75.
  • Oglethorpe, General, 49, n. 2.
  • Old Mortality, 289.
  • Omai, 112.
  • Ormond, Duke of, 158.
  • Ossian, 18, 20, 294.
  • Ostig, 213.
  • Otaheite, 261.
  • Oxford, 98, 100, 117, 266, 304.
  • Paoli, Pascal, 74, 278-80, 287.
  • Patriarchal life, 177.
  • Patronage, 90.
  • Paufer, Thomas, 130.
  • Paul, Sir G. O., 221.
  • Peasants, 33, 34, 40-43, 112.
  • Pembroke College, Oxford, 97.
  • Penance rings, 137.
  • Pennant, Thomas, 24, 28, 226.
  • Stairs, Earl of, 296.
  • State of nature, 260.
  • Steamboats, 256.
  • Stewart, Lady Henrietta, 142.
  • Stockdale, Rev. Percival, 98.
  • Stone, Jerome, 101.
  • Strahan, George, 186.
  • Strahan, William, 14, 59.
  • Streatham, 176, 276.
  • Strolimus, 212.
  • Struan, 205.
  • Stuart, James, of Dunearn, 284.
  • Stuckgown, 256.
  • Sugar-tongs, 6.
  • Supper-parties, 65.
  • Swift, Jonathan, 82, 189, 191.
  • Tait, John, 264.
  • Talisker, 206-11.
  • Tarbet, 253, 255-57.
  • Tay Bridge, 240.
  • Taylor, Rev. Dr., 305.
  • Temple, Sir William, 61, 272.
  • Temple, Rev. W. J., 267.
  • Tennyson, Lord, 249, 294.
  • Thomson, James, 57, 63.
  • Thrale, Mrs., 1, 23, 168, 199, 292.
  • Thrale, Miss, 156, 224.
  • Tobermory, 216-18.
  • Toland, John, 175.
  • Toll-gates, 87.
  • Topham, Edward, 9, 42, 47, 50, 182, 261.
  • Towns, their oddness, 51.
  • Tranent, 69.
  • Transportation, 116.
  • Trapaud, Governor, 161.
  • Trees, 16, 32-4, 149, 190, 227, 232, 249, 275, 288, 296, 302.
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    FOOTNOTES:

    [1] John Knox’s Tour through the Highlands, pp. 77, 132.

    [2] Croker’s Boswell, p. 314.

    [3] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 33; Croker’s Boswell, p. 409.

    [4] Johnson’s Works, ix. 36.

    [5] Johnson calls this mountain “Ratiken;” Boswell, “the Rattakin.” It is known as Mam-Rattachan. Mam signifies a mountain pass or chasm. See Blackie’s Etymological Geography (ed. 1875), p. 112.

    [6] Johnson’s Works, ix. 63.

    [7] “The peats at Dunvegan, which were damp, Dr. Johnson called ‘a sullen fuel.’ Here a Scottish phrase was singularly applied to him. One of the company having remarked that he had gone out on a stormy evening, and brought in a supply of peats from the stack, old Mr. M’Sweyn said, ‘that was main honest.’”—Boswell’s Johnson, v. 303.

    [8] See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 214, for Boswell’s account.

    [9] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 258.

    [10] My informant placed the scene of this story at the house of a Captain or Colonel Campbell in Mull. There was a Mr. Campbell, one of the Duke of Argyle’s tacksmen, or chief tenants, in that island, who furnished Boswell and Johnson with horses; but it is not mentioned that they went to his house—they certainly did not pass a night there. See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 332, 340.

    [11] Johnson’s Works, ix. 142.

    [12] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 341.

    [13] See Les Confessions, bk. iii.

    [14] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 256.

    [15] Piozzi Letters, i. 138.

    [16] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 337.

    [17] See Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 56, 114, 132.

    [18] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 20.

    [19] Scots Magazine, 1773, p. 133.

    [20] Ib. 1784, p. 685.

    [21] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 406.

    [22] Ib. ii. 305-6.

    [23] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 34.

    [24] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.

    [25] Ib. ii. 303-5.

    [26] Letters from Edinburgh, 1774-5, London, 1776, published without a name, but written by Captain Edward Topham, pp. 137-140. Arnot, in his History of Edinburgh, p. 361, after ridiculing Topham’s statement, that golf is played on the top of Arthur’s Seat, continues: “These letters are written with spirit and impartiality. But the facts and criticisms contained in them are for the most part equally ill-founded. Yet so candid is the author amidst his errors, that it is hard to say whether he is more erroneous when he speaks in praise or censure of the Scottish nation.” It is possible and perhaps probable that he has exaggerated the ill-will against Johnson. The passage which he puts in quotation marks is not in the Journey.

    [27] Knox’s Tour, p. lxvii.

    [28] Burton’s Life of Hume, ii. 31.

    [29] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 396.

    [30] Walpole’s Journal of the Reign of George III. (ed. 1859), ii. 17, 483.

    [31] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 307.

    [32] Johnson’s Works, ix. 19.

    [33] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 308.

    [34] Macaulay’s Miscellaneous Writings, ed. 1871, p. 390.

    [35] Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides, pp. 263-7.

    [36] Remarks on Dr. Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides, p. 270.

    [37] Johnson’s Works, ix. 8.

    [38] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 71.

    [39] M’Nicol, p. 287.

    [40] Piozzi Letters, i. 114.

    [41] M’Nicol, p. 273.

    [42] See ante, p. 5.

    [43] M’Nicol, p. 266.

    [44] Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 183.

    [45] Ib. ii. 435, n. 1, and Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 218.

    [46] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.

    [47] Ib. ii. 301.

    [48] Ib. v. 20.

    [49] Ib. ii. 307.

    [50] Ib. ii. 296.

    [51] Works, ix. 158.

    [52] Ib. p. 154.

    [53] Ib. p. 116.

    [54] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 128.

    [55] Ib. v. 248.

    [56] Works, ix. 24. Hottentot—“a respectable Hottentot”—was the term which for more than a hundred years was supposed to have been applied to Johnson by Lord Chesterfield. I have proved, however, that it was not Johnson, but the first Lord Lyttelton who was meant. See my Dr. Johnson: His Friends and his Critics, p. 214, and my edition of Boswell’s Johnson, i. 267.

    [57] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 217.

    [58] Works, ix. 76.

    [59] Ib. p. 86.

    [60] Works, ix. 86.

    [61] Ib.

    [62] Ib. p. 112.

    [63] Ib. p. 47.

    [64] Ib. p. 115.

    [65] Ib. p. 3. Johnson, it should be remarked, does not write “the ruffians of the Reformation.” He uses the word as South does, when he speaks of “those times which had reformed so many churches to the ground” (South’s Sermons, ed. 1823, i. 173). No man upheld the Reformed Church of England more strongly than South.

    [66] Works, ix. 6.

    [67] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 61.

    [68] Works, ix. 61.

    [69] Ib. p. 4.

    [70] Ib. p. 7.

    [71] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 306.

    [72] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 74. He repeats this statement five years later (Ib. p. 207).

    [73] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 290.

    [74] Works, ix. 161.

    [75] Ib. p. 159.

    [76] Ib. p. 1.

    [77] Ib. p. 3.

    [78] Works, p. 11.

    [79] Works, p. 14.

    [80] Ib. p. 10.

    [81] Ib. pp. 30, 159.

    [82] Ib. p. 102.

    [83] Ib. p. 54.

    [84] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 288.

    [85] Works, ix. 118.

    [86] Ib. p. 25.

    [87] Ib. p. 32.

