FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Lauder's Proposals for printing the Adamus Exul of Grotius.

[Abridgment of Foreigu History, Gent. Mag. 1794, p. 1001.]

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

1748. Life of Roscommon, acknowl.

1749. 1750.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

Letter on Fire Works.

The RAMBLER, the first paper of which was published 20th of March this year, and the last 17th of March, 1752, the day on which Mrs. Johnson died ', acknowl. Letter in the General Advertiser to excite the attention of the public to the performance of Comus, which was next day to be acted at Drury Lane playhouse, for the benefit of Milton's grand-daughter, acknowl.

Preface and Postscript to Lauder's Pamphlet, entitled "An Essay on Milton's Use and Imitation of the Moderns in his Paradise Lost,' " acknowl.

1755.

acknowl.

FOR THE GENTLEMAN'S MAGAZINE.

* Preface.

A DICTIONARY, with a Grammar and History, of the
ENGLISH LANGUAGE, acknowl.

An Account of an Attempt to ascertain the Longitude
at Sea, by an exact Theory of the Variations of the
Magnetical Needle, with a Table of the Variations
at the most remarkable cities in Europe, from the
year 1660 to 1780, acknowl. This he wrote for Mr.
Zachariah Williams, an ingenious ancient Welsh
gentleman, father of Mrs. Anna Williams, whom he
for many years kindly lodged in his house. It was
published with a translation into Italian by Signor
Baretti. In a copy of it, which he presented to
the Bodleian Library at Oxford, is pasted a character
of the late Mr. Zachariah Williams, plainly written
by Johnson, intern. evid.

1756. An Abridgment of his Dictionary, acknowl.

Several Essays in the Universal Visitor, which there is some difficulty in ascertaining. All that are marked with two asterisks have been ascribed to him, although I am confident, from internal evidence, that we should except from these "The Life of Chaucer,' "Reflections on the State of Portugal," and "An Essay on Architecture." And from the same evidence I am confident that he wrote "Further Thoughts on Agriculture" and "A Dissertation on the State of Literature and Authors." The Dissertation on the Epitaphs of Pope, he afterwards acknowledged, and added to his "Idler."

This is a mistake. The last number of the Rambler appeared on the 14th of March, three days before Mrs. Johnson died. MALONE.

Life of Sir Thomas Browne, prefixed to a new edition of his Christian Morals, acknowl.

In the LITERARY MAGAZINE, or UNIVERSAL REVIEW, which began in January, 1756,

HIS ORIGINAL ESSAYS are,

The Preliminary Address, intern, evid.

An Introduction to the Political State of Great Britain, intern, evid.

Remarks on the Militia Bill, intern, evid.

Observations on his Britannic Majesty's Treaties with the Empress of Russia and the Landgrave of Hesse Cassel, intern, evid.

Observations on the Present State of Affairs, intern. evid.

Memoirs of Frederick III., King of Prussia, intera. cvid.

In the same MAGAZINE his REVIEWS are of the follow. ing books:-"Birch's History of the Royal Society; ""Browne's Christian Morals; " " Warton's Essay on the Writings and Genius of Pope," vol. i.; "Hampton's Translation of Polybius; ""Sir Isaac Newton's Arguments in proof of a Deity;""Borlase's History of the Isles of Scilly; "Home's Experiments on Bleaching;" "Browne's History of Jamaica;" "Hales on Distilling Sea-Waters, Ventillators in Ships, and curing an ill taste in Milk; " "Lucas's Essay on Waters;" "Keith's Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops; "Philo-0phical Transactions," vol. xlix.; Miscellanies by Elizabeth Harrison;""Evans's Map and Account of the Middle Colonies in America; "The Cadet, a Military Treatise;" "The Conduct of the Ministry relating to the present War, impartially examined," intern, evid.

"Mrs. Lennox's Translation of Sully's Memoirs ;" "Letter on the Case of Admiral Byng;" " Appeal to the People concerning Admiral Byng;" "Hanway's Eight Days' Journey" and Essay on Tea;" "Some further particulars in Relation to the Case of Admiral Byng, by a Gentleman of Oxford," acknowl.

