[320] Letters from Edinburgh, p. 12.
[321] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 653.
[322] Cockburn’s Memorials of his Time, p. 183.
[323] Scots Magazine for 1768, p. 115.
[324] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 314.
[325] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 654, and W. Creech’s Letters to Sir John Sinclair, p. 9. Creech gives the number of cartloads at eighteen hundred.
[326] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, and Francis Douglas’s General Description of the East Coast of Scotland, 1782, p. 9.
[327] Burton’s Life of Hume, ii. 458.
[328] Ib. ii. 462.
[329] Letters of David Hume to William Strahan, p. 227.