[628] Voyage to the Hebrides, ed. 1774, p. 291.
[629] Scotland and Scotsmen in the Eighteenth Century, ii. 410, 415.
[630] Page 164.
[631] Johnson seems to use this word in much the same sense as Caliban does when he speaks of Prospero’s “brave utensils” (The Tempest, act iii. sc. 2). In his Journey, he says that in the Hebrides “they use silver on all occasions where it is common in England, nor did I ever find a spoon of horn but in one house.”
[632] This was Johnson’s estimate, based on the number of men who took part in the Rebellion of 1745. The population in 1881 was 750.
[633] Lectures on the Early History of Institutions, ed. 1875, p. 101.
[634] E. Topham’s Letters from Edinburgh, p. 264.
[635] I am much indebted to Mr. A. E. Stewart, of Raasay, for his kindness in showing me whatever there was to see, and for his present of the photograph of the old castle.
[636] Croker’s Boswell, p. 826.
[637] Letters from Edinburgh, pp. 33, 37.