    [88] Ib. pp. 50, 97.

    [89] Ib. p. 62.

    [90] Ib. p. 67.

    [91] Works, p. 63.

    [92] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 318.

    [93] Ib. iii. 236.

    [94] Works, ix. 19, 51.

    [95] Ib. p. 52.

    [96] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 146.

    [97] Piozzi Letters, i. 137.

    [98] Ib. pp. 127, 165.

    [99] Ib. p. 182.

    [100] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 262.

    [101] Ib. v. 283.

    [102] Piozzi Letters, i. 167.

    [103] Works, ix. 117.

    [104] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 283, n. 1.

    [105] Francis’s Horace, Odes, IV. ix. 26.

    [106] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 14.

    [107] From the original, in the possession of Mr. W. R. Smith, of Greatham Moor, West Liss.

    [108] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 344.

    [109] Ib. 392.

    [110] “Through various hazards and events we move.” Dryden, Æneid, i. 204.

    [111] “Long labours both by sea and land he bore.” Ib. i. 3.

    [112] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 268.

    [113] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 450.

    [114] Ib.

    [115] He was sixty-four.

    [116] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 278.

    [117] Piozzi Letters, i. 158.

    [118] Ib. i. 120.

    [119] Ib. i. 188.

    [120] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 324.

    [121] Ib. iv. 199.

    [122] Ib. v. 377.

    [123] Tour in Scotland (ed. 1776), ii. 59. The Bruar is near Blair-Athole.

    [124] Johnson’s Works, ix. 84.

    [125] Troil’s Letters on Iceland (3rd ed.), p. 288. There is a notice of the discovery in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1772, p. 540, and in the Annual Register for the same year, i. 139.

    [126] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 348.

    [127] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 233.

    [128] He was stationed there with his regiment. Wright’s Life of General Wolfe, p. 271.

    [129] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 141.

    [130] Ib. iii. 303.

    [131] Gray’s Works, iv. 57.

    [132] Ib. ii. 78.

    [133] George Selwyn and his Contemporaries, ii. 319.

    [134] Camden’s Description of Scotland (ed. 1695), p. 137.

    [135] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, ii. 339.

    [136] Ib. p. 13.

    [137] James Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1747 (ed. 1752), pp. 365, 383.

    [138] Gray’s Works, iv. 150.

    [139] Walpole’s Letters, v. 501.

    [140] An Excursion to the Lakes, p. 157.

    [141] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 336, 465.

    [142] Tour in Scotland, i. 222.

    [143] Beattie’s Essays on Poetry and Music, p. 169.

    [144] Voyage en Angleterre, etc., ii. 201.

    [145] Piozzi Letters, i. 154, and Boswell’s Johnson, v. 231.

    [146] Croker’s Boswell (ed. 1835), iv. 327.

    [147] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 302.

    [148] Johnson’s Works, ix. 25.

    [149] Piozzi Letters, i. 138.

    [150] Works, ix. 78, 153.

    [151] Ib. p. 153.

    [152] Ib. p. 156.

    [153] Ib. p. 150.

    [154] Ib. p. 35.

    [155] Piozzi Letters, i. 135.

    [156] Works, ix. 73.

    [157] Ib. p. 156.

    [158] Piozzi Letters, i. 169.

    [159] Works, ix. 25.

    [160] Ib. p. 36.

    [161] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iii. 239.

    [162] Goldsmith’s Traveller, l. 319.

    [163] Wordsworth’s Works, ii. 284.

    [164] The Traveller, l. 125.

    [165] Wordsworth’s Works, iv. 99.

    [166] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 99.

    [167] Kames’ Sketches of the History of Man, i. 274.

    [168] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 77. The superiority of the gardeners was most likely due to the superiority of the education of the poorer classes.

    [169] Ib. ii. 78.

    [170] W. Gilpin’s Observations relative to Picturesque Beauty in the year 1776, i. 117, 123, 141.

    [171] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 248.

    [172] Forster’s Life of Goldsmith, i. 433.

    [173] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1754, p. 119.

    [174] Knox’s Tour through the Highlands of Scotland, p. 5.

    [175] Piozzi Letters, i. 120.

    [176] Works, ix. 17.

    [177] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 120.

    [178] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 230.

    [179] Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey, i. 348.

    [180] Gray’s Works, iv. 59.

    [181] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 21.

    [182] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 15.

    [183] Scots Magazine, 1772, p. 25.

    [184] Croker’s Boswell (8vo. ed.), p. 285.

    [185] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 34.

    [186] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 319.

    [187] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 366.

    [188] Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, i. 112.

    [189] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, ii. 212, 227, 228, 231, 272, 277.

    [190] Johnson’s Works, ix. 121.

    [191] Wealth of Nations, i. 309.

    [192] Piozzi Letters, i. 116.

    [193] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 138.

    [194] Piozzi Letters, i. 121.

    [195] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 347.

    [196] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 229.

    [197] Humphry Clinker, ii. 233.

    [198] E. D. Dunbar’s Social Life, ii. 147.

    [199] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, vol. iii. p. 6.

    [200] Humphry Clinker, ii. 212.

    [201] Ib.

    [202] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain, vol. iii. p. vii.

    [203] The Present State of Scotland, pp. 39, 42, 112, 114, 119.

    [204] A Journey through part of England and Scotland with the Army. By a Volunteer. P. 53.

    [205] Scots Magazine, 1772, p. 24.

    [206] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 40.

    [207] Memoirs of the Reign of George III., iv. 328.

    [208] Humphry Clinker, ii. 176. See my edition of Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 56-64, for the violence of feeling between the English and Scotch at this time.

    [209] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 425.

    [210] Works, ix. 158.

    [211] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 248.

    [212] Works, ix. 24.

    [213] Smollett’s History of England, ii. 99.

    [214] Humphry Clinker, iii. 7.

    [215] Wealth of Nations, i. 308.

    [216] Hume’s History of England, vii. 438.

    [217] Past and Present (ed. 1858), p. 80.

    [218] Works, ix. 23.

    [219] Humphry Clinker, iii. 83.

    [220] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 13.

    [221] Ib. p. 272.

    [222] Ib. iv. 229.

    [223] Ib. ii. 412.

    [224] Ib. iii. 179.

    [225] Humphry Clinker, iii. 44.

    [226] Ib. iii. 83.

    [227] Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man, ii. 333.

    [228] Wealth of Nations, i. 222.

    [229] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 276.

    [230] Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man, i. 265.

    [231] Humphry Clinker, ii. 213.

    [232] Letters from Edinburgh, pp. 279, 361.

    [233] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1766, p. 209.

    [234] Wealth of Nations, i. 100. See also Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 557, and Knox’s Tour, p. cxviii.

    [235] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh (ed. 1779), p. 353.

    [236] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 294, n. 8.

    [237] Johnson’s Works, ix. 9.

    [238] Humphry Clinker (ed. 1792), iii. 5.

    [239] Scots Magazine, 1772, p. 636, and 1773, p. 399.

    [240] Humphry Clinker, iii. 5.

    [241] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 64.

    [242] Kames’s Sketches of the History of Man (ed. 1807), i. 507.

    [243] London Magazine for 1778, p. 198.

    [244] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 64. George Drummond of Blair, of whom this story is told, did not succeed to his estate till 1739 (ib. p. 112), so that this rude mode of eating came down nearly to the date of Johnson’s visit, even in the houses of gentlemen. In the houses of “the substantial tenants” it continued till much later (ib. p. 64).

    [245] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 418.

    [246] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 70, 71, 251.

    [247] Humphry Clinker, iii. 28.

