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[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 2_s._ _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.

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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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