Historians, the accuracy of, a mo-
dern acquirement, 185.
History of the Isle of Man, by
Sacheverel, 292; English, would
be thought as improbable as
Jewish, if told as shortly, 295.
Hogarth, his caricature of Wilkes
in Flora Macdonald's house,
152.
Hogshead of sense, Johnson so
called in Mull, 290.
Holywell described, 384.
Home, quoted by Boswell, 171;
his tragedy of Douglas discussed,
314, 315.
Homer and Virgil, Johnson's know-
ledge of, 59 n.
Honest man! Johnson so called in
compliment, 227; at Col he is
called "main honest" for help-
ing to bring in fuel, 262; "Ho-
nest man, he is always content,"
Hope, Sir William, his Complete
Fencing Master, 48.
Dr. John, Johnson's compa-
nion to Newcastle on his return
journey to London, 351.
Horace, Joknson quotes, in the
gale going to Rasay, 131.
Hume, David, his house in Edin-
burgh, in which Johnson stayed,
as Boswell's guest, on his first
arrival in Edinburgh, 10; his
delightful and excellent cha-
racter, 17; on the visits of
Charles Edward, 168 n.; a Tory
Johnson says by chance, not by
principle, 233.
Hunting, Johnson rode hard, but
denied being either tired or
amused, 216 n.; English and
French compared, 216 n.
Harlothrumbo, by Samuel John-
son from Cheshire, 254.
Hut, a Highland, visited, 103;
the General's, 104.
Hutchison, William, the honest
drover, 82 n.
Hymn, a quaint old, by Robert
Wisedome, 386 n.
Ignorance, extraordinary instance
of, 94.
Il Cortegiano, by Castiglione, the
best book on good breeding, 236.
Impression, the gradual, made by
Johnson, 233.
Inch Keith visited, 39.
Inch Kenneth, described by Walter
Scott, 279; Johnson's happy
Sunday at, 281; Latin Ode on,
282; ruined chapel in, 284.
Independence, Boswell boasts that
he could not be bribed, and John-
son retorts," Yes, you may be,
by flattery," 364.
Information, the variety of John-
son's, 209, 210.
Inns, only three in Edinburgh
where people could be accommo-
dated in 1773, 9.
Instruction and information, John-
son has the happy art of gaining,
by making every man he meets
tell him something of what he
knows best, 101.
Inverary reached, 301; account
of the Castle at, 309, 313.
Inverness, the party begin their
Iona, Icoĺmkill, Johnson and Bos.
well congratulate themselves on
Johnson's de-
reaching, 290 ;
scription of in the Journey,
quoted, 290; the ruins of, visited,
Isa, the beautiful little island of,
213; Johnson's glee at the idea,
of settling there and fortifying
it, 213; his health drunk as
owner of it, 213.
Johnson, Charles, author of Ad-
ventures of a Guinea, 235.
Johnstone, Arthur, his poems
vainly sought at Aberdeen,
Joke, the lady who had no notion
of a, but had a mighty unpliable
understanding, 254.
Journal, Boswell's, begun, 42 n.;
read by Johnson, and approved,
192, 224; Boswell writes under
difficulties, 225; Johnson says,
"This will be a great treasure
to us some years hence," 236;
Johnson wishes Boswell's book
was "twice as big," 265.
Journey to the Western Islands,
Johnson's misunderstood, 9;
Boswell wishes he had seen it
before it was published, 84 n.;
quoted on the way to Inverary,
301.
Judge, a, à posteriori, 29.
Juvenal, Johnson quotes, 314, 315.
Keith, Mr., Collector of Excise in
Ayr, entertains Johnson, 99,
Kerr, Mr. James, Keeper of the
Records at Edinburgh, 25.
Kilda, St., History of, by Kenneth
MacAulay, 91; the people of,
take cold when strangers come,
238.
Kilmarnock, Lord, beheaded on
Tower Hill, 79, 80.
