[88] No doubt Erskine House, the seat of Lord Blantyre.—J. C. S.
[89] A rock in Borrowdale, Cumberland.—Ed.
[90] The inscription on the pillar was written by Professor George Stuart of Edinburgh, John Ramsay of Ochtertyre and Dr. Samuel Johnson; for Dr. Johnson's share in the work see Croker's Boswell, p. 392.—J. C. S.
[91] Camstraddan House and bay.—J. C. S.
[92] See Ruth, stanza xiii.—Ed.
[93] This distinction between the foot and head is not very clear. What is meant is this: They would have to travel the whole length of the lake, from the west to the east end of it, before they came to the Trossachs, the pass leading away from the east end of the lake.—J. C. S.
[94] She means that they stop work before they are tired.—Ed.
[95] There is a mistake here. His bones were laid about fifteen or twenty miles from thence, in Balquhidder kirkyard. But it was under the belief that his "grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of those pinfold-like burial grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance, which the traveller meets with in the Highlands of Scotland," that the well-known poem on Rob Roy's Grave was composed.—J. C. S.
[96] Goblins' Cave.—J. C. S.