    [248] Knox’s Tour, p. 199.

    [249] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 65.

    [250] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 543.

    [251] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 172. There are inns in the Hebrides where the same deficiency is still found.

    [252] Gray calls Geneva “neat,” and the repast which was set before him at the “Grande Chartreuse” “extremely neat.” Gray’s Works, ed. 1858, ii. 62, 63.

    [253] Humphry Clinker, ii. 221, and Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 241.

    [254] Reekiana, by Robert Chambers, p. 227: “The house was situated at the head of Dickson’s Close, a few doors below Niddry Street.” I have found all these names, except Stirling’s, in the recent interesting reprint of the Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4, published by William Brown, Edinburgh, 1889.

    [255] “Stenchel. An iron bar for a window.” Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary.

    [256] Tirlesing is not given by Jamieson.

    [257] The City Cleaned and Country Improven, Edinburgh, 1760, p. 5.

    [258] The City Cleaned and Country Improven, pp. 6, 8.

    [259] Humphry Clinker, ii. 227. Gardy loo is a corruption of gardez l’eau, a cry which, like so many other Scotch customs and words, bears witness to the close connection which of old existed between Scotland and France.

    [260] Burt’s Letters from a Gentleman, etc., i. 21.

    [261] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 152.

    [262] Humphry Clinker, ii. 221.

    [263] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 54.

    [264] Wright’s Life of General Wolfe, p. 137.

    [265] Gray’s Works, iv. 52.

    [266] Ib. p. 61.

    [267] This arrangement is still not uncommon in country places.

    [268] Johnson’s Works, ix. 18.

    [269] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 306.

    [270] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 141.

    [271] Works, ix. 18.

    [272] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, i. 108.

    [273] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 78. Sheridan, in his Life of Swift, records an earlier abolition of vails in Ireland (Swift’s Works, ii. 108).

    [274] Thicknesse’s Observations on the Customs and Manners of the French, 1766, p. 106.

    [275] Lord Hervey’s Memoirs, ii. 50.

    [276] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 376.

    [277] Edinburgh Chronicle for 1760, p. 495.

    [278] Ib. pp. 503, 518, 583, 623. The Scots Hunters were, I suppose, the same as the Royal Hunters—a body of gentlemen volunteers who were raised at the time of the Rebellion of 1745, and served under General Oglethorpe.

    [279] Walpole’s Memoirs of the Reign of George III., ii. 3, and Letters of the First Earl of Malmesbury, i. 108-9.

    [280] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 452.

    [281] Wesley’s Journal, ii. 228, 285.

    [282] Present State of Polite Learning, ch. xii.

    [283] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 658.

    [284] Ib. pp. 352-4.

    [285] Humphry Clinker, ii. 214.

    [286] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 18.

    [287] “The Pleasance consists of one mean street; through it lies the principal road to London.”—Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 328.

    [288] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 353.

    [289] Voyage en Angleterre, etc., i. 200, 229, ii. 309.

    [290] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 23.

    [291] Piozzi Letters, i. 109.

    [292] Works, ix. 18.

    [293] Wesley’s Journal, ii. 228.

    [294] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain; Account of Scotland (ed. 1727), iii. 29, 30, 33.

    [295] J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 65.

    [296] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 8.

    [297] Humphry Clinker, ii. 220.

    [298] Tour in Scotland, i. 52.

    [299] Carlyle’s Reminiscences, ii. 5.

    [300] See Marmion, note in the Appendix on Canto V., Stanza 25.

    [301] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 28.

    [302] Guy Mannering, ii. 101.

    [303] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 233. The young Englishman, perhaps, in this account does not aim at the strictest accuracy. The large prayer-books were, I suppose, psalm-books or Bibles.

    [304] “To go up streets” is an Edinburgh phrase for “to go up the street.”—Scotticisms by Dr. Beattie (published anonymously), p. 82.

    [305] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 223. I assume that “the Prince’s colours” mentioned by Arnot was the flag described in Waverley, ii. 139.

    [306] Letters from Edinburgh, pp. 58-62.

    [307] According to Arnot, for many years preceding 1763, the average number of executions for the whole of Scotland was only three. There were four succeeding years in which the punishment of death was not once inflicted. By 1783, however, the English severity seems to have crept in, for in that year, in Edinburgh alone, in one week there were six criminals under sentence of death.—History of Edinburgh, p. 670.

    [308] The guard consisted of seventy-five private men.—Ib. p. 506.

    [309] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, pp. 502, 658, and Letters from Edinburgh, pp. 355-60. By the year 1783, says Arnot, in his second edition, p. 658, their number and their character had greatly sunk. See also Humphry Clinker, ii. 240.

    [310] Scots Magazine for 1772, p. 636.

    [311] John Erskine, quoted in Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, vol. i. app. x. p. 74, and in Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 299.

    [312] Howard’s State of the Prisons, p. 17.

    [313] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 300.

    [314] Wesley’s Journal, vol. iv. p. 17.

    [315] Croker’s Boswell, p. 387.

    [316] Scots Magazine for 1769, p. 110; The Speeches in the Douglas Cause (most likely Boswell), p. 391; and Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 230.

    [317] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, vol. i. p. 173.

    [318] Ruskin’s Lectures on Architecture and Painting, p. 2.

    [319] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 360, v. 68.

    [320] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 12.

    [321] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 653.

    [322] Cockburn’s Memorials of his Time, p. 183.

    [323] Scots Magazine for 1768, p. 115.

    [324] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 314.

    [325] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 654, and W. Creech’s Letters to Sir John Sinclair, p. 9. Creech gives the number of cartloads at eighteen hundred.

    [326] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, and Francis Douglas’s General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, 1782, p. 9.

    [327] Burton’s Life of Hume, ii. 458.

    [328] Ib. ii. 462.

    [329] Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, p. 227.

    [330] Early Life of Samuel Rogers, p. 92.

    [331] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 157.

    [332] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 265.

    [333] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 320.

    [334] Mostyn Armstrong’s Survey of the Post Roads, etc., in 1777 (ed. 1783), p. 6; and Twiss’ Life of Lord Eldon, i. 39.

    [335] It was three hours longer on the return journey from Edinburgh to London.—Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 539.

    [336] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1746, p. 209.

    [337] Redgauntlet (ed. 1860), ii. 77.

    [338] W. Creech’s Letters to Sir John Sinclair, p. 11.

    [339] Paterson’s British Itinerary, ii. 602.

    [340] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 157.

    [341] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 57, n. 3. See also ib. pp. 58, 80. Johnson’s Works, ix. 157, and Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, i. 5.

    [342] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1766, p. 167.

    [343] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 363, n. 3.

    [344] In the speech which he made in 1824 on the opening of the New Edinburgh Academy.—Lockhart’s Life of Scott, vii. 271.

    [345] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 437.

    [346] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 437, ii. 272, and Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 275.

    [347] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 257.

    [348] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 169.

    [349] Johnson’s Works, viii. 464.

    [350] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., ii. 63.

    [351] Forbes’ Life of Beattie, p. 243.

    [352] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 55.

    [353] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 6.

    [354] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., i. 211, ii. 544; and Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, ii. 240.

    [355] Scotland and Scotsmen, etc., i. 167-170, ii. 543.

    [356] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 159. Lord Jeffrey was accused “of having lost the broad Scotch at Oxford, and of having gained only the narrow English.”—Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, i. 46.

    [357] Works, ix. 159.

    [358] Piozzi Letters, i. 109.

    [359] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 159.

    [360] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 155.

    [361] Ib. pp. xxx. 15.

    [362] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 98.

