Chapter XV: Appendix: B (1)

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DR. JOHNSON’S LETTER TO DR. TAYLOR.

“Dear Sir,

“When I was at Edinburgh I had a letter from you, telling me that in answer to some enquiry you were informed that I was in the Sky. I was then I suppose in the western islands of Scotland; I set out on the northern expedition August 6, and came back to Fleet-street, November 26. I have seen a new region.

“I have been upon seven of the islands, and probably should have visited many more, had we not begun our journey so late in the year, that the stormy weather came upon us, and the storms have I believe for about five months hardly any intermission.

“Your Letter told me that you were better. When you write do not forget to confirm that account. I had very little ill health while I was on the journey, and bore rain and wind tolerably well. I had a cold and deafness only for a few days, and those days I passed at a good house. I have traversed the east coast of Scotland from south to north from Edinburgh to Inverness, and the west coast from north to south, from the Highlands to Glasgow, and am come back as I went,

“Sir,
“Your affectionate humble servant,
“Sam. Johnson.

“_Jan. 15, 1774._

“To the Reverend Dr. Taylor,
“in Ashbourn,
“Derbyshire.”

INDEX.

Aberbrothick, 94, 105-7, 190.

Aberdeen, 115-123;
freedom of the city, 18, 116;
population, 118;
King’s College, 120;
Marischal College, 110, 121;
professors, 122.

_Academy_, 279.

Adams, Rev. Dr. William, 66.

Addison, Joseph, 5, 62.

Airdsmoss, 289.

Allan of Muidart, 173.

_Amuse_, 245.

Anderson, Rev. John, 97.

Anoch, 153.

Arbroath. _See_ ABERBROTHICK.

Arbuthnot, Dr., 89.

Ardnamurchan, 5, 214.

Ardvoirlich, 254.

Argyle, Archibald, second Earl of, 141.

Argyle, Archibald, ninth Earl of, 217, 249.

Argyle, Archibald, Marquis of, 250.

Argyle, Elizabeth Gunning, Duchess of, 247, 249-252, 256.

Argyle, Jane, Countess of, 250.

Argyle, John, second Duke of, 251.

Argyle, John, fifth Duke of, 227, 246-253.

Armidale, 23, 167, 214.

Auchans, 268.

Auchinleck, Lord, 18, 56, 62, 74, 79, 80, 115, 146, 189, 234, 271-288, 292.

Auchinleck, 271-290;
house, 273-5;
old castle, 287;
_via sacra_, manse, church, 288;
village, 289;
pronounced Affléck, 290.

Auchnacraig, 242.

Auchnasheal, 144, 161.

Authors, 60-3, 66.

Bagpipes, 243.

Ballencrieff, 297.

Balliol College, 84.

Banff, 129.

Banks, Sir Joseph, 24.

Bare feet, 289.

Baronial turrets, 113.

Bathing, 112.

Bayle, Peter, 19.

Beaton, Cardinal, 94, 97.

Beattie, Rev. Dr. James, 13, 14, 28, 62, 123.

Beauclerk, Topham, 66.

Bedford, Duke of, 29.

Beggars, 43.

Belhaven, Lord, 39, 79.

Bentham, Jeremiah, 71.

Berkeley, Bishop, 92.

Berkeley, G. M., 92, 100, 117.

Bernera, 165.

Black, Adam, 77.

Black, Mr. Angus, 241.

Black Spring of 1771, 187.

Blacklock, Dr. Thomas, 75.

Blackshields, 304.

Blair, Rev. Dr. Hugh, 10, 14, 63, 65, 74, 81, 122, 278.

Boats, 171.

Boswell, Alexander (the author’s father). _See_ LORD AUCHINLECK.

Boswell, Sir Alexander (the author’s eldest son), 283.

Boswell, David (the author’s brother), 282, 284.