Mr. Jonas Hanway having written an angry Answer to the Review of his Essay on Tea, Johnson, in the same collection, made a reply to it, acknowl. This is the only instance, it is believed, when he condescended to take notice of any thing that had been written against him; and here his chief intention seems to have been to make sport. Dedication to the Earl of Rochford of, and Preface to, Mr. Payne's introduction to the Game of Draughts,

acknowl.

Introduction to the London Chronicle, an Evening Paper, which still subsists with deserved credit, acknowl.

"Observations on the Foregoing Letter," i. e. A Letter on the American Colonies.

1757. Speech on the subject of an Address to the Throne after the Expedition to Rochefort; delivered by one of his friends in some public meeting: it is printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for October, 1785,

intern, erid.

The first two paragraphs of the Preface to Sir William Chambers's Designs of Chinese Buildings, &c., acknowl.

1758. THE IDLER, which began April 5. in this year, and was continued till April 5. 1760, acknowl.

An Essay on the Bravery of the English Common Soldiers was added to it, when published in volumes, acknowl.

1759. Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, a Tale, acknowl. Advertisement for the Proprietors of the Idler against certain persons who pirated those papers as they came out singly in a newspaper called the Universal Chronicle, or Weekly Gazette, intern. evid. For Mrs. Charlotte Lennox's English Version of Brumoy," A Dissertation on the Greek Comedy," and the General Conclusion of the Book, intern, evid. Introduction to the World Displayed, a Collection of Voyages and Travels, acknowl.

Three Letters in the Gazetteer, concerning the best plan for Blackfriars Bridge, acknowl.

1760. Address of the Painters to George III. on his Accession to the Throne, intern, evid.

Dedication of Baretti's Italian and English Dictionary to the Marquis of Abreu, then Envoy Extraordinary from Spain at the Court of Great Britain, intern.

evid.

Review in the Gentleman's Magazine of Mr. Tytler's acute and able Vindication of Mary Queen of Scots, acknowl.

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Committee for Clothing the French Prisoners, acknowl. 1761. Preface to Rolt's Dictionary of Trade and Commerce, acknowl.

Corrections and Improvements for Mr. Gwyn the Architect's pamphlet, entitled "Thoughts on the Coronation of George III.," acknowl.

1762. Dedication to the King of the Rev. Dr. Kennedy's Complete System of Astronomical Chronology unfolding the Scriptures, 4to edition, acknowl

Preface to the Catalogue of the Artists' Exhibition, intern. evid.

1763. Character of Collins in the Poetical Calendar, published by Fawkes and Woty, acknowl.

Dedication to the Earl of Shaftesbury of the edition of
Roger Ascham's English Works, published by the
Reverend Mr. Bennett, acknowl.

The Life of Ascham, also prefixed to that edition,
acknowl.

Review of Telemachus, a Masque, by the Reverend
George Graham, of Eton College, in the Critical
Review, acknowl.

Dedication to the Queen of Mr. Hoole's Translation
of Tasso, acknowl.

Account of the Detection of the Imposture of the Cock Lane Ghost, published in the Newspapers and Gentleman's Magazine, acknowl.

1764. Part of a Review of Granger's "Sugar Cane," a Poem, in the London Chronicle, acknowl.

Review of Goldsmith's "Traveller," a Poem, in the
Critical Review, acknowl.

1765. The Plays of William Shakspeare, in eight volumes, 8vo, with Notes, acknowl.

1766. The Fountains, a Fairy Tale, in Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, acknowl.

1767. Dedication to the King of Mr. Adams's Treatise on the Globes, acknowl.

1769. Character of the Reverend Mr. Zachariah Mudge, in the London Chronicle, acknowl.

1770. The False Alarm, acknowl.

1771. Thoughts on the late Transactions respecting Falkland's Islands, acknowl.

1772. Defence of a Schoolmaster; dictated to me for the House of Lords, acknowl.

Argument in support of the Law of Vicious Intromission; dictated to me for the Court of Session in Scotland, acknowl.

1773. Preface to Macbean's "Dictionary of Ancient Geo. graphy," acknowl.

Argument in favour of the Rights of Lay Patrons; dictated to me for the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, acknowl.

