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.