Boswell, James (author of _The Life of Johnson_), activity, 105, 178;
ancestry, 272;
autograph, 287;
_Court of Session Garland_, 293;
descendants, 283-7;
described by Miss Burney, 276;
and by himself, 277;
drunk, 4, 168, 213;
facility of manners, 272;
family pride, 282;
fear of ghosts, 205;
feudal enthusiasm, 284;
funeral, 288;
good landlord, 290;
indifference to scenery, 86, 275;
interested in the Douglas cause, 56, 247, 272;
_Life of Johnson_, 285-6;
love of London, 149;
manuscripts, 285;
mentioned by Burns, 267;
no memorial of him, 77;
praises savage life, 261;
pronunciation, 63;
_Tour to Corsica_, 280, 285;
will, 284, 290.

Boswell, James (the author’s grandfather), 272.

Boswell, James (the author’s second son), 284.

Boswell, Sir James (the author’s grandson), 284.

Boswell, Thomas Alexander, 284.

Boswell, Veronica (the author’s eldest daughter), 75.

Boswell, Mrs. (Lord Auchinleck’s second wife), 271.

Boswell, Mrs. (the author’s wife), 55, 75, 220, 267.

Boswell family, 286.

Bothwell, Earl of, 69.

Boyd, Hon. Charles, 128.

Boyd, James, 69.

Braxfield, Lord, 293.

Breadalbane, Lord, 34.

Breakfasts, 20.

Brentford, 263.

Brett, John, R.A., 207.

Brighton, 123, 199.

Broadford, 3, 167, 169-171.

Bruar Water, 24, 33.

Bruce, King Robert, 258.

Buccleugh, fifth Duke of, 77.

Buchanan, George, 37, 91, 200.

Bullers of Buchan, 128.

Burgynski, Count, 279.

Burke, Edmund, 66, 76, 263, 277, 286, 294.

Burlassig, 150.

Burnet, Bishop, 295.

Burney, Dr., 296.

Burney, Miss, 276.

Burns, Robert, _Bruar Water_, 24, 33;
Ayrshire scenery, 31;
Scotch militia, 64;
Holyrood House, 85;
Miss Burnet, 112;
Inverary, 246;
_Earnest Cry and Prayer_, 267;
“Lugar’s winding stream,” 280;
monument, 283;
his genius hidden by his dialect, 286.

Bury, Lord, 145.

Bute, Earl of, 37.

Byron, Lord, 25.

Cadell, General, C.B., 302, _n._ 1.

Cambridge, R. O., 296.

Camden, William, 27, 97, 264, 268.

Cameron, 260.

Cameron of Lochiel, 144, 282.

Cameron, Mrs., of Talisker, 210.

Cameronians, 289.

Campbell, Rev. Dr. Archibald, 90, _n._ 2.

Campbell, Sir Hugh, 142.

Campbell, Dr. John, 14.

Campbell of Inverliver, 141.

Campbell of Treesbank, 267.

Campbell, ——, 4, _n._ 2.

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, 263.

Coaches, 264.

Coal, 262.

Cockburn, Lord, 58, 59, 80, 81.

Cockburn, Sheriff, 56.

_Cocker’s Arithmetic_, 154.

Cocoa Tree Club, 297.

Col, Isle of, 24, 214-6, 236.

Col, Macleane of. _See_ MACLEANE.

Coleridge, S. T., 162.

Colliers, 69, 236, 259.

Colman, George, 117.

Colquhoun, Sir James, 257.

Colvay, 217.

Commissary Court, 261.

Coote, Sir Eyre, 142.

Copyright, 61.

Corrichatachin, 4, 21, 167-70, 212.

Corsica, 201, 204, 280.

Court of Session, 78.

_Court of Session Garland_, 293.

Covenanted magistrates, 275.

Coventry, Countess of, 248, 250.

Cox, G. V., 117.

Craig, James, 57.

Craigie, Lord President, 58.

Craignure, 4, 233.

