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Education:

At Inverness 23; at Aberdeen 109; only English taught 51; girls
educated at home 94; frequency of books in gentlemen's houses 48, 246,
255, 262, 331, 335, 339, 358; general illiteracy 58, 102; knowledge of
English 31.

The Highland Character:

Agility 75; want of dexterity 25; laziness 75; hospitality 43, 59,
142, 253, 261, 267, 297; honesty 37, 251; civility 25; supposed inquisi-
tiveness 93; poverty 92; contempt of Lowlanders 31; political tenets
96; loyalty to House of Hanover 295; attitude to beggars 117; girls
all gentlewomen 32; rapidity of rumour 47.

(5) The former system of subordination:

Described 82; responsibility of clan for crimes of individuals 39;
robbery 40; quarrels 40; prescriptive claims 103; rent paid in kind 103.
The Chiefs:

Hereditary jurisdiction 41, 77; contempt of higher authority 41;
the last open war 41; alliances 53, 121, 273; feuds 61, 66, 111, 122;
estates seldom alienated 77; despotic power 77.

The Tacksmen 78.

The People:

Pride of ancestry 42; know no law but the laird's will 77; muddy
mixture of pride and ignorance 81; every man a soldier 83; a pernicious
animal in time of peace 83.

(6) The present system of insular life :

Effects of the laws on dress 45; of the disarmament 81-2; of the
abolition of local jurisdiction 83-4, 274.

The Chiefs:

Art of spending 77; loss of influence 81; of armed retinue and military
importance 81; expect more rent as they have less homage 85; still
reverenced 116, 130, 138; mode of address 139.

The Tacksmen:

No longer hereditary 78; supposed uselessness 78-80, 123; those of
Sky and Col compared 116.

The People:

Loss of the old character 51; poverty generally abated 51; lower
tenants 80; casual labourers 80; uneasiness of discipline 81, 96; resent-
ment of exaction 85; rents 32, 33; emigration 33, 86-8, 90, 119, 246,
263, 267, 276, 295, 318, 330, 346, 361.

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II. NAMES OF PERSONS AND BOOKS

Allusions to persons not actually named are indicated by square brackets.

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Bacon, Francis, 99; quoted, 216,

315; History of Henry VII, 306.
Roger, 186.

Bailey, Nathan, English Dictionary,
445.

Baker's Chronicle 166, 262.
Baliol, John, 294.

Banks, Sir Joseph, 128, 229, 325,

385.

Barber, Francis, 192.
Barclay, James, [343].
Baretti, Joseph, [236].

Barnard, Dr., see Kilaloe.

Barnes, Joshua, 416.
Baxter, Richard, 215.

William, Anacreon, 415.
Bayle on the supernatural, 99;
Bayle and Leibnitz, [110], 353;
his Dictionary, 175.
Beaton, Cardinal, 6, 199.

(or Bethune), Rev. Mr., 298,
311.

Beattie, Dr. James, 168, 169, 177,
216, 226, 344, 404.
Beauclerk, Hon. Topham, 224, 303,
359, [364], 382; says good things
easily, 207; Professor of Natural
Philosophy', 228; could not read
Mrs. Montague's Essay, 323.
Lady Sydney, 359.
Bedford, Duke of, 315.

Bentley, Richard, 319, 413; 'no
man ever written down but by
himself', 344; Bentleys, 374.
Berkley, a boy of Oxford', [343].
Besborough, Lord, 337.
Biographia Britannica, 416.
Birch, Rev. Dr. Thomas, 'like the
river Thames', 331.
Birkenhead, Sir John, 195.

Blacklock, Dr., 'the blind bard',
188, 427, 444-6.

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Robert, 175.

Buccleugh, Duke of, 250.

Buchanan, George, 5, 14, 278, 310,
429.

Budgell, Eustace, 193.

Buffon, powers of conversation, 313.
Bunbury, Sir Charles, 229.

Burke, Edmund, never made a
good joke', 179-80, 301; 'sticks
to a certain set of men' [182];
on Boswell's good humour, 207;
dispute with Johnson on Homer
and Virgil, 209; Professor of
politicks and eloquence', 228;
copiousness, and fertility of

state of

allusion', 301; 'the first man
every where', 341;
exaltation', 381.

Burke, Richard, 229.

Burnet, Gilbert, History of bis Own
Times, 175, 351, 358; Some
Letters, 148, 461.

Thomas, the theoretical
Burnet', Sacred Theory of the
Earth, 398.

Burnett, see Monboddo.

Burney, Dr. Charles, 204, 229.
Butler, Bishop, Analogy, 189.

Samuel, Hudibras, 196, 310;
Remains, 195.

Cadogan, Dr., on the gout, 299.
Caesar, Julius, 38.

Caledonian Mercury 378.

Camerons, 121, 359-60. See Lochiel.
—, Ewen, 122, 359.
Campbells, 39, 357, 388.

Hon. Archibald, 401–2.
-, Evan, 250.

General, 194, 334.

Dr. John, Britain (Britannia
Elucidata), 44, 379.

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Rev. John, 413.

, Rev. Principal, 216.

a factor, 371.

a tacksman, 384, 389.

of Treesbank, 413.

Capel, Lord, 433.

Carlisle of Limekilns, 373.
Caroline, Queen, 353.

Carre, Rev. Mr., 176.

Carstares, State Papers, 312.

Carte, Thomas, Life of Ormond,

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Elphinston, Bishop (not Archbishop), Gardenston, Lord, 206–7.

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Garrick, David, 327, 343; in
Hamlet, 183; 'Professor
publick speaking', 228; his uni-
versality, 239; a bad witness,
322-3; letters to and from, 394-6;
contrasted with Foote, 425.
Gastrell, Bishop, Christian Institutes,
378.

Gataker, Thomas, Of the Nature
and Use of Lots and The Spiritual
Watch, 363.
Gay, John, 354.

George I 331.

II 331;

395-6, 433-

'Great

George',

III, [238], [280], [417].

Gerrard, Dr., 216–18, 241.

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Gibbon, Edward, 229; an eloquent
historian' [294].

Gifford, Rev. Richard, author of
Contemplation, 234.

Gilbert, Geoffrey, Law of Evidence,
423.

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