[681]. At the end of the voyage, he took the curragh upon his back, and trudged back to the point of departure. An example of this primitive kind of canoe was exhibited at the archæological museum connected with the British Association at Aberdeen, September 1859.
[682]. [Leslie’s] Survey of the Province of Moray, 1798, p. 267. Anderson’s British Poets, viii. 655.
[683]. Analecta, passim.
[684]. Private Letters, &c., p. 66; also newspapers of the day.
[685]. Wodrow’s Analecta, iv. 97.
[686]. See under the year 1716 for some notice of her Grace’s services to the country as a promoter of agricultural improvements.
[687]. Faculty Records, quoted in Analecta Scotica, ii. 170. The plate of Sallust is now shewn under a glass-case in the Advocates’ Library.
[688]. Biog. Memoirs of William Ged. Nichols, London, 1781. To a daughter of Ged, it was proposed that the profits of this publication, if any, should be devoted; hence it may be inferred that the family continued poor.
[689]. Mores’s Narrative of Block-printing, with Notes, apud Topham and Willett’s Memoir on the Origin of Printing. Newcastle, 1820.
[690]. Maitland’s History of Edinburgh, p. 460.