Inverness, v. 128-131;
Boswell preached at, v. 128;
writes to Garrick, v. 347;
Johnson buys _Cocker_, v. 138;
Inverness-shire, v. 150, n. 3;
Iona, Boswell and Johnson visit it, v. 334-338;
Johnson wades to the shore, v. 368;
his famous description, iii. I73, 455; v. 334;
Duke of Argyle present owner, v. 335;
building stones from Nuns' Island, v. 333;
monuments, v. 336;
account of the inhabitants, v. 338;
mentioned, ii. 277; v. 317;
Irish understood by Highlanders, ii. 156; Isa, v. 249, 286;
island, life in an, v. 290, 295;
Johnson shows the spirit of a Highlander, v. 324;
_Johnson_ and _Johnston_, v. 341;
joyous social manners, v. 157;
Kingsburgh, Johnson visits it, v. 179, 183-7;
sleeps in a celebrated bed, v. 185, 187, 189;
Knoidart, v. 149, 190, 199;
landlords diminish their people, v. 300;
infatuated, v. 294;
restraint to be placed on raising the rents, v. 27, n. 3
(See above under chiefs, and below under rents and tenants);
law, want of, ii. 126;
Leven, River, v. 365, n. 2, 367;
Lewis, v. 410;
Little Colonsay, iii. 133;
little wants of life ill supplied, ii. 303;
Loch-Awe, v. 345, n. 1;
Loch-Braccadil, v. 236, 253;
Lochbradale, v. 212;
Lochbroom, v. 194;
Lochiern, v. 283;
Lochlevin, ii. 283;
Loch Lomond, its climate, iii. 382;
Johnson visits it, iv. 179; v. 363-4;
Loch Ness, v. 132, 297, n. 1;
Long Island, v. 187;
longevity, no extraordinary, v. 358, n. 1;
Lorn, v. 120;
Lowlanders scorned, v. 136, n. 1;
M'Craas, the, or Macraes, v. 142-3, 225;
M'Cruslick, v. 166, n. 2;
Macfarlane, Laird of, _the_ Macfarlane, v. 156, n. 3;
Macgregors forced to change their name, v. 127, n. 3;
mapping of the country, ii. 356;
march to Derby, iii. 162;
mile stones removed, v. 183, n. 2;
ministers, v. 224, n. 2;
Moidart, v. 149;
money, admission of, iii. 127;
Morven, v. 280; Moy, v. 341;
Muck, Isle of, v. 225, 249;
Mugstot, v. 148, 188, 259;
Mull, compared with Fleet Street, iii. 302;
Johnson sails for it, v. 279;
carried away to Col, v. 281;
arrives, v. 308;
no post, v. 312, n. 3;
ride through it, v. 318;
'a most dolorous country,' ib., 341;
a great cave, v. 331-2;
_woods_, v. 332;
moonlight sail along the coast, v. 333;
ferry to Oban, v. 343;
Nairne, v. 117;
newspaper, sight of a, v. 323;
noble animal, v. 400;
nomenclature in the Highlands, v. 156, n. 3;
Nuns' Island, v. 333;
Oban, v. 344;
Officers of Justice, want of, v. 177;
Orkneys, ii. 119, n. 1;
Ostig, Johnson visits it, v. 265-75;
parishes, v. 289, n. 1;
peat fires first seen at Nairne, v. 117, n. 3;
cutting peat, v. 306;
periphrastic language, v. 198;
Portawherry, v. 338;
Portree, v. 180-1, 189, 190, 254, 278;
prayer before milking a cow, v. 123;
prisons in the lairds' houses, v. 292, 343;
_quern_, v. 256;
'raise their clans in London,' iii. 399, n. 3;
Rasay, Isle of, approach, v. 164;
explored by Boswell, v. 168-74;
men out in the '45, v. 171;
old castle and new mansion, v. 172;
cave, ib.;
people never ride, v. 173;
animal life, ib.;
burnt in '45, v. 174, n. 1;
no officers of justice, v. 177;
dancing, v. 178;
Johnson's praise of the Isle, iii. 128; v. 178, n. 1, 413;
the Pretender hides there, v. 190-4;
mentioned, ii. 275; v. 150;
Rattakin, v. 144;
reapers singing, v. 165;
reels, iii. 198;
regiments raised by Pitt, iii. 198; v. 149-50;
rentals, v. 165, n. 2, 176, n. 2;
rents paid in bills, v. 254;
in kind, ib., n. 2;
racked, v. 137, 148, n. 1, 149, 150, n. 3, 205, 221, n. 3, 250;
riding in Sky, v. 205;
roads, want of, v. 173;
soldiers at work on them, v. 136;
beginning of one, v. 235, n. 2;
sight of one, v. 322;
Rona, Isle of, v. 165, 172, 412, n. 2;
Rorie More's Cascade, v. 207, 215;
Rosedow, v. 363;
Ross-shire, v. 150, n. 3;
sailors, very unskilful, v. 283, n. 1;
_scalch_ or _skalk_, v. 166;
Scalpa, v. 162;
Sconser, v. 179, 257;
second-sight, believed by all the islanders but the clergy,
v. 227, n. 3;
Boswell's belief, ii. 318; v. 358, 390-1;
Dempster's criticism, v. 407;