    [363] The Author’s Earnest Cry and Prayer.

    [364] Walpole’s Reign of George II., iii. 280.

    [365] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, pp. 399, 419.

    [366] Andrew Henderson’s Consideration on the Scots Militia (ed. 1761), p. 26.

    [367] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 1.

    [368] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 431. See also Annual Register for 1776, i. 140.

    [369] Dodsley’s London and its Environs, iii. 124, and Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 330.

    [370] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 598.

    [371] Ib. p. 662.

    [372] For a penny a cadie was obliged to carry a letter to the remotest part of the town.

    [373] Dr. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 275.

    [374] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1766, p. 168.

    [375] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 66.

    [376] Knox’s Tour, p. 9.

    [377] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 203.

    [378] This house for many years—not much less than seventy, I was told—has been occupied as a tailor’s shop. By the kindness of the heads of the firm, Messrs. Lauder and Hardie, I was shown over the building. Though it has been a good deal altered for the purposes of business it is still substantially the same solid stone house which Hume in his prosperity built for the closing years of his life. The rooms are lofty, being about fourteen feet high. The kitchen and the cellars were evidently contrived for a man who intended to boast with justice of his dinners and his wine. From the windows of every floor there must have been an uninterrupted view of the shores of Fife, across the Firth of Forth, and of the house in Kirkaldy, where Adam Smith was living.

    [379] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 441.

    [380] Ib. iii. 381.

    [381] Eight days is, I suppose, one of Hume’s Gallicisms.

    [382] Letters of Hume to Strahan, p. 116.

    [383] Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, ii. 110.

    [384] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 151.

    [385] Dr. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 276.

    [386] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. xl.

    [387] If we can trust the description of one of Hume’s autograph letters (No. 1105) in Messrs. Puttick and Simpson’s catalogue for July 30, 1886, Johnson was once Hume’s guest. The compilers of auction catalogues, however, are not infallible as editors, and often make strange mistakes.

    [388] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 453.

    [389] The charge for a chaise and pair was ninepence a mile; in some districts more. There was a duty on each horse of one penny per mile. The driver expected a shilling or eighteen pence for each stage of ten or twelve miles, and always found good reasons for asking for more. The tolls paid at the turnpikes amounted to a considerable sum in a long journey. The duty was subsequently increased. See Mostyn Armstrong’s Actual Survey, etc., p. 4, and Paterson’s British Itinerary, vol. i. preface, p. vii.

    [390] See the Table of Weather in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1774, p. 290.

    [391] Dr. Alexander Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 137. The tree still remains the solitary memorial of the fight.

    [392] It was not till 1799 that by 39 Geo. III. c. 56, they were declared free. Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 78, and Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 202, n. 1.

    [393] Dodsley’s London and its Environs, vi. 316. In March, 1747, one Mr. Williams, master of the White Horse Inn, Piccadilly, was kicked out of a feast of the Independent Electors of Westminster, because he was discovered to be taking notes of some Jacobite toasts. Gentleman’s Magazine for 1747, p. 151.

    [394] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 190.

    [395] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 544.

    [396] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 543.

    [397] J. and H.’s Storer’s Descriptions of Edinburgh. Dr. Chambers, in his Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 187, says that “the date is deficient in the decimal figure 16—3.”

    [398] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo. ed. p. 270.

    [399] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 191. Perhaps this was Jeremy Bentham’s father, who two years earlier had married for the second time: what was his wife’s Christian name I have not been able to ascertain. The son did not visit Edinburgh in 1768. Dr. Chambers gives on p. 318 a list of the great people living in the Canongate about the year 1769. According to it there were two dukes, sixteen earls, two countesses, seven barons, seven lords of session, thirteen baronets, and four commanders-in-chief. The Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4 contains, however, the names of only about a dozen peers and peeresses.

    [400] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, ix. 244.

    [401] He died on January 28, 1836.

    [402] Humphry Clinker, ii. 224. Lodging-house keepers are entered in the Edinburgh Directory as Room-Setters and Boarders. Some were both, others only Room-Setters.

    [403] Johnson repeated these lines with great emotion at the excellent inn at Chapel-House in Oxfordshire. Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 452.

    [404] Since writing the above I have learnt with great pleasure that this interesting but ruinous old building will not only be preserved, but preserved to good uses. It has been purchased by Dr. A. H. F. Barbour and his sister Mrs. Whyte, and by them presented to the Edinburgh Social Union. It will be put into a state of thorough repair, and let out to poor tenants on the plan followed by Miss Octavia Hill in London. I am informed that the two sides of the Close had been repaired by the Social Union before my visit, and that the pleasant outside staircases and open galleries which caught my eye were its work.

    [405] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, p. 68.

    [406] Pringle seems to have kept on a house in Edinburgh though he was for the most part living at this time in London. See Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 117.

    [407] The Scotch called each set of rooms on every floor a house, and each block a land. Thus Hume had once lived in Jack’s Land, in the Canongate. A land of thirteen stories, such as was shown to Johnson at the foot of the Post-house Stairs would contain twenty-six houses—two on every floor.

    [408] Marmion. Introduction to Canto iv.

    [409] Mr. Alexander Grieve. I find a bookbinder of the same name living in Bell’s Wynd in 1773. Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4, Appendix, p. 5.

    [410] For my authorities for some of the statements in this note see my Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 116-9.

    [411] See ante, p. 52.

    [412] Heart of Mid-Lothian, ed. 1860, i. 247.

    [413] Redgauntlet, ed. 1860, i. 253.

    [414] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 106, and Heart of Mid-Lothian, ii. 117.

    [415] Lockhart’s Scott, vii. 124.

    [416] Reminiscences, by Thomas Carlyle, ii. 5.

    [417] Cockburn’s Memorials, p. 69.

    [418] Court and City Register for 1769, p. 142.

    [419] From 1808 the judges began to sit in two separate chambers. Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 100, 244.

    [420] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. xxvi.

    [421] Mr. Gladstone restored it in 1885.

    [422] Cockburn’s Life of Lord Jeffrey, i. 182.

    [423] Tour in Scotland, i. 233.

    [424] Humphry Clinker, iii. 5.

    [425] The Tale of a Tub, section xi.

    [426] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 43, and Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 249.

    [427] Chambers, quoted in Croker’s Boswell, p. 276.

    [428] Lockhart’s Scott, iii. 269. The quotation no doubt was, “Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage;” the line with which Scott concluded the brief Appendix to Castle Dangerous.

    [429] Scots Magazine, 1768, p. 113; 1789, pp. 521-5.

    [430] J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 69.

    [431] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 307.

    [432] See p. 52 of this pamphlet. Panado is defined by Johnson as a food made by boiling bread in water.

    [433] Regulations for the Workhouse of Edinburgh, 1750, p. 30.

    [434] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 181.

    [435] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 362.

    [436] An Address to Edinburgh.

    [437] Johnson’s Works, ix. 152.

    [438] Reminiscences, i. 113.

    [439] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 115.

    [440] Humphry Clinker, ii. 249.

    [441] Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1745-6, p. 284.

    [442] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 331.

    [443] Lord Kames’s Sketches, iii. 483.

    [444] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 353, and Boswell’s Johnson, iv. 24, n. 2.

    [445] Reminiscences, i. 102-4.

    [446] Saint-Fond’s Voyage, &c., ii. 253.

    [447] Burnet’s History of His Own Time, ed. 1818, ii. 82. Balfour of Burley, the leader, is known to the readers of Old Mortality.

    [448] Lockhart’s Scott, i. 72.

    [449] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 83.