Cranston, 302.

Cromartie, Earl of, 298.

Cromwell, Oliver, 35, 68, 145, 250, 278.

Crosbie, Andrew, 64.

Cuchullin Hills, 204.

Culloden, 60, 127, 142, 146, 152, 155, 298.

Cumberland, Richard, 190.

Cumberland, William, Duke of, 27, 102, 118, 123, 129, 142-6, 152,
155, 171, 298.

Cunninghame, 268.

Cupar, 88.

Dalrymple, Sir David. _See_ LORD HAILES.

Dalrymple, Sir John, 63, 302-4.

Dancing, 178.

Darnhall, 297.

Davies, Thomas, 280.

Defoe, Daniel, 34, 36, 51, 99, 107, 131, 145, 264.

_Dempster_, 235.

Dempster, George, 8.

Dinner-hour, 65.

Discounts, 98.

Doge of Genoa, 23.

Dominies, 278.

Douglas, Duchess of, 63.

Douglas, Elizabeth, 113.

Douglas Cause, 56, 247, 272.

Drinking, 91.

Drumclog Moor, 290.

Drummond of Hawthornden, 304.

Drummond, George, of Blair, 35, 44 _n._ 3.

Drummore, Lord, 58.

Dryden, John, 109.

Dun, Rev. John, 288.

Dun Buy, 129, 238.

Dun Can, 2, 177.

Dunbar, 68.

Dunbarton, 262.

Dundas, Henry. _See_ VISCOUNT MELVILLE.

Dundee, 12, 105.

Dundee, Marquis of, 109.

Dundonald Castle, 267, 270.

Dungeons and pits, 198, 234-9.

Dunolly Castle, 244.

Dunvegan, 1-3, 19, 184-204, 235.

Durham, 87.

_Durham on the Galatians_, 281.

Dutch Scotch Regiments, 209.

Edinburgh, Advocates’ Library, 80;
Bridge, 58;
Cadies, 54;
Castle, 85;
Chessel’s Buildings, 72;
College Wynd, 82;
Cowgate, 82;
Cross, 53, 81;
English residents, 37;
Grass Market, 53;
Guard House, 78;
hackney coaches, 65;
High Street, 51-4;
Holyrood House, 77, 85, 295;
hotbed of genius, 9;
houses, 45;
inns and taverns, 45, 49-51, 69-72;
James’s Court, 57, 67, 72-7;
Laigh Parliament House, 80;
Luckenbooths, 52, 78;
Mound, 58;
New Town, 57, 59;
Parliament-House, 78;
Pleasance, 50;
poor, 42;
Post-House Stairs, 82;
printing-houses, 61;
robberies, 54;
Royal Infirmary, 84;
scavengers, 46;
“Scotch scene,” 60;
Sedans, 65;
Select Society, 48, 298;
St. David’s Street, 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, 92.

Fores, 134.

Forrest, Henry, 93.

Fort Augustus, 143, 148, 152, 162.

Fort George, 142.

Foster-children, 4.

Foyers, 130, 150-51.

Franklin, Benjamin, 74, 77.

Frederick, Prince of Wales, 296.

Freedom of towns, 117.

Froude, Mr. J. A., 217, 290.

Funeral bill, 131.

Funerals, 227, 241.

_Furca et fossa_, 235.

Gaelic. _See_ ERSE.

Garden, Francis (Lord Gardenston), 109.

Gardens, 32, 35, 42, 105, 169, 175-76, 190, 210, 240, 301.

Gardenston Arms, 109.

Garnett, Dr. T., 150, 161, 229, 232, 242.

Garrick, David, 76.

Geddes, Jenny, 81.

General’s Hut, 150.

George I., 69.

George II., 48, 101, 127, 144.

George III., 115, 120, 127, 300.

George IV., 77, 283.

Giant’s Causeway, 211.

Gibbon, Edward, 67, 230, 293.