1774. The Patriot, acknowl.

1775. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, acknowl.

Proposals for publishing the Works of Mrs. Char-
lotte Lennox, in 3 volumes, 4to, acknowl.
Preface to Baretti's Easy Lessons in Italian and
English, intern, evid.

Taxation no Tyranny: an Answer to the Resolutions
and Address of the American Congress, acknowl.
Argument on the case of Dr. Memis; dictated to me
for the Court of Sessions in Scotland, acknowl.
Argument to prove that the Corporation of Stirling
was corrupt; dictated to me for the House of Lords,
acknowl.

1776. Argument in support of the Right of immediate and personal Reprehension from the Pulpit; dictated to me, acknowl.

Proposals for publishing an Analysis for the Scotch Celtic Language, by the Rev. William Shaw, acknowl.

1777. Dedication to the King of the Posthumous Works of Dr. Pearce, Bishop of Rochester, acknowl. Additions to the Life and Character of that Prelate, prefixed to those works, acknowl.

Various Papers and Letters in favour of the Reverend
Dr. Dodd, acknowl

1780. Advertisement for his Friend, Mr. Thrale, to the Worthy Electors of the Borough of Southwark, acknowl.

First Paragraph of Mr. Thomas Davies's Life of
Garrick, acknowl.

1781. Prefaces, biographical and critical to the Works of the most eminent English poets; afterwards pub lished with the title of the Lives of the English Poets, acknowl.

Argument on the Importance of the Registration of Deeds; dictated to me for an Election Committee of the House of Commons, acknowl.

On the distinction between TORY and WHIG; dictated to me, acknowl.

1 See antè, p. 792., my reasons for disbelieving that there were any such injunctions. - CROKER.

2 This is a strange phrase. What work could it have been that Mr. Boswell was not at liberty to mention? That there was some peculiar meaning here can hardly be doubted. It perhaps may allude to some publications of a Jacobite tendency, written in Johnson's earlier days, and which may have been

On Vicarious Punishments, and the great Propitiation
for the Sins of the World by JESUS CHRIST; dic-
tated to me, acknowl.

Argument in favour of Joseph Knight, an African
Negro, who claimed his Liberty in the Court of
Session in Scotland, and obtained it; dictated to me,
acknowl.

Defence of Mr. Robertson, Printer of the Caledonian
Mercury, against the Society of Procurators in
Edinburgh, for having inserted in his paper a ludi-
crous paragraph against them; demonstrating that
it was not an injurious Libel; dictated to me,
acknowl.

1782. The greatest [part], if not the whole, of a Reply, by the Reverend Mr. Shaw, to a person at Edinburgh, of the name of Clarke, refuting his arguments for the authenticity of the Poems published by Mr. James Macpherson as Translations from Ossian, intern. evid.

1784. List of the Authors of the Universal History, deposited in the British Museum, and printed in the Gentleman's Magazine for December, this year,

acknowl.

VARIOUS YEARS.

Letters to Mrs. Thrale, acknowl.

Prayers and Meditations, which he delivered to the Rev. Mr. Strahan, enjoining him to publish them ', acknowl.

Sermons, left for publication by John Taylor, LL.D., Prebendary of Westminster, and given to the World by the Reverend Samuel Hayes, A. M., intern. evid. Such was the number and variety of the prose works of this extraordinary man, which I have been able to discover, and am at liberty to mention; but we ought to keep in mind, that there must undoubtedly have been many more which are yet concealed; and we may add to the account, the numerous letters which he wrote, of which a considerable part are yet unpublished. It is hoped that those persons, in whose possession they are, will favour the world with them. BOSWELL.

6. The following Letters and Prayer were accidentally omitted from their proper Places.

[JOHNSON TO MR. TOMKESON.

"1st Oct. 1783.

"SIR,I have known Mr. Lowe very familiarly a great while. I consider him as a man of very clear and vigorous understanding, and conceive his principles to be such that whatever you transact with him you have nothing to expect from him unbecoming a gentleman. I am, Sir, your humble servant, SAM. JOHNSON."

