135

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 Disserta-

tions. Second Sight.

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

Sail to Rasay. Fingal. Homer. Elegant and gay entertain-

ment at Rasay.

138

140

147

148

September 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay. Cure of infide-

lity.

September 10. Survey of the island of Rasay. Bentley. Mallet.

Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough.

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird

of M'Cleod.
156

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 Mac-

donald.

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159

166

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 Mackenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, know-

ledge, and eloquence.

192

196

September 16. Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy. His mi-

nute knowledge in various arts. Apology for the authour's

ardour in his pursuits. Dr. Johnson's imaginary seraglio.

Polygamy.

198

Mr.

202

September 17. Cunning. Whether great abilities are necessary

to be wicked. Temple of the Goddess Anaitis. Family Por-

traits. Records not consulted by old English historians.

Pennant's Tours criticised.

September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief. Lan-

guages the pedigree of nations. Laird of the Isle of Muck 207

September 19. Choice of a wife. Women an overmatch for men.

Lady Grange in St. Kilda. Poetry of savages. French lite-

rati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duel-

ling.

September 20. Change of London manners.

212

Laziness censur-

C

ed. Landed and traded interest compared.

dered.

Gratitude consi-

216

September 21. Description of Dunvegan. Lord Lovat's Py-

ramid. Ride to Ulinish. Phipps's Voyage to the North

219

222

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 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. Gar-
rick. 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. Pres-

byterian clergy deficient in learning.

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

Percy. Lord Hailes. Historical impartiality. Whiggism

unbecoming in a clergyman.

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227

238

September 25. Every island a prison. A Sky cottage. Return

to Corrichatachin. Good fellowship carried to excess. 240.

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.

243

September 27. Dr. Johnson's popularity in the Isle of Sky. His

246

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. 248

September 29. Reverend Mr. M'Pherson. Shenstone. Ham-

253

mond. Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

September 30. Mr. Burke the first man every where. Very mode-

rate 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. 255

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

Dictionary. Attacks on authours useful to them. Return to

Armidale.

October 2. Old manners of great families in Wales. German

courts. Goldsmith's love of talk. Emigration. Curious story

of the people of Saint Kilda.

260

264

270

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 dedi-

cations 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.

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272

278

October 7. Books the best solace in a state of confinement. 280

October 8. Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson. No redress for a

Lady Sidney

Col's cabi-

man's name being affixed to a foolish work.

Beauclerk. Carte's Life of the Duke of Ormond.

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

island of Col.

281

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

bability of Highland tradition. Dr. Johnson's delicacy of feel-

ing.

288

290

October 10. Dependence of tenants on landlords.

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

opinion of the former.

291

October 12. Return to Mr. M'Sweyn's. Other superstitions be-

side those connected with religion. Dr. Johnon disgusted with

coarse manners. His peculiar habits.

292

294

October 13. Bustle not necessary to dispatch. Cats the food not

of the Scotch alone.

October 14. Arrive in Mull. Addison's Remarks on Italy. Ad-
dison not much conversant with Italian literature. The
French masters of the art of accomodating literature. Their
Ana. Racine. Corneille. Moliere. Fenelon. Voltaire.

295

Bossuet. Massillon. Bourdaloue. Virgil's description of the

entrance into hell, compared to a printing-house.

October 15. Erse poetry. Danger of knowledge of music. The

propriety of settling our affairs so as to be always prepared

for death. Religion and literary attainments not to be descri-

bed to young persons as too hard. Reception of the tra-

vellers in their progress. Spence.

301

310

October 16. Miss Maclean. Account of Mull. The value of an

oak walking-stick in the Hebrides. Arrive at Mr. McQuarrie's

in Ulva. Captain Macleod. Second Sight. Mercheta Mulie-

rum, and Borough-English. The grounds on which the sale

of an estate may be set aside in a court of equity.

305

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 High-

lander. 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. Sin-

gular custom in the islands of Col and Otaheité. Further eulo-

gium 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 credulité des incredules. Coast

of Mull. Nun's Island. Past scenes pleasing in recollection.

Land on Icolmkill.

October 20.

314

318

Sketch of the ruins at Icolmkill. Influence of so-

lemn scenes of piety. Feudal authority in the extreme.

turn to Mull.

Re-

323

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 Loch-

buy. Description of the laird.

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326

330

Pope and Cowley compared.

October 22. Uncommon breakfast offered to Dr. Johnson, and re-

jected. Lochbuy's war-saddle. Sail to Oban.

October 23. Goldsmith's Traveller.

Archibald Duke of Argyle. Arrive at Inveraray. Dr. John-

son drinks some whisky, and assigns his reason. Letter from

the authour to Mr. Garrick. Mr. Garrick's answer.

October 24. Specimen of Ogden on Prayer. Hervey's Medita-

332

tions.

Dr. Johnson's Meditation on a Pudding.
a Pudding. Country

neighbours. The author's visit at the castle of Inveraray.

Perverse opposition to the influence of Peers in Ayrshire., 338

October 25. Dr. Johnson presented to the Duke of Argyle. Gran-

deur 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 concern-

ing 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. Ar-

rive at Sir James Colquhoun's.

343

348

His

October 27. Dr. Johnson's letter to the Duke of Argyle.

grace's answer. Lochlomond. Dr. Johnson's sentiments on

dress. Forms of prayer considered. Arrive at Mr. Smollet's

351

October 28. Dr Smollet's Epitaph. Dr. Johnson's wonderful me-

mory. His alacrity during the Tour. Arrive at Glasgow. 355

October 29. Glasgow surveyed. Attention of the professors to Dr.

Johnson.

October 30, Dinner at the Earl of Loudoun's.

359

Character of

360

362

that nobleman. Arrive at Treesbank.

October 31. Sir John Cunningham of Caprington.

November 1. Rules for the distribution of charity. Castle of
Dundonald. Countess of Eglintoune. Alexander Earl of
Eglintoune.

ib.

November 2. 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.

365

366

November 4. Auchinleck. Cattle without horns. Composure of

mind how far attainable.

November 5. Dr. Johnson's high respect for the English clergy.

368

371

November 6. Lord Auchinleck and Dr. Johnson in collision. ib.

November 7. Dr. Johnson's uniform piety. His dislike of pres-

byterian worship.

373

ib.

The Duke of Hamilton's house. Arrive at Edin-

374

November 10. Lord Elibank, Difference in political principles