FOOTNOTES:

[1] It may be objected that this story pertains more to the seventeenth than the eighteenth century; but, as the man Roderick was alive in the last century, I claim him as belonging to it.

[2] ‘The History of St. Kilda,’ etc. By the Rev. Mr. Kenneth Macaulay. London, 1764.

[3] ‘Description of the Western Isles of Scotland, called Hebrides,’ etc.

[4] Harris.

[5] Scottice, are without.

[6] ‘A Late Voyage to St. Kilda, the Remotest of all the Hebrides,’ etc., London, 1698.

[7] Head-dress.

[8] Venus, her lap dog.