JOHNSON TO MR. NICHOLS.

April 12. 1784.

"SIR, I have sent you inclosed a very curious proposal from Mr. Hawkins, the son of Sir John Hawkins, who, I believe, will take care that whatever his son promises shall be performed. If you are inclined to publish this compilation, the editor will agree for an edition on the following terms, which I think liberal enough. That you shall print the book at your own charge. That the sale shall be wholly for your benefit till your expenses are repaid; except that at the time of publication you shall put into the hands of the editor, without price, copies for his friends. That, when you have been repaid, the profits arising from the sale of the remaining copies shall be divided equally between you and the editor. That the edition shall not comprise fewer than five hundred. SAM. JOHNSON."

"Forgive me, O Lord, whatever my mother has suffered by my fault, whatever I have done amiss, and whatever duty I have neglected. Let me not sink into useless dejection; but so sanctify my affliction, O Lord, that I may be converted and healed; and that, by the help of thy holy spirit, I may obtain everlasting life through Jesus Christ our Lord. "Ánd, O Lord, so far as it may be lawful, I commend unto thy fatherly goodness my father, brother, wife, and mother, beseeching thee to make them happy for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen. SAM. JOHNSON."]

§ 3. MR. BOSWELL'S APPENDIX.

1. Dr. Blacklock's Explanatory Letter.

IN justice to the ingenious Dr. Blacklock, I publish the following Letter from him, relative to a passage in p. 278. "TO JAMES BOSWELL, ESQ.

"Edinburgh, Nov. 12. 1785. "DEAR SIR, Having lately had the pleasure of reading your account of the journey which you took with Dr. Samuel Johnson to the Western Isles, I take the liberty of transmitting my ideas of the conversation which happened between the Doctor and myself concerning lexicography and poetry, which, as it is a little different from the delineation exhibited in the former edition of your Journal, cannot, I hope, be unacceptable; particularly since I have been informed, that a second edition of that work is now in contemplation, if not in execution; and I am still more strongly tempted to encourage that hope, from considering that, if every one concerned in the conversations related were to send you what they can recollect of these colloquial entertainments, many curious and interesting particulars might be recovered, which the most assiduous attention could not observe, nor the most tenacious memory retain. A little reflection, Sir, will convince you, that there is not an axiom in Euclid more intuitive nor more evident than the Doctor's assertion that poetry was of much easier execution than lexicography. Any mind, therefore, endowed with common sense, must have been extremely absent from itself, if it discovered the least astonishment from hearing that a poem might be written with much more facility than the same quantity of a dictionary.

"The real cause of my surprise was what appeared to me much more paradoxical, that he could write a sheet of dictionary with as much pleasure as a sheet of poetry. He acknowledged, indeed, that the latter was much easier than the former. For in the one case books and a desk were requisite; in the other, you might compose when lying in bed, or walking in the fields, &c. He did not, however, descend to explain, nor to this moment can I comprehend, how the labours of a mere philologist, in the most refined sense of that term, could give equal pleasure with the exercise of a mind replete with elevated conceptions and pathetic ideas, while taste, fancy, and intellect were deeply enamoured of nature, and in full exertion. You may likewise, perhaps, remember, that when I complained of the ground which scepticism in religion and morals was continually gaining, it did not appear to be on my own account, as my private opinions upon these important subjects had long been inflexibly determined. What I then deplored, and still deplore, was the unhappy influence which that gloomy hesitation had, not only upon particular characters, but even upon life in general; as being equally the bane of action in our present state, and of such consolations as we might derive from the hopes of a future.

"I have the pleasure of remaining, with sincere esteem and respect, dear Sir, your most obedient humble servant, "THOMAS BLACKLOCK."

