Roslin Castle and Hawthornden.
Dr. Johnson's _Parody of Sir John Dalrymple's Memoirs_. Arrive at
Cranston. Dr. Johnson's departure for London. Letters from Lord Hailes
and Mr. Dempster to the authour. Letter from the Laird of Rasay to the
authour. The authour's answer. Dr. Johnson's Advertisement,
acknowledging a mistake in his _Journey to the Western Islands_. His
letter to the Laird of Rasay. Letter from Sir William Forbes to the
authour. Conclusion.
HE WAS OF AN ADMIRABLE PREGNANCY OF WIT, AND THAT PREGNANCY
MUCH IMPROVED BY CONTINUAL STUDY FROM HIS CHILDHOOD:
BY WHICH HE HAD GOTTEN SUCH A PROMPTNESS IN EXPRESSING HIS
MIND, THAT HIS EXTEMPORAL SPEECHES WERE LITTLE INFERIOR TO
HIS PREMEDITATED WRITINGS. MANY, NO DOUBT, HAD READ AS MUCH,
AND PERHAPS MORE THAN HE; BUT SCARCE EVER ANY CONCOCTED
HIS READING INTO JUDGEMENT AS HE DID[8].
_Baker's Chronicle_ [ed. 1665, p. 449].
THE
JOURNAL
OF A
TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES
WITH
SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.
Dr. Johnson had for many years given me hopes that we should go
together, and visit the Hebrides[9]. Martin's Account of those islands
had impressed us with a notion that we might there contemplate a system
of life almost totally different from what we had been accustomed to
see; and, to find simplicity and wildness, and all the circumstances of
remote time or place, so near to our native great island, was an object
within the reach of reasonable curiosity.
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