    [450] Early Letters of Thomas Carlyle, ed. 1886, i. 187.

    [451] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 87.

    [452] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.

    [453] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 268. The popular rector was Archibald Campbell, the victim of the Rev. Dr. Innes’s literary fraud described in Boswell’s Johnson, i. 360, and the father of “Lexiphanes.” Ib. ii. 44.

    [454] St. Andrew’s As it was and as it is, p. 161.

    [455] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, i. 175.

    [456] Humphry Clinker, ii. 246.

    [457] Tour in Scotland, ii. 189. The population he estimated at about two thousand. Ib. p. 196.

    [458] Poems of G. M. Berkeley, Preface, p. lxi.

    [459] Ib. p. lxii.

    [460] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., ii. 238.

    [461] My informant is Dr. John Paterson, of Clifton Bank, St. Andrews, to whose extensive knowledge as a local antiquary and most friendly assistance I am indebted.

    [462] Froude’s History of England, ed. 1870, vi. 233.

    [463] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 397.

    [464] Translated by Boswell:

    “Let youth in deeds, in counsel man engage;
    Prayer is the proper duty of old age.”

    [465] Her descent from Knox is not fully established, though, says Carlyle, “there is really good likelihood of the genealogy.” Reminiscences by Thomas Carlyle, ii. 103.

    [466] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, ix. 126.

    [467] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., ii. 232.

    [468] Macky’s Journey through Scotland, p. 93.

    [469] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ii. 197.

    [470] Stockdale’s Memoirs, i. 238.

    [471] Boswell’s Johnson, vi. xxx.

    [472] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxcvi.

    [473] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 208.

    [474] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxlix.

    [475] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.

    [476] Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 154. Defoe calls it St. Salvadore’s, and wonders “how it was made to speak Portuguese.” Boswell gives it the same name, though he spells it differently—St. Salvador’s. By 1807 I find it called in Grierson’s Delineations of St. Andrews, as it is at present, St. Salvator’s.

    [477] St. Andrews as it was and as it is, p. 157.

    [478] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.

    [479] Berkeley and his friend, the young Laird of Kincaldrum, raised “a very noble subscription” for the poor lad.

    [480] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cccxlviii.

    [481] “On my observing to Dr. Johnson that some of the modern libraries of the university were more commodious and pleasant for study (than the library of Trinity College), as being more spacious and airy, he replied, ‘Sir, if a man has a mind to prance, he must study at Christ Church and All Souls.’” Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 67, n. 2.

    [482] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 269, 547. The youngster was Jerome Stone, the author of a poem called Albin and the Daughter of Mey, mentioned by Boswell in his Life of Johnson, v. 171.

    [483] It was probably a sycamore, for, as was pointed out by a writer in the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1837, p. 343, what the Scotch call sycamores we call planes.

    [484] The other tree, according to Sir Walter Scott, was probably the Prior Letham plane, measuring about twenty feet round. It stood in a cold exposed situation apart from every other tree. Croker’s Boswell, p. 286.

    [485] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. ccxii.

    [486] This piece of information I owe to the kindness of Mr. J. Maitland Anderson, the Librarian of the University.

    [487] In G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. lvi, a story is told of some people who were at St. Andrews for only one night, and who, rather than miss the ruins, saw them “by the light of an old horn lantern.”

    [488] Written in 1889.

    [489] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 405.

    [490] Paterson’s Itinerary, ii. 567, 581.

    [491] Or Aberbrothock, as it is called in Southey’s Ballad of the Inchcape Bell. The name is now written Arbroath, in accordance with the pronunciation.

    [492] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 397.

    [493] Defoe’s Tour, p. 179.

    [494] James Ray’s History of the Rebellion, p. 288.

    [495] Scots Magazine, 1772, p. 25.

    [496] Pennant’s Tour, ii. 278.

    [497] Chalmers’s Life of Ruddiman, p. 24.

    [498] This information I owe to the kindness of my friend Mr. Arthur Galton.

    [499] Ancient Metaphysics, iv. 45.

    [500] Ib. p. 48.

    [501] Ib. p. 55.

    [502] Hannah More’s Memoirs, i. 252.

    [503] Ancient Metaphysics, vi. 212.

    [504] Origin of Language, v. 274.

    [505] Scots Magazine, 1799, pp. 729-731.

    [506] Ancient Metaphysics, v. 307.

    [507] Croker’s Boswell, p. 288.

    [508] This anecdote I had from Lord Monboddo’s great grandson, Captain Burnett, of Monboddo House, to whose courtesy I am much indebted.

    [509] “In Scotland judges on the circuit are obliged to stay five nights at every town where they open their commission.” Howard’s State of Prisons, ed. 1777, p. 103.

    [510] Scots Magazine, Oct. 1773, 556.

    [511] F. Douglas’s General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, p. 91.

    [512] F. Douglas’s General Description, &c., p. 89.

    [513] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. cclxxiv.

    [514] Vol. ii. p. 99.

    [515] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1766, p. 210.

    [516] Cox’s Recollections of Oxford (ed. 1868), p. 156.

    [517] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 461.

    [518] Pennant’s Tour, i. 121.

    [519] Early Letters of J. W. Carlyle, p. 45.

    [520] A Journey through Part of England, &c., p. 134.

    [521] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 461. The lessons were Numbers xxiii., xxiv., and Matthew i. In these chapters Balak and begat come over and over again.

    [522] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion of 1745 (ed. 1827), ii. 339.

    [523] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 525-8.

    [524] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 227.

    [525] G. M. Berkeley’s Poems, p. dxxxviii.

    [526] Scots Magazine for 1788, pp. 250, 357.

    [527] Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 10.

    [528] A Scotch merk was about thirteen pence of English money.

    [529] Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 7.

    [530] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, p. 160.

    [531] Northcote’s Life of Reynolds (ed. 1819), i. 300.

    [532] Johnson’s Works, viii. 479.

    [533] In 1786 the post despatched from Aberdeen on Monday reached London on Saturday. Travellers could reach Edinburgh in a day and a half by the Aberdeen and Edinburgh Fly, which set out from the New Inn at four o’clock in the morning, and arrived at Edinburgh next day to dinner; fare, £2 2s. Scottish Notes and Queries, i. 31.

    [534] Piozzi Letters, i. 387.

    [535] Ray’s History of the Rebellion, p. 310.

    [536] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 186.

    [537] Bound up with them were some interesting and unpublished autograph letters and documents connected with many generations of the earls of Errol. It is greatly to be desired that the present earl, to whose courtesy I am much indebted, would have them edited.

    [538] Chambers’s History of the Rebellion, ed. 1869, p. 309.

    [539] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, Appendix D. At the time of the rebellion of 1745 the Errol title was held by a woman.

    [540] Walpole’s Letters, iii. 438.

    [541] Forbes’s Life of Beattie, Appendix D.

    [542] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 38.

    [543] Bouilloire. According to Dr. Murray the word is connected with “the Swedish buller, a noise, roar. But,” he adds, “the influence of boil is manifest.” I remember when I visited the place in my youth I heard it also called Lord Errol’s Punch-bowl. The tale was told that a former earl had made a seizure in it of a smuggling ship laden with spirits, and had had the kegs emptied into the water.

    [544] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 188.

    [545] Dun Buy means the Yellow Rock. It gets its name, it is said, from the colour given to it by the dung of the sea-birds.

    [546] James Ray’s History of the Rebellion of 1745, p. 311.

    [547] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.

    [548] This account I owe to the kindness of Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh, of Old Lodge, Elgin, who has copied it from a manuscript in his possession which was written at least as early as the year 1837. To him also I am indebted for the sketch of the old piazzas.

