[{142}] Sydney, no date.
[{144}] Phantasms, ii., 586, quoting (apparently) the Buckingham Gazette of the period.
[{145a}] Oddly enough a Mr. William Soutar, of Blairgowrie, tells a ghost story of his own to the S.P.R.!
[{145b}] I put them for convenience at the foot.—W. L. L.
[{146a}] The dogs in all these towns (farms) of Mause are very well accustomed with hunting the fox.
[{146b}] Blair (Blairgowrie) is the kirk-town of that parish, where there is also a weekly market: it lies about a mile below Middle Mause on the same side of the river.
[{146c}] Knockhead is within less than half a mile of Middle Mause, and the Hilltown lies betwixt the two. We see both of them from our window of Craighall House.
[{148a}] This George Soutar died about two or three years ago, and was very well known to William.
[{148b}] The Isle is a spot of ground in the wood of Rychalzie, about a mile above Middle Mause, on the same side of the river.
[{149a}] Glasclune is a gentleman of the name of Blair, whose house lies about three-quarters of a mile south-west from Middle Mause.