[33] This story is told with variations in the name of the parish and number of interments.
[34] The story of this entombment alive is told in my Geological Sketches at Home and Abroad, p. 71.
[35] Kay’s Edinburgh Portraits, vol. i. p. 57.
[36] There are various versions of this story; and different towns are assigned as that to which it refers. I heard it more than forty years ago in the form given above.
[37] Life of Chalmers, iv. p. 462.
[38] Opening Address to Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1st December, 1862. The distinguished author expresses regret that a certain feeling of patriotism did not still keep a portion of the labours of the Scottish geologists for the Transactions of the Scottish Royal Society, and he makes a kindly and half prophetic allusion to my own probable removal to London. I may here say that I never forgot his words, and that I have considered it a duty as well as a pleasure, even when no longer resident in Scotland, to send some of the results of my researches to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
[39] This and the next paragraph are taken with some alterations from my Life of A. C. Ramsay.
[40] Journey of a Tour to the Western Islands, 1757, p. 124.
[41] Burt’s Letters, vol. ii., p. 28.
[42] Burt in his Letters says that he found these lines scribbled on the window with the initials A. H. at the end of them, and he conjectured them to be Hill’s. They were afterwards included in the poems of that writer, who seems to have had a passion for thus disfiguring window-panes, for he has collected a series of his verses ‘written on windows in several parts of the kingdom in a journey to Scotland.’