    [549] Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 276.

    [550] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 193.

    [551] The Elgin Courant and Courier, Aug. 23, 1889.

    [552] Walpole’s Letters, vii. 484. It was only one ship that was lost, though in it the lead of two cathedrals was conveyed.

    [553] Boswell’s Johnson, vi. xxxiii.

    [554] The language of the Highlanders is generally called Erse by the English writers of this period; sometimes Irish and Celtic. M’Nicol objected to the term Erse. “The Caledonians,” he says, “always called their native language Gaelic.” Remarks on Johnson’s Journey, p. 432. Macpherson, in the title-page of Ossian, calls it Galic.

    [555] Murray’s Handbook for Scotland, ed. 1867, p. 308.

    [556] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.

    [557] Life of Lord Macaulay, ed. 1877, i. 6.

    [558] Boswell’s Journal, ed. by Carruthers, p. 96.

    [559] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, i. 155.

    [560] Hudibras, iii. 1, 1477.

    [561] Boswell’s Hebrides, ed. by R. Carruthers, p. 85.

    [562] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 178.

    [563] Scots Magazine, 1775, p. 26.

    [564] Johnson’s Works, ix. 86.

    [565] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, i. 24.

    [566] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, 1864, pp. 84-5, 179.

    [567] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1746, p. 263.

    [568] Ib., p. 324.

    [569] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1746, p. 429.

    [570] Michael Hughes’s Plain Narrative of the Rebellion, p. 56.

    [571] Henderson’s History of the Rebellion, p. 117.

    [572] Scots Magazine, 1747, p. 649. According to Smollett the number executed was eighty-one. History of England, ed. 1800, iii. 188.

    [573] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1747, p. 246.

    [574] Marchmont Papers, i. 196.

    [575] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1753, p. 391.

    [576] My informant is the late Rev. Alexander Matheson, minister of Glenshiel.

    [577] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 544.

    [578] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, pp. 182, 195.

    [579] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 181.

    [580] Defoe’s Account of Scotland, p. 196.

    [581] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 177.

    [582] Letters of Horace Walpole, ii. 288.

    [583] M. Hughes’s Plain Narrative, p. 51.

    [584] E. Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 133.

    [585] Ib., p. 89.

    [586] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, i. 164.

    [587] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 88.

    [588] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, i. 196.

    [589] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 275.

    [590] Ray’s History of the Rebellion, p. 362.

    [591] M. Hughes’s Plain Narrative, p. 53. Alps, I suppose, he uses as Milton does for lofty mountains in general.

    [592] In a Survey of the Province of Moray, published at Aberdeen in 1798, on pp. 333-34, the following table is given of the distances along the road which Johnson was following:—“From Inverness to the General’s Hut, 17 miles 6 furlongs. From General’s Hut to Fort Augustus, 14 miles 2 furlongs. From Fort Augustus to Unach [? Anoch], 9 miles. From Unach to Rattachan, 25 miles 5 furlongs. From Rattachan to Bernera, 9 miles.”

    [593] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo, ed. p. 307.

    [594] Walpole’s Letters, v. 501.

    [595] Ray’s History of the Rebellion, p. 325.

    [596] Ib., p. 362.

    [597] I adopt Boswell’s spelling. Johnson calls it Glenmollison. It is now generally written Glenmoriston.

    [598] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 279.

    [599] Henderson’s History of the Rebellion, p. 122.

    [600] Smollett’s History of England, iii. 183.

    [601] He means Mr. and Mrs. Thrale and their eldest daughter.

    [602] Johnson is quoting Parnell’s Hymn to Contentment. Pope, in Donne’s Satires Versified (iv. 185), calls “solitude the nurse of sense.”

    [603] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, ii. 179.

    [604] Johnson calls them pails. In his time pails were only made of wood, if we can trust his definition of the word in his Dictionary.

    [605] J. Knox’s Tour through the Highlands in 1786, p. 255.

    [606] T. Garnett’s Observations, &c., ii. 12.

    [607] W. Sacheverell’s Account of the Isle of Man, &c., p. 128.

    [608] Lay Sermon, ed. 1870, p. 427.

    [609] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 275.

    [610] See ante, p. 2. Boswell calls the mountain Rattakin, Johnson Ratiken. Its name I was told is properly written Rattagan.

    [611] Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 336.

    [612] Ib., p. 345.

    [613] Tour through the Highlands in 1786, pp. cxx, 103. I do not know whether an earlier instance can be found of the expression “notorious job” than the above.

    [614] Boswell calls the place Broadfoot.

    [615] Johnson’s Works, ix. 47.

    [616] The philibeg, or fillibeg, is defined as “the dress or petticoat reaching nearly to the knees.”

    [617] An Act to Amend the Disarming Act of the 19 Geo. II., made in the 21 Geo. II. Edinburgh, 1748, p. 15.

    [618] Henderson’s History of the Rebellion, p. 99.

    [619] Johnson’s Works, ix. 94.

    [620] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, pp. 216-18.

    [621] Humphry Clinker, iii. 20.

    [622] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1782, p. 307.

    [623] Croker’s Boswell, p. 316.

    [624] Martin’s Description of the Western Islands, pp. 206-7.

    [625] Croker’s Boswell, p. 364.

    [626] Gray’s Works, iv. 55.

    [627] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, ii. 142.

    [628] Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 291.

    [629] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 410, 415.

    [630] Page 164.

    [631] Johnson seems to use this word in much the same sense as Caliban does when he speaks of Prospero’s “brave utensils” (The Tempest, act iii. sc. 2). In his Journey, he says that in the Hebrides “they use silver on all occasions where it is common in England, nor did I ever find a spoon of horn but in one house.”

    [632] This was Johnson’s estimate, based on the number of men who took part in the Rebellion of 1745. The population in 1881 was 750.

    [633] Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, ed. 1875, p. 101.

    [634] E. Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 264.

    [635] I am much indebted to Mr. A. E. Stewart, of Raasay, for his kindness in showing me whatever there was to see, and for his present of the photograph of the old castle.

    [636] Croker’s Boswell, p. 826.

    [637] Letters from Edinburgh, pp. 33, 37.

    [638] “With virtue weighed what worthless trash is gold.”

    [639] Knox’s Tour through the Highlands, p. 142.

    [640] “In the year seventy-one they had a severe season remembered by the name of the Black Spring, from which the island has not yet recovered. The snow lay long upon the ground, a calamity hardly known before.” Johnson’s Works, ix. 74.

    [641] Croker’s Boswell, ed. 1835, iv. 322-9.

    [642] Croker Correspondence, ii. 33.

    [643] Croker’s Boswell, p. 334.

    [644] Ante, p. 3.

    [645] Knox’s Tour, p. 152.

    [646] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 173.

    [647] Knox’s Tour, p. 143.

    [648] Swift’s Voyage to Brobdingnag, chap. vii.

    [649] Croker’s Boswell, p. 340.

    [650] Lockhart’s Scott, iv. 302.

    [651] Lockhart’s Scott, iv. 305.

    [652] Pennant’s Voyage to the Hebrides, 1774, p. 295.

    [653] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 304.

    [654] See ante, p. 3.

    [655] See post in the chapter on Lochbuie for an account of the hereditary jurisdictions.

    [656] Martin’s Western Islands, p. 297.

    [657]

    “Your friends forgetting by your friends forgot.”
    Francis’s Horace, Epistles, i. xi. 9.

    [658] Buchanani Opera Omnia, ed. 1725, i. 40.

