Education: At Inverness 23; at Aberdeen 109; only English taught 51; girls The Highland Character: Agility 75; want of dexterity 25; laziness 75; hospitality 43, 59, (5) The former system of subordination: Described 82; responsibility of clan for crimes of individuals 39; Hereditary jurisdiction 41, 77; contempt of higher authority 41; The Tacksmen 78. The People: Pride of ancestry 42; know no law but the laird's will 77; muddy (6) The present system of insular life : Effects of the laws on dress 45; of the disarmament 81-2; of the The Chiefs: Art of spending 77; loss of influence 81; of armed retinue and military The Tacksmen: No longer hereditary 78; supposed uselessness 78-80, 123; those of The People: Loss of the old character 51; poverty generally abated 51; lower 497 II. NAMES OF PERSONS AND BOOKS Allusions to persons not actually named are indicated by square brackets. k k Bacon, Francis, 99; quoted, 216, 315; History of Henry VII, 306. Bailey, Nathan, English Dictionary, Baker's Chronicle 166, 262. Banks, Sir Joseph, 128, 229, 325, 385. Barber, Francis, 192. Barnard, Dr., see Kilaloe. Barnes, Joshua, 416. William, Anacreon, 415. (or Bethune), Rev. Mr., 298, Beattie, Dr. James, 168, 169, 177, Bentley, Richard, 319, 413; 'no Blacklock, Dr., 'the blind bard', Robert, 175. Buccleugh, Duke of, 250. Buchanan, George, 5, 14, 278, 310, Budgell, Eustace, 193. Buffon, powers of conversation, 313. Burke, Edmund, never made a state of allusion', 301; 'the first man Burke, Richard, 229. Burnet, Gilbert, History of bis Own Thomas, the theoretical Burnett, see Monboddo. Burney, Dr. Charles, 204, 229. Samuel, Hudibras, 196, 310; Cadogan, Dr., on the gout, 299. Caledonian Mercury 378. Camerons, 121, 359-60. See Lochiel. Hon. Archibald, 401–2. General, 194, 334. Dr. John, Britain (Britannia Rev. John, 413. , Rev. Principal, 216. a factor, 371. a tacksman, 384, 389. of Treesbank, 413. Capel, Lord, 433. Carlisle of Limekilns, 373. Carre, Rev. Mr., 176. Carstares, State Papers, 312. Carte, Thomas, Life of Ormond, Elphinston, Bishop (not Archbishop), Gardenston, Lord, 206–7. Garrick, David, 327, 343; in Gataker, Thomas, Of the Nature George I 331. II 331; 395-6, 433- 'Great George', III, [238], [280], [417]. Gerrard, Dr., 216–18, 241. Gibbon, Edward, 229; an eloquent Gifford, Rev. Richard, author of Gilbert, Geoffrey, Law of Evidence, |