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given rise, remarks which have been industriously circulated in the publick prints by shallow or envious cavillers, who have endeavoured to persuade the world that Dr. Johnson's character has been lessened by recording such various. instances of his lively wit and acute judgment, on every topick that was presented to his mind. In the opinion of every person of taste and knowledge that I have conversed with, it has been greatly heightened; and I will venture to predict, that this specimen of the colloquial talents and extemporaneous effusions of my illustrious fellow-traveller will become still more valuable, when, by the lapse of time, he shall have become an ancient; when all those who can now bear testimony to the transcendent powers of his mind, shall have passed away; and no other memorial of this great and good man shall remain but the following Journal, the other anecdotes and letters preserved by his friends, and those incomparable works, which have for many years been in the highest estimation, and will be read and admired as long as the English language shall be spoken or understood.

LONDON, 15th Aug. 1786.

J. B.

CONTENTS.

CONTENTS.

DEDICATION.

ADVERTISEMENT.

INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scot-
land.

August 15. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigra-
tion. Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr.
Burke's various and extraordinary talents. Question con-
cerning genius. Whitfield and Wesley. Instructions to po-
litical parties. Dr. Johnson's opinion of Garrick as a trage-
dian.

August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edinburgh
surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits and witch-
craft. Lord Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang.

August 17. Poetry and Dictionary writing. Scepticism. Eternal
necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity of
Decision of the Judges in

Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin.
Scotland on literary property.

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

character. Trade of Glasgow.

Suicide.

Inchkeith. Par-

liamentary knowledge. Influence of Peers. Popular clam-
ours. Arrive at St. Andrews.

Writing and
The Union.
Retirement
Question con-

August 19.
Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage.
conversation compared. Change of manners.
Value of money. St. Andrews and John Knox.
from the world. Dinner with the Professors.
cerning 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.
August 21. Want of trees.

Arrive at Montrose.

Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Monbod-

do. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history compared.

Decrease

Decrease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of Bishops.

Warburton. Lowth. Value of politeness. Dr. Johnson's

sentiments concerning Lord Monboddo. Arrive at Aber-

deen.

August 22. Professor Thomas Gordon. Publick and private edu-
cation. Sir Alexander Gordon. Trade of Aberdeen. Pre-
scription of murder in Scotland. Mystery of the Trinity.
Satisfaction of Christ. Importance of old friendships.
August 23. Dr. Johnson made a burgess of Aberdeen. Dinner
at Sir Alexander Gordon's. Warburton's powers of invective.
His Doctrine of Grace. Lock's verses. Fingal.

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.
Elgin. Macbeth's heath.

August 27.

Use and importance of wealth.
Fores.

Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Origin of

Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of ecclesiastical sub-

scription. Family worship.

August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. Contest be-
tween Warburton and Lowth. Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote's.
Arabs and English soldiers compared. The Stage. Mr. Gar-
rick, Mrs. Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness.
August 29.

Macbeth's Castle. Incorrectness of writers of Trav-
els. Coinage of new words. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.

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

Augustus. Governour Trapaud.

August 31. Anoch. Emigration.

diers compared.

Anoch.

September 1.

Goldsmith. Poets and sol-

Glensheal. The Macraas.

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