I am very happy to find that Dr. Blacklock's apparent uneasiness on the subject of scepticism was not on his own account (as I supposed), but from a benevolent concern for the happiness of mankind. With respect, however, to the question concerning poetry, and composing a dictionary, I am confident that my state of Dr. Johnson's position is accurate. One may misconceive the motive by which a person is induced to discuss a particular topic (as in the case of Dr. Blacklock's speaking of scepticism); but an assertion, like that made by Dr. Johnson, cannot be easily mistaken. And, indeed, it seems not very probable, that he who so pathetically laments the drudgery to which the unhappy lexicographer is doomed, and is known to have written his splendid imitation of Juvenal with astonishing rapidity, should have had as much pleasure in writing a sheet of a dictionary as a sheet of poetry." Nor can I concur with the ingeni ous writer of the foregoing letter, in thinking it an axiom as evident as any in Euclid, that "poetry is of easier execution than lexicography." I have no doubt that Bailey, and the mighty blunderbuss of law," Jacob, wrote ten pages of their respective dictionaries with more ease than they could have written five pages of poetry.

If this book should again be reprinted, I shall, with the

utmost readiness, correct any errors I may have cornmitted, in stating conversation, provided it can be clearly shown to me that I have been inaccurate. But I am slow to believe (as I have elsewhere observed) that any man's memory, at the distance of several years, can preserve facts or sayings with such fidelity as may be done by writing them down when they are recent: and I beg it may be remembered, that it is not upon memory, but upon what was written at the time, that the authenticity of my Journal rests. — BosWELL

2. Sir A. Macdonald's Latin Verses.
[See Page 312]

The following verses, written by Sir Alexander (now Lord) Macdonald, and addressed and presented to Dr. Johnson, at Armidale, in the Isle of Skye, should have appeared in their proper place [antè, p. 312.] if the author of this Journal had been possessed of them: but this edition was almost printed off when he was accidentally furnished with a copy by a friend. BOSWELL.

I have not removed these verses to the text, because Mr. Boswell did not think proper to do so in his subsequent edi. tions, and because I really do not profess to understand more than the first stanza. It seems hard to guess what Sir Alexander could have meant by presenting Dr. Johnson with such lines; which are really not much better than the nonsense verses of a school-boy.-CROKER.

Viator, o qui nostra per æquora
Visurus agros Skiaticos venis,
En te salutantes tributim

Undique conglomerantur oris
Donaldiani,-quotquot in insulis
Compescit arctís limitibus mare;
Alitque jamdudum, ac alendos
Piscibus indigenas fovebit.
Ciere fluctus siste, Procelliger,
Nec tu laborans perge, precor, ratis
Ne conjugem plangat marita,

Ne doleat soboles parentem.
Nec te vicissim pœniteat virum
Luxisse-vestro scimus ut æstuant
In corde luctantes dolores,

Cum feriant inopina corpus.
Quidni! peremptum clade tuentibus
Plus semper illo qui moritur pati
Datur, doloris dum profundos

Pervia mens aperit recessus.
Valete luctus ; hinc lacrymabiles
Arcete visus :-ibimus, ibimus
Superbienti qua theatro

Fingaliæ memorantur aulæ.
Illustris hospes ! mox spatiabere
Qua mens ruinæ ducta meatibus
Gaudebit explorare cœtus,

Buccina qua cecinit triumphos.
Audin'? resurgens spirat anhelitu
Dux usitato, suscitat efficax
Poeta manes, ingruitque

Vi solitá redivivus horror.
Ahæna quassans tela gravi manu
Sic ibat atrox Ossiani pater:
Quiescat urnå, stet fidelis
Phersonius vigil ad favillam.

3. Inscription on the Monument of Sir James Macdonald, Bart., in the Church of Slate; and Two Letters from that young Gentleman to his Mother. [Referred to in p. 313. n. 2.]

To the memory

OF SIR JAMES MACDONALD, Bart.
Who, in the flower of youth.

Had attained to so eminent a degree of knowledge
In mathematics, philosophy, languages,

And in every other branch of useful and polite learning,
As few have acquired in a long life
Wholly devoted to study:
Yet to this erudition he joined,
What can rarely be found with it,
Great talents for business,
Great propriety of behaviour,
Great politeness of manners!

His eloquence was sweet, correct, and flowing;
His memory vast and exact;
His judgment strong and acute;
All which endowments, united
With the most amiable temper

And every private virtue,

240. Tirenty-eighth. For the 13th, read 30/h. 241. The peak. Should it not be Peak of Derby, to make it more intelligible, especially on the continent?

