Shall yield to everlasting Spring.’
[694]. Letter by a clansman of the deceased. Edin. Ev. Courant.
[695]. Culloden Papers, p. 111. Edin. Ev. Courant, Oct. 9, 1729. This chronicle adds: ‘They named the bridge where the parties met Oxbridge.’ A statement which appears somewhat inconsistent with one already made in our general account of the Highland roads.
General Stewart of Garth, in his interesting book on the Highland Regiments, makes an amusing mistake in supposing that General Wade here condescended to be entertained by a set of cearnochs, or cattle-lifters.
[696]. Notes to 2d ed. of Burt’s Letters. There being a distinction between natural tracks, such as formerly existed in the Highlands, and made roads, and ‘made’ being used here in a secondary and technical sense, it is not absolutely necessary to suppose, as has been supposed, that the author of this couplet was an Irish subaltern quartered at Fort William.
[697]. In May 1711, the ‘relict’ of Sir John Medina, limner, advertised her having for sale ‘a great many pictures of several of the nobility, gentry, and eminent lawyers of this nation,’ at her lodging, ‘the first stone land above the Tron Church, second story.’—Ed. Ev. Courant.
[698]. Daniel Wilson states, in his work, Edinburgh in the Olden Time, that Scougal possessed Sir James Steuart’s house in the Advocates’ Close, and there fitted up an additional floor as a picture-gallery.
[699]. The document is fully printed in the Edin. Annual Register for 1816.
[700]. Caledonian Mercury.
[701]. Analecta, iv. 86, 162.