[370] Arnot’s History of Edinburgh, p. 598.
[371] Ib. p. 662.
[372] For a penny a cadie was obliged to carry a letter to the remotest part of the town.
[373] Dr. Carlyle’s Autobiography, p. 275.
[374] Gentleman’s Magazine for 1766, p. 168.
[375] Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 66.
[376] Knox’s Tour, p. 9.
[377] Letters of Boswell to Temple, p. 203.
[378] This house for many years—not much less than seventy, I was told—has been occupied as a tailor’s shop. By the kindness of the heads of the firm, Messrs. Lauder and Hardie, I was shown over the building. Though it has been a good deal altered for the purposes of business it is still substantially the same solid stone house which Hume in his prosperity built for the closing years of his life. The rooms are lofty, being about fourteen feet high. The kitchen and the cellars were evidently contrived for a man who intended to boast with justice of his dinners and his wine. From the windows of every floor there must have been an uninterrupted view of the shores of Fife, across the Firth of Forth, and of the house in Kirkaldy, where Adam Smith was living.
[379] Boswell’s Johnson, ii. 441.