[638] “With virtue weighed what worthless trash is gold.”
[639] Knox’s Tour through the Highlands, p. 142.
[640] “In the year seventy-one they had a severe season remembered by the name of the Black Spring, from which the island has not yet recovered. The snow lay long upon the ground, a calamity hardly known before.” Johnson’s Works, ix. 74.
[641] Croker’s Boswell, ed. 1835, iv. 322-9.
[642] Croker Correspondence, ii. 33.
[643] Croker’s Boswell, p. 334.
[645] Knox’s Tour, p. 152.
[646] Scotland and Scotsmen of the Eighteenth Century, i. 173.
[647] Knox’s Tour, p. 143.