Gladstone, Right Hon. W. E., 81, _n._ 1, 300, _n._ 1.

Glamis Castle, 173.

Glasgow, 94, 117, 123, 198, 262-66.

_Glen_, 157.

Glen Clunie, 156-57.

Glen Croe, 5, 13, 253-55.

Glen Elg, 10, 20, 163-67.

Glen Morison, 2, 19, 153.

Glen Shiel, 156-60.

Goat Island, 174.

Goldsmith, Oliver, 3, 32, 33, 49, 244, 285-87.

Golf, 9, _n._ 1, 98.

Graham, Marquis of, 172.

Graham, Peter, R.A., 207.

Grant, Colonel, 136.

Grant, Rev. Mr., 136, 137.

Grants of Glenmorison, 155.

Gray, Thomas, 26, 28, 33, 45 _n._ 6, 47, 123, 143, 173.

Green, Matthew, 103.

Gunning, Elizabeth. _See_ ARGYLE, DUCHESS OF.

Gustavus Adolphus, 113.

Hackney-coaches, 65.

Haddington, 43, 68.

Hailes, Lord (Sir David Dalrymple), 8, 14, 80, 132, 292-97.

Hailes, Miss, 297.

Hallam, Arthur, 294.

Hallam, Dean, 294.

Hamilton, 290.

Hamilton, Duke of, 248.

Hamilton, Lady Betty, 251.

Hamilton, Patrick, 93.

Hamilton of Bangour, 269.

Hawthornden, 304.

Hebridean sailors, 21.

Hedges, 16, 109.

Henderson, Andrew, 144, 155, 171.

Hereditary Jurisdictions, 197, 228, 234-38.

Heronry, 200.

Hesiod, 95.

Highlands and Hebrides, air, 25;
books, 168;
chiefs, 228;
dress, 171-73, 181-82, 203, 255;
fidelity of Highlanders, 183;
like Indians, 154, 161;
“banditti,” 165;
unknown, 24.

Hill, Mr. Frederick, 265.

Hill, Sir Rowland, 170.

Holland, 272, 274.

Home, John, 10, 39, 63, 298-99.

_Honest man_, 169.

Hottentots, 15, _n._ 3, 288.

Houses, 15, 21, 32, 42, 45, 170, 177, 220, 229, 240, 296.

_Hudibras_, 138.

HUME, DAVID, ill-will to England, 7;
benefits of the Union, 39;
house, 57, 66, 74-77;
in the mire, 59;
journey to London, 59;
accent, 62, 67;
copy-money, 63;
Poker Club, 64;
cookery, 66;
“infidel writer,” 66;
conversation, 67;
father’s house, 68;
no statue, 77;
Advocates’ Librarian, 80;
dread of the sea, 87;
Reynolds’s picture, 123;
Clow preferred to him, 263;
Lord Hailes, 294;
Select Society, 298;
Mary, Queen of Scots, 299;
Dalrymple’s _Memoirs_, 303.

_Humphry Clinker_, 38.

Iceland, 23.

Inch Galbraith, 257.

Inch Keith, 85.

Inch Kenneth, 6, 218, 221-25.

Innes, Rev. Dr., 90, _n._ 2.

Inns, 49, 69, 89, 151, 165, 180, 219, 229, 245-46, 262, 304.

Inverary, 232, 245-53, 257.

Invermoriston, 152.

Inverness, 137, 142-48.

Iona, 214, 226-31.

Ireland, 64.

Irish people, 14.

Irvine, Robert, 113.

Irving, Edward, 86, 88, 291.

Irving, Mr. Henry, 140.

Isa, 174, 199.

Isle of Muck, 199.

James IV., 120.

James V., 180.

James VI., 135.

James II. of England, 182, 250, 295.

Jardine, Rev. Dr., 65.

Jeffrey, Francis (Lord Jeffrey), 33, 62 _n._ 9, 256.

