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[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 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.