[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.
[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.
[656] Martin’s Western Islands, p. 297.
[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.
[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.
[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.