Johns of Scotland, The Four, 158.

Johnson Club, 160, 173.

Johnson, Michael, 23.

JOHNSON, SAMUEL, affection for Boswell, 272;
altercation with Lord Auchinleck, 278-281;
behaviour at Dunvegan, 188;
broad-sword, 24;
never complained, 20;
complimented on his return, 22;
cups of tea, 189, 204;
dangers of his voyage, 21;
delicate in his language, 196;
_Dictionary_, 168;
dominie, 278;
dread of the Highlanders, 154, 161;
dukes and lords, 270;
Erse New Testament, 266;
feared by professors, 122, 263;
fresh air, 47;
fretful, 164;
harassed by invitations, 292;
hatred of exaggeration, 22;
hogshead of sense, 232;
imitates the kangaroo, 137;
“Island Isa,” 174;
laced clothes, 260;
in a library, 295;
love of life, 297;
journey to Edinburgh and return, 59, 304;
_Journey to the Hebrides_, 17, 156, 259;
lemonade, 71, 107;
levee, 75;
meals, 10;
objects of his tour, 24;
_Odes_, 1, 168;
peats, 3;
politeness, 257;
projected monument, 288;
retirement, 95;
roving among the Hebrides, 23, 227;
sacrilege, 132;
Sassenach mohr, 1;
scenery, 24-29, 86, 120, 245;
Scotch feeling towards him, 7-16, 259, 300;
his feeling towards them, 7, 16;
sleep, 152;
spurs, 173;
tavern-life, 299;
traditions of him, 1-7, 156, 164, 189, 191, 204, 296, 302;
_Ursa Major_, 79;
walking-stick, 2, 34, 173, 176, 220;
wig, 3, 197;
writing doggedly, 81;
young English buck, 182.

_Johnston_, 2, 5, 12, 195, 234.

Jonson, Ben, 304.

Jopp, Provost, 116.

Jougs, 138.

Judges, on circuit, 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, 253.

Loch Grishinish, 184.

Loch Harport, 211.

Loch Hourn, 144.

Lochiern, 21.

Loch Lomond, 6, 25, 30, 253, 255-61.

Loch Na Keal, 218.

Loch Ness, 27, 30, 149-52.

Loch Snizort, 181, 184.

Loch Uisk, 233.

Lochbuy, Laird of (John Macleane), 5, 233-42.

Lochbuy, Lady, 6, 189, 234.

Lochbuy, Macleane of, (the present Laird), 237, 240, 242.

Lodore, 151.

Loudoun, Countess of, 296.

Loudoun, Earl of, 270.

Lovat, Lord, 141.

Lugar, 280, 287.

Luss, 255, 258.

Lyttelton, Lord, 15 _n._ 3.

Macaulay, Lord, 11, 135, 137, 253, 285-87.

Macaulay, Rev. John, 11, 253.

Macaulay, Rev. Kenneth, 135-59.

Macaulay, Zachary, 253.

Macbeth, 147.

Macdonald, Sir Alexander, 6, 22, 167.

Macdonald, Flora, 19, 181-83.

Macdonald, Sir James, 180.

Macdonald of Kingsburgh, 182, 184.

Mackenzie, Henry, 63.

Mackenzie, Mrs. 145.

Mackenzies, clan of, 158.

Mackinnon, Lachlan, 170.

Mackinnon, Mrs., 168.

Mackinnon’s Cave, 226.

Mackintosh, Sir James, 226.

Mackintoshes, clan of, 155.

Macleane, Sir Allan, 6, 218, 221-30, 234.

Macleane of Col, 4, 21, 35, 211, 220, 226, 234.

Macleane of Drumnen, 25.

Macleane, Dr., 218.

Macleane of Lochbuy. _See_ LOCHBUY.

Macleane, Miss, 218.

Macleod of Macleod, Miss, 2, 191, 284.

