[10] My informant placed the scene of this story at the house of a Captain or Colonel Campbell in Mull. There was a Mr. Campbell, one of the Duke of Argyle’s tacksmen, or chief tenants, in that island, who furnished Boswell and Johnson with horses; but it is not mentioned that they went to his house—they certainly did not pass a night there. See Boswell’s Johnson, v. 332, 340.

[11] Johnson’s Works, ix. 142.

[12] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 341.

[13] See Les Confessions, bk. iii.

[14] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 256.

[15] Piozzi Letters, i. 138.

[16] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 337.

[17] See Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, pp. 56, 114, 132.

[18] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 20.

[19] Scots Magazine, 1773, p. 133.