FOOTNOTES:
[1] See Peter Bell, part iii. stanza 31.—Ed.
[2] To a Highland Girl, in "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803."—Ed.
[3] I should rather think so!—J. C. S.
[4] "Capability" Brown.—J. C. S.
[5] Cladich.—J. C. S.
[6] Not very probable.—J. C. S.
[7] Address to Kilchurn Castle, upon Loch Awe.—Ed.
[8] The Pass of Awe.—J. C. S.
[9] The village dame with whom he lived when a school-boy at Hawkshead.—Ed.
[10] Duirinnis.—Ed.
[11] See Resolution and Independence, stanza xiv.—Ed.
[12] Lochnell House.—J. C. S.
[13] Castle Stalker.—J. C. S.
[14] George, seventh Marquis of Tweeddale, being in France in 1803, was detained by Bonaparte, and died at Verdun, 9th August 1804.—J. C. S.
[15] Buchail, the Shepherd of Etive.—J. C. S.
[16] See The Simplon Pass, in "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 69.—Ed.
[17] Suie.—J. C. S. Quære, Luib.—Ed.
[18] The burial-place of Macnab of Macnab.—J. C. S.
[19] It is difficult to know what the Author meant by the First, Second, and Third "Parts" of her Journal; as it is divided into separate "Weeks" throughout. It is not of much consequence however, and the above short "Memorandum"—inserted in the course of the transcript—has a special interest, as showing that the work of copying her Journal was carried on by Dorothy Wordsworth from 1803 to 1805.—Ed.
[20] Monzie probably.—J. C. S.
[21] Glen Ogle.—J. C. S.
[22] Ardhullary.—J. C. S.
[23] This is none other than the well-known Scottish word "gey,"—indifferently, tolerable, considerable.—J. C. S.
[24] See Rob Roy's Grave, in "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 403.—Ed.
[25] See The Solitary Reaper, in "Poetical Works," vol. ii. p. 397, with note appended.—Ed.
[26] See Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. i. pp. 402-7, for an account of this visit. Lockhart says, "I have drawn up the account of this meeting from my recollection, partly of Mr. W.'s conversation, partly from that of his sister's charming 'Diary,' which he was so kind as to read to me on the 16th May 1836."—Ed.
[27] See in the "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803," the Sonnet composed at —— Castle.—Ed.
[28] See in "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803," Yarrow Unvisited.—Ed.
[29] Compare Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. i. p. 403.—Ed.
[30] See in "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803," The Matron of Jedborough and her Husband.—Ed.
[31] Compare Lockhart's Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, vol. i. p. 404.—Ed.
[32] William Laidlaw.—Ed.
[33] The full title was Scenes of Infancy, descriptive of Teviotdale, published in 1803.—Ed.
[34] See "Memorials of a Tour in Scotland, 1803," "Fly, some kind Harbinger, to Grasmere-dale!"—Ed.
[35] This title is given by the editor. There is none in the original MS.—Ed.
[36] Compare the account given of this incident in The Excursion, towards the close of book ii.; also in the Fenwick note to The Excursion.—
Ed.
[37] A curious recast of this journal by his sister was published by Wordsworth, in his Description of the Scenery of the Lakes.—Ed.
[38] A charge was made for wax candles.—D. W.
[39] Compare in Tintern Abbey, ll. 16, 17—
"these pastoral farms,
Green to the very door."Ed.
[40] See Il Penseroso, ll. 109, 110.—Ed.
[41] Compare the sonnet Malham Cove, in "Poetical Works," vol. vi. p. 185.—Ed.
[42] This was when writing out her Journal, begun two months after her return to Rydal Mount.—Ed.
[43] Hockheim on the right bank of the Rhine, nearly opposite Mayence.—Ed.
[44] His first visit to the Alps, with Robert Jones, in 1790.—Ed.
[45] Compare Dorothy Wordsworth's letters written at Forncett rectory in 1790-91.—Ed.
[46] After the sunshine has left the mountain-tops the sky frequently becomes brighter, and of the same hue as if the light from the hills had retreated thither.—D. W.
[47] See the "Poetical Works," vol. vi. p. 315, in "Memorials of a Tour on the Continent, 1820," Scene on the Lake of Brientz.—Ed.
[48] From the Wengern Alp.—D. W.
[49] All these Alps are occupied by owners of land in the valleys, who have a right in common according to the quantity of their land. The cheeses, like the rest of the produce, are the property of all, and the distribution takes place at the end of the season.—D. W.
[50] The Fall of the Reichenbach.—Ed.
[51] Which is in fact the right bank as we were going up the Lake.—D. W.
[52] The head Branch of the Lake of the Four Cantons.—D. W.
[53] There is a mistake here as to the date, which renders all subsequent ones inaccurate.—Ed.
[54] Named Göschenen. It is 2100 feet above the lake of Waldstelles and 3282 above the level of the Vierwaldstädtersee.—D. W.
[55] Ramond gives this name to the whole valley from Amsteg to the entrance of Ursern. Ebel gives to it, altogether, the name of the Haute-Reuss; and says that it is called by the inhabitants the Graccenthal—Göschenen.—D. W.
[56] Hospenthal.—Ed.
[57] Cyclamen.—D. W.
[58] It was not Mont Blanc. He was mistaken, or wanted to deceive us to give pleasure; but however we might have wished to believe that what he asserted was true, we could not think it possible.—D. W.
[59] It is perfectly notorious that this picture suffered more from the negligence of the monks than from the scorn of the French. A hole was broken thro' the lower part of the centre of the picture to admit hot dishes from the Kitchen into the Refectory.—H. C. R.
[60] In Troutbeck Valley especially.—D. W.
[61] Descriptive Sketches.—W. W.
[62] Then established.—D. W.
[63] Joanna Hutchinson.—Ed.
[64] They drove over from Arrochar to Cairndhu.—Ed.
[65] The MS. is headed "Minutes collected from Mem. Book, etc., taken during a Tour in Holland, commenced May 16th, 1823."—Ed.
[66] At Rydal Mount.—Ed.
[67] The house at Cockermouth where William and Dorothy Wordsworth were born. Compare The Prelude, book i.—Ed.
[68] Henry Hutchinson, Mrs. Wordsworth's brother, the "retired mariner" of the 9th Sonnet, composed during Wordsworth's subsequent tour in 1833.—Ed.
[69] Joanna Hutchinson.—Ed.
[70] The house in which they were to stay at Ramsey.—Ed.