Macleod, Lady, 189-90, 194.

Macleod, Laird of, 2, 29, 177, 186-9, 209.

Macleod, the old Laird of, 187, 192.

Macleod, Major Alexander, 189.

Macleod, Colonel, 187, 207-9.

Macleod, John, of Raasay, 19, 171, 174-79.

Macleod, Malcolm, 171-73, 179.

Macleod, Mrs., of Ulinish, 204.

Macleod, Rev. Neal, 231.

Macleod, Sir Roderick, 193.

Macleod’s Maidens, 194, 207.

Macleod’s Tables, 197.

Macpherson, James, 10, 11, 63.

Macquarrie of Ulva, 220.

Macqueen, Rev. Donald, 4, 18, 171, 177, 179.

Macsweyn, 3 _n._ 1, 35.

Magus Moor, 88.

Maine, Sir Henry, 177.

Mallet, David, 62.

Mam Rattachan, 2, 164, 241.

Man not naturally good, 189.

Mansfield, Earl of, 20, 124.

Martin, M., 23, 173, 175, 179, 198, 200, 206, 216.

Mary, Queen of Scots, 69, 106, 250, 299.

Mason, Rev. William, 28, 151.

Matheson, Rev. Alexander, 145 _n._ 1, 156, 162.

Matthews, Charles, 284.

McCraas, 144, 161.

Meals, 20, 41, 43-5, 165.

Medical men, 232.

Melville, Viscount, (Henry Dundas), 77, 80.

Merk, Scotch, 121.

Mile stones, 253.

Militia, 64.

Millar, Andrew, 14.

Milne, Walter, 93.

Ministers, 19.

M’Nicol, Rev. Donald, 11, 135 _n._ 1.

Moidart, 144.

Monboddo, Lord (James Burnet), 15, 18, 80, 110-15, 276, 300.

Monboddo House, 113.

Montgomery, Lord Chief Baron, 58.

Montrose, 104, 107.

Moray, Bishop of, 120.

Mordaunt, Brigadier, 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, 34, 82, 91, 98, 109, 117, 137, 149, 165,
195, 211, 229, 235, 246-47, 249, 253, 264, 304.

Percy, Dr. Thomas (Bishop of Dromore), 22.

Perth, 117, 172.

Philibeg, 171.

Pictish Forts, 167.

Pinkie, 69.

Pitcairne, Dr. Archibald, 109.

Pitfour, Lord, 146.

Pitt, William. _See_ EARL OF CHATHAM.

Pius IX., 106.

Plaids, 147, 171.

Plane trees, 101, _n._ 2.

Plutarch, 111.

Poker Club, 64, 303.

Poland, 279.

Porteous Riots, 78.

Porter, Lucy, 220.

Portraits, 192.

Portree, 180, 184.

Post chaises, 68, 87, 148.

Posts, 123, 145, 170, 262, 292.

Potatoes, 35.

Presbyterians, 274.

Preston Pans, 69.

Prince Charlie’s Caves, 206.

Pringle, Sir John, 74, 274, 281.

Prisons, 54, 146. _See_ DUNGEON.

Pulteney, William (Earl of Bath), 232.

Querns, 211.

Quin, James, 280.

Raasay, 2, 19, 142, 171-79.

Raeburn, Sir Henry, 192.

Ramsay, Allan, 77, 267, 269, 298.

Ramsay, John, of Ochtertyre, 45, 56, 174, 189, 241, 272, 278, 294.

Ranelagh Gardens, 49.

Rattachan. _See_ MAM RATTACHAN.

Ray, James, 129, 149.

Rebellion of 1745-46, 101, 119, 123, 127, 129, 134, 142-46, 149-52,
154-55, 171, 179, 181, 264-65, 296, 298.

Reformation, The, 16.

Reid, Rev. Dr. Thomas, 63, 120, 263.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, 17, 123, 127, 249, 277, 283.

