[548] This account I owe to the kindness of Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh, of Old Lodge, Elgin, who has copied it from a manuscript in his possession which was written at least as early as the year 1837. To him also I am indebted for the sketch of the old piazzas.
[549] Dunbar’s Social Life in Former Days, i. 276.
[550] Defoe’s Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland, iii. 193.
[551] The Elgin Courant and Courier, Aug. 23, 1889.
[552] Walpole’s Letters, vii. 484. It was only one ship that was lost, though in it the lead of two cathedrals was conveyed.
[553] Boswell’s Johnson, vi. xxxiii.
[554] The language of the Highlanders is generally called Erse by the English writers of this period; sometimes Irish and Celtic. M’Nicol objected to the term Erse. “The Caledonians,” he says, “always called their native language Gaelic.” Remarks on Johnson’s Journey, p. 432. Macpherson, in the title-page of Ossian, calls it Galic.
[555] Murray’s Handbook for Scotland, ed. 1867, p. 308.
[556] Wesley’s Journal, iii. 182.
[557] Life of Lord Macaulay, ed. 1877, i. 6.