245. Fall of Fiers. Lockness and Fall of Fiers -excellent.

247. St. George's. Dele St. The fort was named after King George 11.

247. Great convenience. There is not a communication by water all the way to Inverness, but as there is for the greatest part, the passage is perhaps quite right as it stands.

248. Glenmollison. Read Glenmorison.

256. Glensheals. Read Glensheal: also dele s at the end of Aucknasheals. I believe its inhabitants should be written Macraas.

Your thoughts on the islands are masterly indeed. 264. Auknasheals and the Macraes. Read Aucknasheal and Macraas.

265.

Gordon. Read Murchison. [Antè, p. 427.] 266. The twentieth. For 20th, read 2d.

Reside at Edinburgh. Sir Alexander should be very thankful for your tenderness.

271. Coriatachan. Read Corichatachan. 272.

Were united. In the appendix to Gordon's Itinerarium Septentrionale an account is given of cairns, and of piling and cremation being united among the northern nations.

274. Give no account. Did you not see the women at their meals as well as the men? I take their diet to be the same strong liquor". excellent!

275. Cheshire cheese. I do not think it is Cheshire cheese; they make cheese enough of their own.

278.

Water was calm. You are mistaken in saying the water was calm: the sea was pretty rough, and you may recollect that your spurs were lost.

285. Chiefs. Dele s.

Migration. Is yet a good word here? Should it not be still, or some other expression?" Content and faithful, yet unaffected." No wonder they are unaffected if content and faithful. This may occur to a heedless reader from one sense of the word yet (a remark by my wife). Would as yet be clearer ?

289. Phæacia. Raasay very fine! but is there not some inconsistency between saying "that it affords not much ground, notwithstanding its extent for pasture," and "of black cattle I suppose the number is very great." Perhaps the first passage might be altered to " in proportion to." My wife was delighted with the conclusion of Raasay; but it has occurred to me that "if I could have found an Ulysses" may be construed as not altogether delicate to the laird.

289. And narrow. I do not think Port Re is narrow.

Of the Island. Does this agree with having said "one inn at Sconsor?" It should be Sconser. Might not some sharp rogues lay hold of this in a traveller so rigidly exact as you are? I believe the largest inn of Skye is at Dunvegan: that and the two you have mentioned are the only inns properly so called. There are many huts where whiskey is sold.

298. Macleod. Are you sure it was Macleod who sold the cattle? Was he one of the conspirators?

299. Long genealogy. This is a little anachronism. It was not Ulinist's boatmen, but those who rowed us from Sconser on Saturday, 25th September, who asked about your genealogy. This however is immaterial.

302. Coriatachan- Corichatachan. Your allusion to the gothic romances is admirable.

303. Is minister. Mr. Macpherson is minister of Slate and tacksman of Ostig.

308. Is this description of kelp accurate? Is not kelp the sea-weed after it is calcined? Are not its ashes only ingredients in the composition of glass, as in the composition of soap, and, I believe, some other substances? Upon recollection, I find that kelp is in common language used for the word itself in its original state-they talk of cutting kelp. 312. On a Crate. I do not find the word crate in your dictionary.

312. A turtle feast. Does not "a citizen at a turtle feast " seem to represent him as an image of longevity, as like an eagle. If a citizen should eat turtle as constantly as a cottager eats oaten cakes, would he live as long?

330. Now a wilderness. All this is capital. I am persuaded the king must have his knowledge enlarged and his feelings roused.

339. Bring her husband? In the first edition there was no note of interrogation here, and Boswell asks whether there should not be. There is none in the new Oxford edition.

340. Prevail at last. Your observations on religion should do good.

341. King's palace. You have touched the political tenets of the islanders with a very soft address.

343. Second sight. I am struck to see how your great powers of mind can expand and illustrate a subject. The second sight will henceforth be treated at least with attention by thinking and unprejudiced men.

1 It would seem as if Dr. Johnson had made an imperfect correction here. Murphy's edition has the 28th. In the Oxford works it still stands 13th.- CROKER.