Kingsburgh, description of, 149;
the preamble of his bond, 220;
his one song, 222; examined
about the dress of Flora Mac-
donald's maid, 222, 223.
Knox, John, his burial place, 44;
Johnson's indignation at, ibid.,
Ladies, young, education of, 235,
Landlords should hold by a good
tenant, 252; and tenants, 263.
Langley, Rev. Mr., 377.
Language, the pedigree of nations,
Late, Johnson too, in setting out
on the Tour, 270.
Latin, inscriptions should be in, as
more universal and permanent,
122, 319.
Laughing, Johnson's fits of, 213.
Laxity in talking, Johnson's, 306.
Laziness, Johnson says he has been
trying to cure his all his life in
vain, 197.
Learning in England and Scotland
compared, 59.
Lectures, Johnson says he gives all
his, on water, 47.
Leechman, William, on prayer,
50 n.
Dr., principal of the college
at Glasgow, 322.
Leibnitz, Johnson and Dr. Mac-
lean, their amusing dispute about
his character, 246.
Library at St. Andrews compared
with those at Oxford, 46; at
Calder Manse, 93; in the Chap-
ter-house at Worcester, 396.
Life, the, of Johnson, Boswell
collects materials for, 269.
Lindsay, Lady Anne, author of the
beautiful ballad, Auld Robin
Gray,' 348; her compliment to
Johnson, 349.
Literary property, the rights of,
Literature, French and English,
compared, 268.
Liturgy, Johnson discourses on
the advantage of a, 318.
Live while you live, epigram by
Doddridge, 232.
Lleweney-hall, Johnson stays at,
three weeks, 381.
Lochbuy and his Lady, Antedilu-
vians, 296.
Loch Lomond visited, 317.
Lochiern, the harbour reached in
the gale, 242.
Llwyd (Lloyd), Humphry, M.P.,
a Welsh physician, bas-relief of,
in the Church at Denbigh, 383.
Locke, J., his Latin poem prefixed
to Dr. Sydenham's works, 70.
London, Johnson's, quoted, 8.
Loudon, John, Earl of, his fine
character and hospitality, 324;
Lady, his mother, her vivacity
at, 95, 323.
Louis XIV., Voltaire many years
in collecting material for his,
Lovat, Thomas, Lord, pyramid to,
in Durinish Churchyard, 199.
Macaulay, Lord, his criticism on
Mr. Croker's note concerning
Montrose, 257.
Rev. Kenneth, his account of
St. Kilda, 91; called by John-
son a "bigot to laxness," 93.
Rev. John, minister of Inve-
rary, 309, 313 n.; account of
both, 313 n.
Macbeth, Johnson recites from the
tragedy of, 89; the castle of,
100; the heath, 89.
MacCraes, the, account of their
determined mutiny, 112; their
history, 190.
MacCruslick, the, a species of satyr,
John, his letter to Boswell on
receiving a copy of the Journey
to the Western Isles, 356; his-
tory of the family, 357.
and
Macleod's Maidens, 201 n.;
his dining-table, 202.
Macpherson, Dr., his Dissertations
on Ancient Caledonians, 127,
173; his fine Latin ode, 229.
Mr. William, on Macbeth's
heath, 89.
Man of Feeling and Man of the
World, 236.
Manners, change of, 43.
Mansfield, Lord, knows the law of
England as well as a carrier
knows the road, 344; Johnson
compared with, by the people of
Ellon, 73.
Martial, Hay's translation of, 321.
Martin, Mr., his Description of the
Western Isles of Scotland, 1,
2 n.
Mary Queen of Scots, Tytler's
vindication of, 337 n.
Mason, his Heroic Epistle to Sir
W. Chambers, 153.
Meditation on a Pudding, John-
son's joke of a, 305.
Melancholy, Johnson inherited
from his father a vile, 180.
Memory will play strange tricks,
Mercheta Mulierum, an old law,
Methodist, the Duchess of Argyle
accuses Boswell of being one,
311.
Methodists and missions discussed,
341.
Mickle, W. J., his play, the Siege
of Marseilles, 303.
