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[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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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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