    [659] Martin’s Western Islands, p. 170.

    [660] Knox’s Tour, p. 139.

    [661] For his services and for many other acts of kindness, I am indebted to the Rev. Roderick Macleod of Macleod.

    [662] M. Martin’s Western Islands, p. 150.

    [663] Pennant’s Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 289.

    [664] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1782, p. 595.

    [665] Knox’s Tour, p. 140.

    [666] Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 291.

    [667] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1774, p. 394.

    [668] Walpole’s Letters, v. 512.

    [669] W. Sacheverell’s Account of the Isle of Man, ed. 1702, p. 126.

    [670] Martin’s Western Islands, p. 253.

    [671] Humphry Clinker, iii. 57.

    [672] History of England, ed. 1870, xii. 443.

    [673] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iv. 338.

    [674] Account of the Isle of Man, p. 130.

    [675] Croker’s Boswell, p. 826.

    [676] Croker’s Boswell, p. 384.

    [677] Pope. Eloisa to Abelard, l. 135.

    [678] Life of Sir James Mackintosh, ii. 257.

    [679] Humphry Clinker, iii. 27.

    [680] J. L. Buchanan, Travels in the Western Highlands from 1782 to 1790, p. 5.

    [681] History of Edinburgh, p. 445.

    [682] See Johnson’s Works, ix. 149. Pennant, however, gives the number of inhabitants as only one hundred and fifty. Pennant’s Tour, ed. 1774, p. 243.

    [683] An Account of the Isle of Man, p. 136.

    [684] Pennant’s Tour, ed. 1774, pp. 243, 246.

    [685] T. Garnett’s Observations, &c., i. 244, 265.

    [686] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, iii. 285; iv. 324.

    [687] Dr. T. Garnett’s Observations, &c., i. 148.

    [688] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., ii. 86.

    [689] The name is now commonly written Lochbuie.

    [690] See ante, p. 5.

    [691] An Essay upon Feudal Holdings, Superiorities, and Hereditary Jurisdictions in Scotland, London, 1747, p. 16.

    [692] “Baro dicitur qui gladii potestatem habet, id est imperium merum; apud nos furcÆ et fossÆ nomine significamus.”—Craig, De Feudis, i. 12, 16, quoted in Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 224.

    [693] An Essay upon Feudal Holdings, &c., pp. 18, 28.

    [694] Dunbar’s Social Life, &c., ii. 141.

    [695] Pennant’s Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 221.

    [696] Letters from a Gentleman in the North of Scotland, i. 54.

    [697] Smollett’s History of England, ii. 79.

    [698] An Act for Abolishing the Heritable Jurisdictions, 1747, p. 19.

    [699] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 202, n. 1.

    [700] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., ii. 94.

    [701] Old Mortality, ed. 1860, ii. 14.

    [702] An Act for Abolishing, &c., p. 17.

    [703] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 292.

    [704] History of the Rebellion in Scotland, ed. 1827, ii. 293.

    [705] Scots Magazine, 1759, p. 441.

    [706] Smollett’s History of England, iii. 206.

    [707] Johnson’s Works, ix. 91.

    [708] Marchmont Papers, i. 234, 248.

    [709] Scots Magazine, 1747, p. 587, and 1748, p. 136.

    [710] Macgibbon and Ross’s Architecture of Scotland, iii. 127.

    [711] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., ii. 430.

    [712] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 14.

    [713] T. Garnett’s Observations, &c., i. 145.

    [714] Knox’s Tour, p. 44.

    [715] Johnson’s Works, ix. 52.

    [716] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 369-373.

    [717] Tour in Scotland, ed. 1774, i. 218.

    [718] Walpole’s Letters, ix. 358.

    [719] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 353, n. 1.

    [720] Horace Walpole’s Letters, ii. 281, 285.

    [721] Ib. p. 293.

    [722] “I went to renew my lease, but my Lord’s Chamberlain was not at home.—Steward. The person who receives the rents and revenues of some corporations is still called chamberlain; as the chamberlain of London.”—Beattie’s Scotticisms, p. 24.

    [723] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 290.

    [724] He gives the following curious account of an accommodation which we should scarcely have expected to find in the dining-room of Inverary: “Si, pendant les libations, le champagne mousseux fait ressentir son influence appÉritive, le cas est prÉvu, et sans quitter la compagnie, on trouve dans de jolies encoignures, placÉs dans les angles de la salle, tout ce qui est nÉcessaire pour satisfaire À ce petit besoin.” Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 294.

    [725] Life of Lord Macaulay, ed. 1877, i. 7.

    [726] Commissioners for Highland Roads and Bridges.

    [727] Wright’s Life of General Wolfe, p. 269.

    [728] Voyage en Angleterre, &c., i. 268.

    [729] Cockburn’s Life of Jeffrey, ed. 1852, ii. 180.

    [730] Rossdhu.

    [731] J. Irving’s Book of Dumbartonshire, ii. 242. See ib. p. 257, where it is stated that it was in 1774 (the year after Johnson’s visit), that “a removal was made from the old castle to the centre portion.”

    [732] Johnson spells the name as it was pronounced Cohune.

    [733] Inch Galbraith.

    [734] Irving’s Book of Dumbartonshire, i. 347.

    [735] I have intentionally altered the names.

    [736] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 299, and Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 491.

    [737] Humphry Clinker, iii. 17, 39.

    [738] Irving’s Book of Dumbartonshire, ii. 200.

    [739] Pennant’s Tour in Scotland, ed. 1774, i. 228.

    [740] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 545.

    [741] Knox’s Tour, pp. cli-iii.

    [742] Wealth of Nations, ed. 1811, iii. 335.

    [743] Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, ii. 230.

    [744] Burton’s Life of Hume, i. 351.

    [745] Camden’s Description of Scotland, 2nd ed. p. 81.

    [746] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Scotland, p. 83.

    [747] J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland, ed. 1723, p. 295.

    [748] Wesley’s Journal, ii. 410.

    [749] Humphry Clinker, iii. 14, 33.

    [750] Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 127.

    [751] Scots Magazine, 1749, p. 202.

    [752] Scots Magazine, 1749, p. 253.

    [753] Mr. Frederic Hill, late Assistant-Secretary to the Post Office.

    [754] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, pp. 71, 74.

    [755] Wesley’s Journal, ii. 286.

    [756] Pennant’s Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 136.

    [757] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 69, and Johnson’s Boswell, v. 68.

    [758] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 27.

    [759] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, pp. 68, 83.

    [760] Boswell’s Letters to Temple, p. 98.

    [761] To prate.

    [762] Shirt-collars.

    [763] Macgibbon and Ross’s Castellated and Domestic Architecture of Scotland, i. 167, 171.

    [764] Description of Scotland, 2nd ed. p. 68.

    [765] R. Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1869, p. 217.

    [766] R. Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1869, p. 217.

    [767] Macgibbon and Ross’s Castellated Architecture of Scotland, ii. 174.

    [768] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 255.

    [769] Ib., p. 215.

    [770] Correspondence of Boswell and Erskine, ed. 1879, p. 26.

    [771] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 161.

    [772] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 161, 173.

    [773] Temple’s Works, ed. 1757, i. 160.

    [774] Scotland and Scotsmen, i. 161. The Earl of Chesterfield, writing to his son in the year 1751, says: “I do not indeed wear feathers and red heels, which would ill suit my age; but I take care to have my clothes well made.” Letters to his Son, ed. 1774, iii. 227.

    [775] Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1874, p. 531.

    [776] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i, 170; ii. 556.

    [777] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 382, n. 2.

    [778] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., ii. 543.

