BOSWELL'S

LIFE OF JOHNSON

INCLUDing Boswell's Journal of a tour to the hebrides

And Johnson's diARY OF A JOURNEY into norTH WALES

EDITED BY

GEORGE BIRKBECK HILL, D.C.L..

PEMBROKE College, OXFORD

ALISHTAIND

MINNESOTA

In six vOLUMES

VOLUME V.

TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES (1773)

JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES (1774)

BIGELOW, BROWN & CO., Inc.
NEW YORK

THE COLONIAL PRESS

C. H. SIMONDS CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.

[Title page to the Third Edition.)

THE

JOURNAL

OF A TOUR TO THE

HEBRIDES,

WITH

SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.

By JAMES BOSWELL, Esq.

CONTAINING

Some Poetical Pieces by Dr. Johnson, relative to the Tour,
and never before published ;

A Series of his Conversation, Literary Anecdotes, and Opinions

of Men and Books:

WITH AN AUTHENTICK ACCOUNT OF

The Distresses and Escape of the GRANDSON of KING
JAMES II. in the Year 1746.

THE THIRD EDITION, REVISED AND CCRRECTED.

O! while along the stream of time, thy name

Expanded flies, and gathers all its fame,
Say, shall my little bark attendant fail,
Pursue the triumph and partake the gale? POPE.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY HENRY BALDWIN,

FOR CHARLES DILLY, IN THE POULTRY,

M DCC LXXXVI,

A JOURNEY INTO NORTH WALES IN THE YEAR 1774. 487-524

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