CONTENTS.

DEDICATION.

ADVERTISEMENT.

INTRODUCTION. Character of Dr. Johnson. He arrives in Scot-
land.

August 15. Sir William Forbes. Practice of the law. Emigra-
tion. Dr. Beattie and Mr. Hume. Dr. Robertson. Mr.
Burke's various and extraordinary talents. Question con-
cerning genius. Whitfield and Wesley. Instructions to po-
litical parties. Dr. Johnson's opinion of Garrick as a trage.
dian.

August 16. Ogden on Prayer. Aphoristick writing. Edinburgh
surveyed. Character of Swift's works. Evil spirits and witch-
craft. Lord Monboddo and the Ouran-Outang.

August 17. Poetry and Dictionary writing. Scepticism. Eternal
necessity refuted. Lord Hailes's criticism on The Vanity of
Human Wishes. Mr. Maclaurin. Decision of the Judges in
Scotland on literary property.

August 18. Set out for the Hebrides.

character. Trade of Glasgow.

Sketch of the authour's

liamentary knowledge. Influence of Peers. Popular clam-

ours. Arrive at St. Andrews.

August 19. Dr. Watson. Literature and patronage.

Writing and

The Union.
Retirement
Question con-

conversation compared. Change of manners.
Value of money. St. Andrews and John Knox.
from the world. Dinner with the Professors.
cerning sorrow and content. Instructions for composition.
Dr. Johnson's method. Uncertainty of memory.

August 20.

Effect of prayer.

Observance of Sunday. Professor
Shaw. Transubstantiation. Literary property. Mr. Tyers's
remark on Dr. Johnson. Arrive at Montrose.

August 21. Want of trees. Laurence Kirk. Dinner at Monbod-
do. Emigration. Homer. Biography and history compared.

Decrease

Decrease of learning. Causes of it. Promotion of Bishops.

Warburton. Lowth. Value of politeness. Dr. Johnson's

sentiments concerning Lord Monboddo. Arrive at Aber-

deen.

August 22.

Pre-

Professor Thomas Gordon. Publick and private edu-
cation. Sir Alexander Gordon. Trade of Aberdeen.
scription 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.

Nabobs.

Derrick.

August 25. The advantage of being on good terms with relations.
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.

Origin of

Evil. Calder-manse. Reasonableness of ecclesiastical sub-

scription. Family worship.

August 28. Fort George. Sir Adolphus Oughton. Contest be-
tween Warburton and Lowth. Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote's.
Arabs and English soldiers compared. The Stage. Mr. Gar-
rick, Mrs. Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive. Inverness.
August 29.

Macbeth's Castle. Incorrectness of writers of Trav-
els. Coinage of new words. Dr. Johnson's Dictionary.

August 30. Dr. Johnson on horse-back. A Highland hut. Fort

Augustus. Governour Trapaud.

August 31. Anoch. Emigration. Goldsmith. Poets and sol-

diers compared. Life of a sailor. Landlord'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.

September 2. Dr. Johnson relents. Isle of Sky. Armidale.

September 3. Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglintoune.

September 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. Dr. M'Pherson's Disserta-

tions. Second Sight.

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

Sail to Rasay. Fingal.

tainment at Rasay:

Homer.

Elegant and gay enter-

Cure of infidelity.

Bentley. Mallet.

September 9. Antiquity of the family of Rasay.
September 10. Survey of the island of Rasay.
Hooke. Duchess of Marlborough.

September 11. Heritable jurisdictions. Insular life. The Laird

of M'Cleod.

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 M'Donald.

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 M'Kenzie. Mr. Burke's wit, knowledge

and eloquence.

September 16. Dr. Johnson's hereditary melancholy. His minute

knowledge in various arts. Apology for the authour's ardour
in his pursuits. Dr. Johnson's imaginary seraglio. Polygamy.
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.
Mr. Pennant's Tours criticised.

September 18. Ancient residence of a Highland Chief. Languages
the pedigree of nations. Laird of the Isle of Muck.

Women an over-match for men.
Poetry of savages. French Lit-

September 19. Choice of a wife.
Lady Grange in St. Kilda.
erati. Prize-fighting. French and English soldiers. Duelling.