    [779] Ib. i. 166.

    [780] Letters of Boswell to Temple, pp. 216, 219.

    [781] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 166.

    [782]

    “The peace you seek is here—where is it not?
    If your own mind be equal to the lot.”
    Croker.

    [783] Memoirs of Dr. Burney, ii. 191-4.

    [784] Madame d’Arblay’s Diary, ed. 1843, v. 166.

    [785] Boswell’s Correspondence with Erskine, ed. 1879, p. 36.

    [786] Boswell’s Johnson, i. 11; iii. 362; v. 52.

    [787] Scots Magazine, 1797, p. 292.

    [788] Tytler’s Life of Lord Kames, ii. 228.

    [789] Scotland and Scotsmen, i. 176.

    [790] Crazy.

    [791] Loup is a cognate word with leap, and signifies to run. A landlouper is a runagate; one constantly shifting from one place to another.

    [792] Johnson’s Works, ix. 158.

    [793] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 225.

    [794] Ib.

    [795] Garrick Correspondence, i. 436.

    [796] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 156.

    [797] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 172. Tout is the blast of a horn.

    [798] Davies’s Life of Garrick, ii. 115.

    [799] Cromwell’s Letters and Speeches, ed. 1857, ii. 209.

    [800] Croker’s Boswell, 8vo. ed. p. 826.

    [801] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 207.

    [802] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 209.

    [803] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 32.

    [804] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, v. 336.

    [805] C. Rogers’s Modern Scottish Minstrel, 1870, p. 158.

    [806] Lord Cockburn’s Memorials, pp. 380, 392, and Lockhart’s Scott, vii. 33.

    [807] Rogers’s Boswelliana, p. 195, and Notes and Queries, 3rd Series, vii. 197.

    [808] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 315.

    [809] Croker’s Boswell, p. 620.

    [810] Lockhart’s Life of Scott, vii. 33.

    [811] Macaulay’s Miscellaneous Writings, ed. 1871, p. 369.

    [812] Johnson imagines Burke falling into chance conversations on two occasions; once on shunning a shower under a shed, and another time on stepping aside to take shelter from a drove of oxen.—Life of Johnson, iv. 275; v. 34.

    [813] “Johnson. I remember once being with Goldsmith in Westminster Abbey. While we surveyed the Poets’ Corner I said to him,

    ‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.’

    When we got to Temple Bar he stopped me, pointed to the heads upon it, and slily whispered me,

    ‘Forsitan et nostrum nomen miscebitur istis.’”

    Ib. ii. 238.

    [814] See Boswell’s will in Rogers’s Boswelliana, p. 185.

    [815] Carlyle’s Reminiscences, ed. 1881, i. 178.

    [816] Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 545.

    [817] Humphry Clinker, iii. 85.

    [818] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 212, 216.

    [819] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 398.

    [820] Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1825, ii. 161.

    [821] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 397, 407.

    [822] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 383, iii. 404.

    [823] Gibbon’s Miscellaneous Works, ed. 1814, i. 232.

    [824] Hume’s Letters to Strahan, p. 74.

    [825] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 402.

    [826] Burke’s Correspondence, iii. 301.

    [827] A Scotticism for out of the window. See ante, p. 46.

    [828] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 394.

    [829] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 411.

    [830] Burnet’s History of his own Time, ed. 1818, ii. 443.

    [831] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 409.

    [832] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 364.

    [833] Smollett’s History of England, iii. 169.

    [834] Walpole’s Letters, i. 407.

    [835] Scotland and Scotsmen, &c., i. 407.

    [836] Ib., p. 413.

    [837] Chambers’s Traditions of Edinburgh, ed. 1869, p. 145.

    [838] Darnhall is at present Lord Elibank’s seat; but in Paterson’s British Itinerary (ed. 1800, i. 227; ii. 557) it is described as the seat of the Hon. George Murray, while Ballencrieff is mentioned as Lord Elibank’s. Murray is the family name of the Elibanks.

    [839] Humphry Clinker, ii. 219.

    [840] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 32.

    [841] Quarterly Review, No. 71, p. 199.

    [842] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 40.

    [843] Home’s Works, i. 54.

    [844] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 298, and D. Stewart’s Life of Robertson, ed. 1802, p. 5.

    [845] History of England, ed. 1773, v. 504.

    [846] Robertson’s Works, ed. 1802, v. 46.

    [847] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 267.

    [848] Horace Walpole’s Letters, ix. 103.

    [849] When I had the honour of meeting Mr. Gladstone in his visit to Oxford early this year, he quoted this passage in his strong deep voice, and praised it highly.

    [850] At Ballencrieff there is no river, but perhaps Johnson was thinking of the Firth of Forth.

    [851] This interesting tradition comes to me from my friend General Cadell, C.B., of Cockenzie House, to whom I am indebted for the accompanying sketch of the trees.

    [852]

    “From thence our travels to Brundusium bend,
    Where our long journey and my paper end.”
    Francis’s Horace, i. Sat. v. 103.

    [853] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 168.

    [854] Walpole’s Letters, v. 441.

    [855] Letters of Hume to Strahan, pp. 174, 265.

    [856] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 210.

    [857] Dr. A. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 437.

    [858] Tour in Scotland, ed. 1776, ii. 259, 260.

    [859] Twiss’s Life of Lord Eldon, ed. 1846, i. 57, and the Gentleman’s Magazine, 1771, p. 543.

    [860] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 268.

    [861] The original letter of which a facsimile is given is in my possession. See Appendix B.

    TRANSCRIBER’S NOTES:

    The following corrections have been made within this text:

    Page 90: withcraft to witchcraft—“burnt to death for witchcraft”.

    Page 109: Boswells to Boswell—“Boswell calls this a ludicrous description”.

    Page 158: chieftans to chieftains—“There were among them four chieftains”.

    Page 171: repeated word ‘as’ removed—“to serve as a soldier”.

    Page 209: Gentlemen’s to Gentleman’s—“In the Gentleman’s Magazine for December”.

    Page 217: acccount to account—“gives the following account”.

    Page 255: repeated word ‘the’ removed—“it was the time”.

    Page 257: befel to befell—“befell one of his descendants”.

    Page 268: Cuninghame to Cunninghame—“rich district of Cunninghame”.

    Page 309: Bellhaven to Belhaven—“Belhaven, Lord, 39, 79.”

    Page 312: Eglington to Eglintoune—“Eglintoune, Dowager Countess of, 268-70.”

    Page 312: Fergusson to Ferguson—“Ferguson, Dr. Adam, 9, 63, 65.”

    Page 312: Gardenstone to Gardenston—“Garden, Francis (Lord Gardenston), 109.”

    Page 312: Gardenstone to Gardenston—“Gardenston Arms, 109.”

    Page 313: Dalyrymple’s to Dalrymple’s—“Dalrymple’s Memoirs, 303.”

    Page 313: harasssed to harassed—“harassed by invitations, 292;”.

    Page 314: Kirkcaldy to Kirkaldy—“Kirkaldy, 87-8.”

    Page 317: Smollet to Smollett—“Smollett, Commissary, 260.”

    Footnotes 166, 189, 482: Scotchmen to Scotsmen—“Scotland and Scotsmen”.

    Footnote 295: Mackie’s to Macky’s—“J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland”.

    Footnote 430: Mackay’s to Macky’s—“J. Macky’s Journey through Scotland”.

    Footnote 642: Croker Correspondence to Croker’s Correspondence—“Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 33.”

    Footnote 767: Architectecture to Architecture—“Castellated Architecture of Scotland”.






                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               

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