FOOTNOTES:
[1] John Knox’s Tour through the Highlands, pp. 77, 132.
[2] Croker’s Boswell, p. 314.
[3] Croker’s Correspondence, ii. 33; Croker’s Boswell, p. 409.
[4] Johnson’s Works, ix. 36.
[5] Johnson calls this mountain “Ratiken;” Boswell, “the Rattakin.” It is known as Mam-Rattachan. Mam signifies a mountain pass or chasm. See Blackie’s Etymological Geography (ed. 1875), p. 112.
[6] Johnson’s Works, ix. 63.
[7] “The peats at Dunvegan, which were damp, Dr. Johnson called ‘a sullen fuel.’ Here a Scottish phrase was singularly applied to him. One of the company having remarked that he had gone out on a stormy evening, and brought in a supply of peats from the stack, old Mr. M’Sweyn said, ‘that was main honest.’”—Boswell’s Johnson, v. 303.
[8] See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 214, for Boswell’s account.
[9] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 258.