345. Not to believe it. I believe all the ministers in Skye are natives. Mr. Macpherson, who told you that he was resolved not to believe, was born at Ostig, so that he did not come resolved. I am wrong: he was born in the island of Barra.

353. Almost suppressed. See p. 375.

357. Can be found. Your reflections on Highland learning, on bards, and on Ossian, amount to demonstration only how "if any can be found" might be omitted; for I take it to be certain that some wandering ballads are inserted in Ossian. Recite six lines. You are mistaken here; some of them do actually recite many more.

We did

358. Taking in kelp. A trifling inaccuracy here. not leave Skye in a boat that was taking in kelp. It was a boat from Ilay, in which a gentleman had come in search of an emigrant who owed him money; but before he came the emigrant had sailed. You treat, too, the storm too lightly; both Col and all the islanders thought that we were really in danger.

363. Bucacig Read Bracahach.

368. Popish Islands. This page will, I believe, make me yet go to the Popish Islands, but I must have instructions from you in writing.

375. Dronash-Fingala. Read Dowash-Finvola.

Attend the procession. Is this perfectly consistent with the passage at p. 353? Should not one or the other be modified?

380. Mull. Very instructive. Acti labores sunt jucundi, while I read your account.

381. Tabor Morar. Tobermorie;- Mori or Mory, the Erse for Mary.

387. Another little inaccuracy. The master was not on board that night; he was sitting socially with Macquharrie. The sailors were our kind deliverers.

388. Refinements of courtesy. As beautiful as any thing in fiction, yet all exactly true, except the inconsiderable cir cumstance that" we were met by Sir Allan when we landed." We found him in the house, or hut; this, however, is nothing. I figure to myself how many amiable readers will envy us at Inch Kenneth.

389. Plentiful and delicate. This phrase has been used already, as to the tacksmen in Skye, page 369. Would it be better to vary one of them? If you think so, I insist that Sir Allan shall retain it.

392. Inch Kenneth. At the death of Col, my wife wept much. I was deeply affected, though I shed no tear. As Tacitus says, Feminis lugere honestum est — viris meminisse. 395. Gradually obscures. The evening sail - very fine! 396. Iona. I cannot express the grandeur of soul that this passage inspires. I should think numbers would visit lona, to feel it fully.

397. Black stones. Read stone.

Without the blackest. Might not a better word be found for the infamy of violating an oath on the black stone? 401. Mr. Maclean. Read Mr. Macleod. [Antè, p. 427.] 402. Hebrides. Your observations on the castles in the Hebrides, excellent!

407. Higher than the true. I am not conscious of the truth of this observation. I do not recollect instances.

408. Night came on. I am glad to find the grand nightpiece preserved. I remembered it imperfectly: my journal stops at Loch-buys, I know not how but I am continuing it, and you shall read it when we meet.

411. His college. Your account of education in Scotland is just. I repeated it to Lord Monboddo. "He is right," said he.

412. Several places. What places remarkable, and already described, did you find between Glasgow and Auchinleck? I expected to have found something said of the royal castle of Dundonald, where you made me laugh so much with your jokes on king Bob.

Mr. Boswell's sister. Read sister-in-law. Mr. Campbell and I are married to two sisters.

Stony field. Auchinleck has no particular claim to the denomination of a stony field, by which is meant a field much covered with loose pebbles; but Auchinleck is a stony field, and Auchinleck signifies a field of flag stones; now the red rocks there are generally composed of thin strata, or flags.

413. His tenants. You have done Auchinleck much honour, and have, I hope, overcome my father, who has never forgiven your warmth for monarchy and episcopacy. I am anxious to see how your pages will operate upon him. A pedant's. Why call yourself a pedant?

414. Braidwood. Braidwood deserves attention, and you have ensured him celebrity.

416. Is not your concluding paragraph rather too modest? The more I read your journey, the more satisfaction I receive. That the canvas should glow with your rich store of colour was to be expected; but it is wonderful to consider the number and variety of minute objects that you have accurately delineated. There is, in general, much entertainment; but I can hardly conceive how, in so short a time, you acquired the knowledge of so many particulars. BOSWELL.

He means, piling stones on stones till a cairn is raised. -CROKER.