DEDICATION.

CONTENTS.

ADVERTISEMENT.

INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scotland.
August 15. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigration.

Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr. Burke's various
and extraordinary talents. Question concerning genius. Whitfield
and Wesley. Instructions to political parties. Dr. Johnson's opi-
nion of Garrick as a tragedian.

August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edinburgh sur-

veyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits and witchcraft.

Lord Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang.

August 17. Poetry and Dictionary writing. Scepticism. Eternal ne-
cessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity of Human
Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin. Decision of the Judges in Scotland on
literary property.

August 18. Set out for the Hebrides. Sketch of the authour's cha-

racter. Trade of Glasgow. Suicide. Inchkeith. Parliamentary

knowledge. Influence of Peers. Popular clamours. Arrive at

St. Andrews.

August 19. Dr. Watson.

Literature and patronage. Writing and con-

The Union. Value

Retirement from the

versation compared. Change of manners.

St. Andrews and John Knox.

of money.

world. Dinner with the Professors. Question concerning sorrow

and content. Instructions for composition. Dr. Johnson's method.

Uncertainty of memory.

August 20. Effect of prayer. Observance of Sunday. Professor Shaw.
Transubstantiation. Literary property. Mr. Tyers's remark on Dr.
Johnson. Arrive at Montrose.

August 21. Want of trees. Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Monboddo.
Emigration. Homer. Biography and history compared. De-
crease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of bishops. War-
burton. Lowth. Value of politeness. Dr. Johnson's sentiments
concerning Lord Monboddo. Arrive at Aberdeen.

August 22. Professor Thomas Gordon. Publick and private education.
Sir Alexander Gordon. Trade of Aberdeen. Prescription of murder

in Scotland. Mystery of the Trinity. Satisfaction of Christ. Im-

portance of old friendships.

August 23. Dr. Johnson made a burgess of Aberdeen. Dinner at Sir
Alexander Gordon's. Warburton's powers of invective.

trine of Grace. Lock's verses. Fingal.

His Doc-

August 24. Goldsmith and Graham. Slains castle. Education of
children. Buller of Buchan. Entails. Consequence of Peers.
Sir Joshua Reynolds. Earl of Errol.

August 25. The advantage of being on good terms with relations.
Nabobs. Feudal state of subordination. Dinner at Strichen.
Life of country gentlemen. THE LITERARY CLUB.

August 26. Lord Monboddo. Use and importance of wealth. Elgin.
Macbeth's heath. Fores.

August 27. Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Origin of Evil.

Calder-manse. Reasonableness of ecclesiastical subscription.

Family worship.

August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. Contest between
Warburton and Lowth. Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote's. Arabs and
English soldiers compared. The Stage. Mr. Garrick, Mrs. Cibber,
Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness.

August 29.

Macbeth's Castle.

Incorrectness of writers of Travels.

Coinage of new words. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.

August 30. Dr. Johnson on horse-back. A Highland hut. Fort Au-

gustus.

August 31.

Governour Trapaud.

Anoch. Emigration. Goldsmith. Poets and soldiers
compared. Life of a sailor. Landlord's daughter at Anoch.

September 1.

Glensheal. The Macraas. Dr. Johnson's anger at being

left for a little while by the authour on a wild plain. Wretched inn

at Glenelg.

September 2.

Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armidale.

September 3. Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglintoune.

September 4. Ancient Highland Enthusiasm.

September 5. Sir James Macdonald's epitaph and last letters to his

mother. Dr. Johnson's Latin ode on the Isle of Sky.

Hawkins Browne.

Isaac

September 6. Corrichatachin. Highland hospitality and mirth. Dr.
Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale.

September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather. State of

those who live in the country. Dr. M'Pherson's Dissertations.

Second Sight.

September 8. Rev. Mr. Donald M'Queen. Mr. Malcolm M'Cleod. Sail

to Rasay. Fingal. Homer. Elegant and gay entertainment at Rasay,

September 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay. Cure of infidelity.

September 10.

September 10.

Survey of the island of Rasay. Bentley. Mallet.
Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough.

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions.

M'Cleod.

Insular life. The Laird of

September 12. Sail to Portree. Dr. Johnson's discourse on death.
Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson and the authour. Dr.
Johnson's answer. Ride to Kingsburgh. Flora M'Donald.

September 13. Distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II.

Arrive at Dunvegan.

September 14. Importance of the chastity of women.

Dr. Cadogan.

Whether the practice of authours is necessary to enforce their Doc-

trines. Good humour acquirable.

September 15. Sir George M'Kenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, knowledge and

eloquence.

September 16.

Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy. His minute
knowledge in various arts. Apology for the authour's ardour in
his pursuits. Dr. Johnson's imaginary seraglio. Polygamy.
September 17. Cunning. Whether great abilities are necessary to be
wicked. Temple of the Goddess Anaitis. Family portraits. Re-
cords not consulted by old English historians. Mr. Pennant's
Tours criticised.

September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief. Languages
the pedigree of nations. Laird of the Isle of Muck.

September 19.

Choice of a wife. Women an over-match for men.
Lady Grange in St. Kilda. Poetry of savages. French Literati.
Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling.

