The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson

August 22.

Professor Thomas Gordon. Public and
private education. Sir Alexander Gordon. Trade
of Aberdeen. Prescription 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. Use and importance of
wealth. Elgin. Macbeth's heath. Fores
August 27. Leonidas. Paul Whitehead. Derrick. Ori-
gin of Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of
ecclesiastical subscription. Family worship.

August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton,

Dinner

Contest between Warburton and Lowth.

at Sir Eyre Coote's. Arabs and English soldiers
compared.
The Stage. Mr. Garrick. Mrs.
Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness 10

August 29. Macbeth's Castle. Incorrectness of writers

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

Dictionary

August 30. Dr. Johnson on horseback. A Highland
hut. Fort Augustus. Governor Trapaud
August 31. Anoch. Emigration. Goldsmith. Poets
and soldiers compared. Life of a sailor. Land-
lord'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
Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armi-

Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglin-

eptember 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. 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.
State of those who live in the country.
M'Pherson's Dissertations. Second Sight
eptember 8. Rev. Mr. Donald M'Queen. Mr. Mal-
colm M'Cleod. Sail to Rasay. Fingal, Homer.
Elegant and gay entertainment at Rasay

eptember 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay. Cure

of infidelity.

Dr.

eptember 10. Survey of the island of Rasay. Bentley.

Mallet. Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough.

eptember 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The

Laird of M'Cleod

eptember 12. Sail to Portree. Dr. Johnson's discourse

on death. Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. John-

son and the authour. Dr. Johnson's answer. Ride

to Kingsburgh. Flora Macdonald

eptember 13. Distresses and escape of the grandson of

King James II. Arrive at Dunvegan

eptember 14. Importance of the chastity of women.

Dr. Cadogan. Whether the Practice of authours is

necessary to enforce their Doctrines. Good humour

acquirable

eptember 15. Sir George McKenzie. Mr. Burke's wit,

knowledge, and eloquence

ptember 16. Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy.

His minute knowledge in various arts. Apology

for the authour's ardour in his pursuits. Dr. John-

son's imaginary seraglio. Polygamy

tember 17. Cunning. Whether great abilities are

necessary to be wicked. Teinple of the Goddess

Anaitis. Family portraits. 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

September 19. Choice of a wife. Women an

for men. Lady Grange in St. Kilda.

savages. French Literati. Prize-fighting.

and English soldiers. Duelling TMTM.

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 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 main-
tain 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. French hunting. Young Col. Dr.

Birch. Dr. Percy. Lord Hailes. Historical im-

partiality. Whiggism unbecoming in a clergy-

September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage.
Return to Corrichatachin. Good fellowship
carried to excess.
September 26. Morning's review of last night's intem-
perance. Old Kingsburgh's Jacobite song. Lady
Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky. Different

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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 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 moderate talents requisite to make a figure
in the House of Commons. Dr. Young. Dr. Dodd-
ridge. Increase of infidel writings since the acces-
sion 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 Dictionary. Attacks on authors useful to
them. Return to Armidale.

Emi-

October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales.

German courts. Goldsmith's love of talk.

gration. Curious story of the people of Saint

Kilda

Sail

October 3. Epictetus on the voyage of death.
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 any thing by talking

of it. The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean. Bayle.

Leibnitz and Clarke. Survey of Col. Insular life.

Arrive at Breacacha. Dr. Johnson's powers of

ridicule

October 6. Heritable jurisdictions. The opinion of
philosophers concerning happiness in a cottage,
considered. Advice to landlords

Odber 7. Books the best solace in a state of confine-

ment

ober 8.

Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No
redress for a man's name being affixed to a foolish

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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 Highland tradition. Dr. John-
son's delicacy of feeling
October 10. Dependence of tenants on
London and Pekin compared.

son's high opinion of the former
October 12. Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's. Other super-
stitions beside those connected with religion. Dr.
Johnson disgusted with coarse manners.
His pecu-
liar 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.
Addison not much conversant with Italian litera-
ture. The French masters of the art of accommo-
dating 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 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.

Sir Allan Mac-

None but theological

Arrive at Inchkenneth.

lean and his daughters.

books should be read on Sunday. 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

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