[250] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1771, p. 543.
[251] Boswell’s Johnson, v. 172. There are inns in the Hebrides where the same deficiency is still found.
[252] Gray calls Geneva “neat,” and the repast which was set before him at the “Grande Chartreuse” “extremely neat.” Gray’s Works, ed. 1858, ii. 62, 63.
[253] Humphry Clinker, ii. 221, and Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 241.
[254] Reekiana, by Robert Chambers, p. 227: “The house was situated at the head of Dickson’s Close, a few doors below Niddry Street.” I have found all these names, except Stirling’s, in the recent interesting reprint of the Edinburgh Directory for 1773-4, published by William Brown, Edinburgh, 1889.
[255] “Stenchel. An iron bar for a window.” Jamieson’s Scottish Dictionary.
[256] Tirlesing is not given by Jamieson.
[257] The City Cleaned and Country Improven, Edinburgh, 1760, p. 5.
[258] The City Cleaned and Country Improven, pp. 6, 8.
[259] Humphry Clinker, ii. 227. Gardy loo is a corruption of gardez l’eau, a cry which, like so many other Scotch customs and words, bears witness to the close connection which of old existed between Scotland and France.