Middlewich, a mean old town, 379.
Mile, Johnson and the Highlanders
cannot agree as to the length of
one, 117.
Millar, Prof. John, tells Scott an
evidently false story of Johnson
and Adam Smith, 370.
Miller, Philip, author of the Gar-
dener's Dictionary, 58 n.
Mine, lead, Johnson and Boswell
visit one, 261.
Molière, one of the three French
poets who, Johnson says "go
round the world," 268.
Moltzer, called Micyllus, 377.
Monboddo, Lord, account of, 55 n.;
Johnson visits, 58-60; his young
son, 60 n.; disputes with John-
son as to the comparative merits
of shopkeepers and savages, 62;
his strange notions ridiculed,
House, a wretched place,
Montagu, Mrs., her essay on
Shakespeare, Mrs. Piozzi's note
on, Boswell's remarks on, and re-
joinder, 209.
Montgomery, Sir James, Lord
Chief Baron at the time when
Johnson wrote the Tour, 15.
Montrose, the Marquis of, hanged
and beheaded, at Edinburgh,
257; Macaulay's criticism on
Mr. Croker's note concerning,
257 n.; letters from, 257-8.
Motion, The, a caricature of Wal-
pole, 244.
Mount Edgeumbe, the grandest
situation in England, but not
equal to that of Slains Castle,
Oak stick, Johnson's, 7; Homeric,
61; lost, or as Johnson said,
stolen as timber, 275.
Oat cakes of graddaned meal, 135.
Oath, a man will say what he will
not swear, 340.
Oban, Johnson reaches, 299.
Occupation, hereditary, customary
in the Highlands, 92.
Ode on the Isle of Sky, Johnson's,
123; to Mrs. Thrale, 126; on
Inch Kenneth, 282, 283.
Ogden on Prayer, Johnson reads
in Boswell's house, 16; discussed,
24; praised, 50; Johnson reads
aloud one of his sermons, 304;
extract from, 304.
O'Kane, the famous Irish Harper,
272.
Ombersley, the only place where
Johnson had as much fruit as he
wished, 396 n.
Orde, Lord Chief Baron, 15 n.
Oriental gardening, account of, by
Sir W. Chambers, 152.
Origin of evil, the, discussed by
Johnson, 319.
Ormond, the Duke of, his expedi-
tion in 1719, 110.
Orrery, all the Lords, were authors,
202 n.; description of one of
them, 203.
Ossian, Johnson avers his disbelief
in, 337; he thinks it would be
easy to write in that style if
Scott's
once you begin, 337;
notes on, 132, 206.
Ostig, pleasant reception at, 228;
Johnson's letter to Macleod from,
228.
Oughton, Sir Adolphus, his learn-
ing and agreeable manners, 29,
96; signs the articles of capitu-
lation with the Macraes, 112.
Paley, Archdeacon, on submission
to government, 169; in sup-
port of the Christian revelation,
Parker, John, of Brownsholme,
Parliament House, Edinburgh,
visited by Johnson, 25.
Parson, the painful humility of a
poor Welsh, 394.
Patagonia, giants said to have.
been found there, 337.
Paternoster, an Italian inquires
who is the author of it? 95.
Patronage of authors, Johnson
thinks, an evil now obsolete, 42.
Peas, Mrs. Thrale's young, 387.
Peers, the House of, and the
House of Commons, 77.
Pembroke, the Earl of, his 'Mili
tary Equitation,' 102.
Penmaen Mawr, the road over to
Bangor described, 388 n.
Pennant, W., his works defended
by Johnson, 186.
Percival, Lady Catharine, John-
son's description of, as "nothing,"
"like sour small beer," 390.
Percy, Bishop, his stream of anec-
dotes, 218.
Peregrinity, a, of dialect, 101.
Peter the Great, his mistake shown
by Johnson, 21.3.
Piazzas, the, in Elgin, 88.
Pistol.
"If his pistol misses fire,
he knocks you down with the
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