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OCTOBER 1.-Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary. At-
tacks on authors useful to them. Return to Armidale

OCTOBER 2.-Old manners of great families in Wales. German courts. Gold-

smith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story of the people of St.

Kilda

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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. His curious appearance
on a sheltie. Nature of sea-sickness. Burnet's "History of his own Times."
Difference between dedications and histories
OCTOBER 5.-People may come to do anything by talking of it.
Maclean. Bayle. Leibnitz and Clarke. Survey of Col.
at Breacacha. Dr. Johnson's power of ridicule.
OCTOBER 6.-Heritable jurisdictions. The opinion of philosophers concerning hap-
piness in a cottage considered. Advice to landlords

OCTOBER 7.-Books the best solace in a state of confinement

OCTOBER 8.-Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson.

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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 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 High-
land tradition. Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feeling

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OCTOBER 15.-Erse Poetry. Danger of a knowledge of music. The propriety of
settling our affairs so as to be always prepared for death. Religion and lite-
rary 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. Macquarrie'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 Sunday. Dr Campbell. Dr. Johnson

exhibited as a Highlander. Thoughts on drinking. Dr. Johnson's Latin

verses on Inchkenneth.

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OCTOBER 19.-Death of young Col. Dr. Johnson slow of belief without strong evi-
dence. La Credulité des incredules. 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 of piety.
Feudal authority in the extreme. Return to Mull.
OCTOBER 21.-Pulteny. 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. Loch-

buy's war-saddle. Sail to Oban

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

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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.
Loch Lomond. Dr. Johnson's sentiments on dress. Forms of prayer con-
sidered. Arrive at Mr. Smollett's
OCTOBER 28.-Dr. Smollett'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 Loudon's. Character of that nobleman.

Arrive at Treesbank

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NOVEMBER 1.-Rules for the distribution of charity. Castle of Dundonald.
Countess of Eglintoune. Alexander, Earl of Eglintoune

NOVEMBER 2.-Arrive at Auchinleck. Character of Lord Auchinleck. His idea

of Dr. Johnson

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NOVEMBER 7.-Dr. Johnson's uniform piety. His dislike of Presbyterian worship
NOVEMBER 8.-Arrive at Hamilton

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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 Foote compared as companions., Mora-
vian missions and Methodism

NOVEMBER 11.--History originally oral. Dr. Robertson's liberality of sentiment.

Rebellion natural to man

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SUMMARY ACCOUNT of the manner in which Dr. Johnson spent nis time from
November 12 to November 21. Lord Mansfield, Mr. Richardson. The private
life of an English judge. Dr. Johnson's high opinion of Dr. Robertson and
Dr. Blair. Letter from Dr. Blair to the author. Officers of the army often
ignorant of things belonging to their own profession. Academy for the deaf
and dumb. A Scotch Highlander and an English sailor. Attacks on authors
advantageous to them. Roslin Castle and Hawthornden. Dr. Johnson's
parody of Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs. Arrive at Cranston. Dr. Johnson's
departure for London. Letters from Lord Hailes and Mr. Dempster to the
author. Letter from the Laird of Rasay to the author. The author's answer.
Dr. Johnson's advertisement, acknowledging a mistake in his "Journey to
the Western Islands." His letter to the Laird of Rasay. Letter from Sir
William Forbes to the author. Conclusion

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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

[The topographical subjects have been chiefly copied, either from contemporary prints or recent sketches. Most of the portraits have been taken from Kaye's etchings.]

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