Ritter, Joseph, 86.

Rizzio, David, 85.

Roads, 87, 147-48, 184, 224, 245, 260.

Robert II., 267.

Robertson, Rev. Dr. William, 14, 22, 48, 63, 66, 77, 81-5, 123,
223, 298-99.

Robinson, “Peter,” 79.

Rochester, Earl of, 91.

Rogers, Samuel, 59.

Roger, Professor Thorold, 237.

Rollo, Lord, 119.

Room-setters, 71, _n._ 4.

Rorie More, 186, 190, 193-96.

Rosedew, 257.

Rosslyn Chapel, 304.

Rosslyn, first Earl of, 287.

Rousseau, 5, 77, 111, 287.

Rowlandson, Thomas, 281.

Royal Charlotte, 192.

Ruddiman, Thomas, 80, 109.

Rum, Isle of, 213.

Ruskin, John, 57.

Russell, Lord William, 303.

Sacheverell, William, 162, 216, 219, 229.

Sacrament-Sunday, 201.

Saint-Fond, Faujas de, 29, 51, 84, 90, 92, 96-7, 243, 252-56.

Salters, 69, 236.

_Saluting_, 182.

Sandiland, 224.

Scalpa, 173.

Scarsdale, Lord, 168.

Scenery, 24-34, 87, 218.

Schools, 259.

Sconser, 211.

SCOTCH, boastful, 14;
clannish, 14;
combination, 14, 39;
decencies of life neglected, 41-8;
English abuse, 38;
English ignorance of them, 24, 36;
English imitated, 7, 60-3;
historical nation, 63;
hospitality, 65;
ill-fed, 41;
learning, 60, 290;
neglect of the beautiful, 32;
outcry against Johnson, 8-15;
road to England, 38;
sensitive to criticism, 7;
vigour of character, 32, 38, 40.

Scots Hunters, 49.

Scots Magazine, 7.

SCOTT, SIR WALTER, Lord Auchinleck, 274, 278;
Sir A. Boswell, 283-84;
Buchanan a favourite author, 91;
colliers and salters, 259;
cruise in 1814, 124;
Duke of Cumberland, 143;
death of Col, 220;
dominies, 279;
at Dunvegan, 188, 191, 193, 195;
Lord Elibank, 298;
Highland accommodation, 8;
Highland dress, 172;
house in the College Wynd, 48, 78;
Inch Kenneth, 221;
inns, 151;
Iona, 229;
Johnson and Adam Smith, 263;
Johnson’s _Ode_, 168;
last quotation from Johnson, 83;
_Johnston_, 234;
Lord Monboddo, 112, 114;
_Old Mortality_, 291;
_Peveril of the Peak_, 79;
his popularity, 286;
Scotch learning, 61;
Archbishop Sharpe, 88;
at St. Andrews, 96;
in Skye, 1;
Lord Stowell, 71;
at Tobermory, 217;
trees, 34;
Wizard of the North, 38.

Scott, William (Lord Stowell), 68, 71.

Seaforth, Lord, 161.

Sharpe, Archbishop, 88, 97.

Sheep-shearing, 163.

Shenstone, William, 72, 214.

Sidney, Algernon, 303.

Sikes, Sir Charles, 285.

Silver fork, 252.

Singing, 173.

Singing-birds, 163.

Skinner, Rev. John, 119.

Skye, the verge of European life, 170;
one magistrate, 177.

Slains Castle, 124-29.

Slaves, 292.

Sligachan, 211.

Smallet of Dumbarton, 217.

SMITH, ADAM, praises Boswell, 272;
conversation, 278;
farming, 35;
Kirkaldy, 66, 87-8;
old town of Edinburgh, 59;
peasantry, 41;
professor at Glasgow, 263;
reported quarrel with Johnson, 263;
room in Hume’s house, 67, 74;
Select Society, 298;
no statue to him, 77;
tax on coal, 263;
the Union, 39;
_Wealth of Nations_, 63.

