[475] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.

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

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

[478] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 77.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[488] Written in 1889.

[489] Boswell’s Johnson, iii. 405.

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

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

[492] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 397.

[493] Defoe’s Tour, p. 179.

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

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

[496] Pennant’s Tour, ii. 278.

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

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

[499] Ancient Metaphysics, iv. 45.

[500] Ib. p. 48.

[501] Ib. p. 55.

[502] Hannah More’s Memoirs, i. 252.

[503] Ancient Metaphysics, vi. 212.

[504] Origin of Language, v. 274.

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

[506] Ancient Metaphysics, v. 307.

[507] Croker’s Boswell, p. 288.

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

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

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

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

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

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

[514] Vol. ii. p. 99.

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

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

[517] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 461.

[518] Pennant’s Tour, i. 121.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[532] Johnson’s Works, viii. 479.

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

[534] Piozzi Letters, i. 387.

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

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

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

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

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

[540] Walpole’s Letters, iii. 438.

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

[542] Walpole’s Letters, ii. 38.

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

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

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

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

[547] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.

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

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

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

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

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

[553] Boswell’s Johnson, vi. xxxiii.

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

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

[556] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.

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

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

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

[560] Hudibras, iii. 1, 1477.

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

[562] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 178.

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

[564] Johnson’s Works, ix. 86.

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

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

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

[568] Ib., p. 324.

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

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

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

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

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

[574] Marchmont Papers, i. 196.

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

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

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

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

[579] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 181.

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

[581] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 177.

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

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

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

[585] Ib., p. 89.

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

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

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

[589] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 275.

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

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

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

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

[594] Walpole’s Letters, v. 501.

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

[596] Ib., p. 362.

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

[598] Wright’s Life of Wolfe, p. 279.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[609] Wesley’s Journal, iv. 275.

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

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

[612] Ib., p. 345.

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

[614] Boswell calls the place Broadfoot.

[615] Johnson’s Works, ix. 47.

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

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

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

[619] Johnson’s Works, ix. 94.

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

[621] Humphry Clinker, iii. 20.

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

[623] Croker’s Boswell, p. 316.

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

[625] Croker’s Boswell, p. 364.

[626] Gray’s Works, iv. 55.

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