September 20. Change of London manners. Laziness censured. Landed
and traded interest compared. Gratitude considered.

September 21. Description of Dunvegan. Lord Lovat's Pyramid. Ride
Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole.

to Ulinish.
September 22. Subterraneous house and vast cave in Ulinish. Swift's
Lord Orrery. Defects as well as virtues the proper subject of
biography, though the life be written by a friend. Studied con-
clusions of letters. Whether allowable in dying men to maintain
resentment to the last. Instructions for writing the lives of literary
men. Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed.

September 23. Further disquisition concerning Fingal.

Eminent men

disconcerted by a new mode of publick appearance. Garrick. Mrs.

Montague's Essay on Shakspeare. Persons of consequence watched

in London. Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650. The arts

of civil life little known in Scotland till the Union. Life of a sailor.

The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock-yard. Arrive at

Talisker. Presbyterian clergy deficient in learning.

September 24.

September 24. French hunting. Young Col. Dr. Birch, Dr. Percy.

Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality. Whiggism unbecoming in

a clergyman.

September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage. Return to
Corrichatachin. Good fellowship carried to excess.

September 26. Morning review of last night's intemperance. Old Kings-

burgh's Jacobite song. Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in

Sky. Different views of the same subject at different times. Self-

deception.

September 27. Dr. Johnson's popularity in the Isle of Sky. His good-
humoured gaiety with a Highland lady.

September 28. Ancient Irish pride of family. Dr. Johnson on thresh-
ing and thatching. Dangerous to increase the price of labour.
Arrive at Ostig. Dr. M'Pherson's Latin poetry.

·September 29. Reverend Mr. M'Pherson. Shenstone. Hammond.
Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

September 30. Mr. Burke the first man every where. Very moderate
talents requisite to make a figure in the House of Commons. Dr.
Young. Dr. Doddridge. Increase of infidel writings since the
accession of the Hanover family. Gradual impression made by
Dr. Johnson. Particular minutes to be kept of our studies.

October 1. Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dic-

tionary. Attacks on authours useful to them. Return to Armi-

dale.

October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales.

Goldsmith's love of talk. Emigration.

people of St. Kilda.

German courts.

Curious story of the

October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death. Sail for Mull. A storm.

Driven into Col.

October 4.
Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple.
appearance on a sheltie.

History of his own Times.

histories.

His curious

Nature of sea - sickness. Burnet's
Difference between dedications and

October 5. People may come to do anything by talking of it. The

Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean. Bayle. Leibnitz and Clarke.

Survey of Col. Insular life. Arrive at Breacacha. Dr. Johnson's

power of ridicule.

October 6. Heritable jurisdictions. The opinion of philosophers con-
cerning happiness in a cottage, considered. Advice to land-
lords.

Books the best solace in a state of confinement.

Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No redress for a man's

Lady Sidney Beauclerk.

October 7.

October 8.

name being affixed to a foolish work.

Carte's

Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond. Col's cabinet. Letters of the
great Montrose. Present state of the island of Col.

October 9. Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books. Improbability
of a Highland tradition. Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feeling.

October 10. Dependence of tenants on landlords.

October 11. London and Pekin compared. Dr. Johnson's high opinion

of the former.

October 12. Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's. Other superstitions beside
those connected with religion. Dr. Johnson disgusted with coarse
manners. His peculiar habits.

October 13. Bustle not necessary to dispatch. Oats the food not of

the Scotch alone.

Arrive in Mull.

Addison

The French masters

Their Ana.

Their Ana. Racine.

October 14.

Addison's Remarks on Italy.

not much conversant with Italian literature.

of the art of accommodating literature.

Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire.

Bourdaloue. Virgil's description of the entrance into hell, com-

pared to a printing-house.

Bossuet. Massillon.

October 15.

Erse poetry. Danger of a knowledge of musick. The

propriety of settling our affairs so as to be always prepared for
death. Religion and literary attainments not to be described to
young persons as too hard. Reception of the travellers in their
progress. Spence.

October 16. Miss Maclean. Account of Mull. The value of an oak
walking-stick in the Hebrides. Arrive at Mr. M'Quarrie's in Ulva.
Captain Macleod. Second Sight. Mercheta Mulierum, and
Borough-English. The grounds on which the sale of an estate
may be set aside in a court of equity.

October 17.

Arrive at Inchkenneth. Sir Allan Maclean and his

daughters. None but theological books should be read on Sun-

day. Dr. Campbell. Dr. Johnson exhibited as a Highlander.

Thoughts on drinking. Dr. Johnson's Latin verses on Inch-

kenneth.

October 18. Young Col's various good qualities. No extraordinary
talents requisite to success in trade. Dr. Solander. Mr. Burke.
Dr. Johnson's intrepidity and presence of mind. Singular custom
in the islands of Col and Otaheité. Further elogium on young
Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign countries.

October 19.

Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without

strong evidence. La Crédulité des incrédules. Coast of Mull.
Nun's Island.
Past scenes pleasing in recollection. Land on

Icolmkill.

October 20.

Sketch of the ruins of Icolmkill. Influence of solemn

scenes