Footnote 116: Captain John Scott had been for some time with his regiment at Gibraltar.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 117: Colonel Russell of Ashestiel, married to a sister of Scott's mother.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 118: Crab was the nickname of a friend who had accompanied Ferguson this summer on an Irish tour. Dr. Black, celebrated for his discoveries in chemistry, was Adam Ferguson's uncle; and had, it seems, given the young travellers a strong admonition touching the dangers of Irish hospitality.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 119: These lines are part of a song on Little-tony—i. e., the Parliamentary orator Littleton. They are quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson, originally published in 1791.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 120: Sir A. Wood was himself the son of a distinguished surgeon in Edinburgh. He married one of the daughters of Sir William Forbes—rose in the diplomatic service—and died in 1846.—(1848.)[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 121: This story was told by the Countess of Purgstall on her deathbed to Captain Basil Hall. See his Schloss Hainfeld, p. 333.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 122: See ante, p. 97.[Back to Main Text]
Footnote 123: A servant-boy and pony.[Back to Main Text]
"'Dost fear? dost fear?—The moon shines clear;—
Dost fear to ride with, me?
Hurrah! hurrah! the dead can ride!'—
Oh, William, let them be!'