[572]. Probably some attempt had been made to turn to account the foliated gypsum beds which exist near Kelso.

[573]. Poem on the Highland Roads, Wade’s MSS., in possession of Junior United Service Club.

[574]. Edin. Ev. Courant, August 22, 1743.

[575]. Memoirs of George Baillie of Jerviswood and of Lady Grizel Baillie, &c. 1822.

[576]. Chalmers’s Brit. Poets, xiv. 576.

[577]. Celebrated Trials, 6 vols. 1825. Vol. iii. p. 395.

[578]. Memoirs of Lady Grizel Baillie.

[579]. Edin. Ev. Courant, May 9, 1723.

[580]. Wodrow’s Analecta.

[581]. This was the place of worship which Dr Johnson attended when in Edinburgh in 1773. It is now demolished.