his mother.

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

Isaac Hawkins Browne.

September 6. Corrichatachin.

Highland hospitality and mirth.

Dr. Johnson's Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale.

September 7. Uneasy state of dependence on the weather.

of those who live in the country. Dr. M'Pherson's Disserta-

tions. Second Sight.

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

Homer. Elegant and gay enter-

Sail to Rasay. Fingal.

tainment at Rasay.

September 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay.

September 10.

Hooke.

Survey of the island of Rasay.
Duchess of Marlborough.

Cure of infidelity.
Bentley. Mallet.

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird

of M'Cleod.

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. Cado-
gan. Whether the practice of authours is necessary to enforce
their Doctrines. 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 por-
Records 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.

Lady Grange in St. Kilda.

Women an over-match for men.
Poetry of savages. French Lit-

erati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling.

September 20. Change of London manners.

Landed and traded interest compared.

ered.

Laziness censured.

Gratitude consid-

September

September 21. Description of Dunvegan. Lord Lovat's Pyramid.
Ride to Ulinish. Phipps's Voyage to the North Pole.
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 conclusions of letters. Whether allowable in dying
men to maintain resentment to the last. Instructions for writ-
ing 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. French hunting. Young Col. Dr. Birch, Dr. Percy.
Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality. Whiggism unbecom-
ing 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
Kingsburgh's Jacobite song. Lady Margaret Macdonald
adored in Sky. Different views of the same subject at differ-
ent 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
threshing 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 mod-

erate talents requisite to make a figure in the House of Com-

mons. Dr. Young. Dr. Doddridge. Increase of infidel writ-

ings since the accession of the Hanover family. Gradual im-

pression made by Dr. Johnson. Particular minutes to be kept

of our studies.

October 1.

Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his

Dictionary.

Contents.

Dictionary. Attacks on authours useful to them.

Armidale.

October 2.
Old manners of great families in Wales.
courts. Goldsmith's love of talk.

story of the people of St. Kilda.

Emigration.

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Return to

German

Curious

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

October 4. Dr. Johnson's mode of living in the Temple. His
curious appearance on a sheltie. Nature of sea-sickness.
Difference between dedi-

Burnet's History of his own Times.
cations and histories.

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. John-
son's power of ridicule.

October 6. Heritable jurisdictions. The opinion of philosophers

concerning happiness in a cottage, considered. Advice to

landlords.

October 7.

October 8.

Books the best solace in a state of confinement.

Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No redress for a

man's name being affixed to a foolish work. Lady Sidney

Beauclerk. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond. Col's cabi-

net. Letters of the great Montrose. Present state of the isl-

and of Col.

October 9. Dr. Johnson's avidity for a variety of books. Improbabil-

ity 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 be-
side 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.

October 14. Arrive in Mull. Addison's Remarks on Italy. Addi-

son not much conversant with Italian literature. The French

masters of the art of accommodating literature. Their Ana.

Racine. Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire. Bossuet.

Massillon. Bourdaloue. Virgil's description of the entrance

into hell, compared to a printing-house.

October

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 Allen Maclean and his daughters. None but theological books should be read on Sunday. Dr. Campbell. Dr. Johnson exhibited as a Highlander. Thoughts on drinking. Dr. Johnson's Latin verses on Inchkenneth.

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 eulogium on young Col. Credulity of a Frenchman in foreign.

countries. October 19. Death of young without strong evidence. of Mull. Nun's Island. Land on Icolmkill.

October 20.

Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief
La Crédulité des incrédules. Coast
Past scenes pleasing in recollection.

Sketch of the ruins of Icolmkill. Influence of solemn scenes of piety. Feudal authority in the extreme. Return to Mull.

October 21. Pulteney. Pitt. Walpole. Mr. Wilkes. English and Jewish history compared. Scotland composed of stone and water, and a little earth. Turkish Spy. Dreary ride to Lochbuy. Description of the laird.

October 22. Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson, and rejected. Lochbuy's war-saddle. Sail to Oban.

October 23.

Goldsmith's Traveller. Pope and Cowley compared. Archibald Duke of Argyle. Arrive at Inverary. Dr. Johnson drinks some whiskey, and assigns his reason. Letter from the author to Mr. Garrick. Mr. Garrick's answer. October 24. Specimen of Ogden on Prayer. Hervey's Meditations. Dr. Johnson's Meditation on a Pudding. Country neighbours.

The

The authour's visit to the castle of Inverary. Perverse opposition to the influence of Peers in Ayrshire.

October 25. Dr. Johnson presented to the Duke of Argyle. Grandeur of his grace's seat. The authour possesses himself in an embarrassing situation. Honourable Archibald Campbell on a middle state. The old Lord Townshend. Question concerning luxury. Nice trait of character. Good principles and bad practice.

October 26. A passage in Home's Douglas, and one in Juvenal, compared. Neglect of religious buildings in Scotland. Arrive

at Sir James Colquhoun's.

October 27. Dr. Johnson's letter to the Duke of Argyle. His grace's answer. Lochlomond. Dr. Johnson's sentiments on dress. Forms of prayer considered. Arrive at Mr. Smollet's. October 28. Dr. Smollet's Epitaph. Dr. Johnson's wonderful. memory. His alacrity during the Tour. Arrive at Glasgow. October 29. Glasgow surveyed. Attention of the professors to Dr. Johnson.

October 30. Dinner at the Earl of Loudoun's. Character of that nobleman. Arrive at Treesbank.

October 31. Sir John Cunningham of Caprington.

November 1.

donald.

toune.

November 2.

Rules for the distribution of charity.

Castle of DunCountess of Eglintoune. Alexander Earl of Eglin

Arrive at Auchinleck. Character of Lord Auchin

leck. His idea of Dr. Johnson.

November 3. Dr. Johnson's sentiments concerning the Highlands. Mr. Harris of Salisbury.

November 4. Auchinleck. Cattle without horns. Composure of mind, how far attainable.

November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy. November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr. Johnson in collision. November 7. Dr. Johnson's uniform piety. His dislike of presbyterian worship.

November 8. Arrive at Hamilton.

November 9. The Duke of Hamilton's house. Arrive at Edinburgh.

November 10. Lord Elibank. Difference in political principles increased by opposition. Edinburgh Castle. Fingal. English credulity not less than Scottish. Second Sight. Garrick

and