Smith, ——, an architect, 294.

Smoking, 91.

Smollett, Commissary, 260.

SMOLLETT, TOBIAS, ancestor, 217;
beggars, 43;
churches, 82;
Edinburgh High Street, 52;
Lord Elibank, 297;
funerals, 227;
Glasgow, 264;
Hamilton, 291;
Highland dress, 172;
and meals, 44;
_Humphry Clinker_, 37;
inns, 50;
living, 41, 46;
his pillar, 261;
rebel prisoners, 155;
St. Andrews, 91;
_Tears of Scotland_, 142;
turnips, 36;
Union, 39.

Snuff, 161.

Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, 266.

Soldiers, 154, 165.

Somerset, Duke of, 69.

South, Rev. Dr. Robert, 16 _n._ 6.

Southey, Robert, 105 _n._ 1.

Spanish Invasion, 158, 217.

Speke, Captain, 136.

Spey, 130.

_Spouse_, 107.

ST. ANDREWS, 16, 17, 88-103;
Castle, 92;
Cathedral, 94, 102;
Cloisters, 95;
Glass’s Inn, 89;
nonjuring parson, 119;
professors’ dinner, 97;
St. Leonard’s College, 89;
St. Mary’s College, 100;
St. Salvator’s College, 99;
St. Rule, 96;
streets, 91;
trees, 97;
University, 98-9, 102.

St. Kilda, 198.

Stablers, 51, 69.

Staffa, 24, 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.

Trevelyan, Sir George, 135, 253.

Turk’s Head Coffee-house, 23, 292.

Turnips, 35.

Tytler, A. F., 277, 304.

Ulinish, 204.

Ulva, 4, 218-221.

Union, 15, 39, 236.

Universities, 83, 99, 120-22, 265.

_Up streets_, 53, _n._ 3.

_Utensils_, 176.

Vails, 48.

Vegetables, 35, 44.

Venice, 16.

Vested interests, 237.

Village communities, 177.

Vitrified forts, 148.

Voltaire, 22, 123, 280.

Wade, General, 147, 150.

Waggons, 87.

Wales, 85.

Walker, Rev. George, 289.

Wallace, Rev. Robert, D.D., 9.

Wallace, Sir William, 294.

Waller, Edmund, 121.

Walpole, Horace, 37, 64, 127, 132, 215, 248, 250, 296-97, 303.

Walpole, Sir Robert, 231.

Walton, Isaac, 102.

Washing, 137.

Washington, George, 188.

Watson, Professor Robert, 63, 89.

Watts, Mr., the painter, 229.

Wellington, Duke of, 301.

WESLEY, JOHN, Aberbrothick, 105;
Aberdeen, 119;
arrested, 56;
Edinburgh dirt, 47;
freeman of Perth, 117;
funerals, 241;
Glasgow, 264-65;
Holy Rood House, 85;
inns, 49;
Inverness, 145, 149, 163;
Johnson’s Tour, 17;
meals, 44;
mountain scenery, 28;
Nairn, 135;
preaching to the Scotch, 40;
reforming mobs, 94;
Spey, 130;
St. Andrews, 89, 99;
towns, 51.

Wheaten bread, 44, 161, 257.

Whigs, 282.

Whisky, 245.

White Horse, 69.

Whitefield, Rev. George, 76.

Wia, 205.

Wilkes, John, 66.

William III., 274.

Wilkie, William, D.D., 10.

Wilson, John, 77.

Windows, 47.

Wishart, George, 93.

Witches, 90.

Wolfe, Major-General James, 25, 41, 47, 142-43, 145, 154, 171, 254.

Worcestershire Volunteers, 265.

Wordsworth, William, 28, 32, 135, 254.

Writers to the Signet, 222.

Yew Tree Island, 258.

Zoffany, John, 188, 195.

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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.”