Johnson's curiosity never advanced to conviction, ii. 10, n. 3;
'willing to believe,' ii. 318;
hears instances, v. 159-60, 320;
loose interpretations, v. 163-4;
arguments for and against, v. 407, nn. 3 and 4;
_Senachi_, v. 324;
sense, native good, v. 147;
servants in Sky faithless, v. 167;
sheets, want of, in the Highlands, v. 216;
shelties, v. 284;
_shielings_, v. 141;
shops, want of, v. 27, n. 4;
Slate, v. 147, 151, 156, 255;
sleds, v. 235;
Sky, church bells, no, v. 151;
Johnson arrives, v. 147;
leaves for Rasay, v. 162;
returns, v. 180;
leaves finally, v. 279;
his _Ode_, v. l55;
Macdonald, Lady Margaret, beloved there, iii. 383;
one justice of the peace, v. 177;
price upon the heads of foxes, v. 173, n. 2;
Snizort, v. 166;
South Uist, v. 236;
spades used in Sky, v. 235, 261;
Spanish invasion in 1719, v. 140, n. 3;
strangers will never settle in the isles, v. 294, n. 1;
Strath, v. 156, 195;
St. Kilda,
Boswell proposes to buy it, ii. 149;
cold-catching, ii. 51; v. 278;
explanation suggested, ii. 52;
fire-penny tax, iii. 243, n. 2;
Glasgow, St. Kilda's man at, i. 450;
Horace and Virgil studied there, v. 338;
Lady Grange a prisoner, v. 227;
Macaulay's _History of St. Kilda_, ii. 51; v. 118-9;
Martin's _Voyage to St. Kilda_, ii. 51, n. 3, 52, n. 1;
poetry, v. 228;
Staffa, Johnson sees it at a distance, v. 332;
sold, iii. 126, 133;
Strathaven, iii. 360;
Strichen, v. 107;
Strolimus, v. 257;
superstitions, v. 306, n. 1;
tacksmen, v. 156, n. 3, 205, n. 3;
tailors, v. 226;
_taiscks_, v. 160;
Talisker, Johnson visits it, v. 250-56, 266, n. 2, 306, 383;
Tarbat, v. 363;
targets, v. 212;
tartan dress prohibited, v. 162, n. 2;
Teigh Franchich, v. 293;
tenants, combination among them, v. 150, n. 3;
dependent on their landlords, v. 177, n. 1;
fine on marriage, v. 320-1;
Thurot's descent on some of the isles, iv. 101, n. 4;
Tobermorie, v. 308-10, 332;
tradition, not to be argued out of a, v. 303;
translate their names in the Lowlands, v. 341, n. 4;
trusted, little to be, ii. 310;
turnips introduced, v. 293;
Tyr-yi, v. 209, n. 3, 287, 3l2;
Ulinish, v. 224;
Johnson visits it, v. 235-48;
sees a subterraneous house, v. 236;
and cave, v. 237;
gleanings of his conversation there, v. 249, 389;
Ulva's Isle sold, iii. 133;
Johnson visits it, v. 319-22;
violence, Johnson and Boswell fear, v. 139-40;
waves, size of the, v. 251, n. 2;
_wawking_ cloth, v. 178;
wheat bread never tasted by the M'Craas, v. 142;
wheel-carriages, no, v. 235, n. 2;
whisky served in a shell, v. 290;
whistling, a gentleman shows his independence by, v. 358;
'Who _can_ like the Highlands?' v. 377;
_wood_, bushes called, v. 250;
heath, v. 332;
wretchedness of the people in 1810 and 1814, v. 338, n. 1;
Zetland, v. 338, n. 1.
_Scots Magazine_. See under SCOTLAND.
SCOTSMAN, a violent, iii. 170.
SCOTT, Archibald, i. 117, n. 1.
SCOTT, Mr. Benjamin, iii. 459.
SCOTT, George Lewis, iii. 117.
SCOTT, John, afterwards first Earl of Eldon,
Boswell, never mentioned by, iii. 261, n. 2;
trick played on, ib.;
and taste, ii. 191, n. 2;
church-going, iv. 414, n. 1;
deathwarrants, iii. 121, n. 1;
Dunning's way of getting through business, iii. 128, n. 5;
George III, on the making of baronets, ii. 354, n. 2;
Heberden's, Dr., kindness to him, iv. 228, n. 2;
Johnson's visit to Oxford in 1773, ii. 268, n. 2;
Lee, 'Jack,' on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1;
on the India Bill, iii. 224, n. 1;
Norton, Sir Fletcher, character of, ii. 472, n. 2;
Oxford tutor, unwilling to be an, iv. 92, n. 2;
Pitt on the honesty of mankind, iii. 236, n. 3;
port, liking for, iv. 91, n. 2;
Porteus, Bishop, on knotting, iii. 242, n. 3;
portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2;
retirement, after his, ii. 337, n. 4;
Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2;
sermons written by Lord Stowell, v. 67, n. 1;
small certainties, ii. 323, n. 1;
Taylor, Chevalier, anecdote of the, iii. 389, n. 4;
Warton's, Rev. T., lectures, i. 279, n. 2;
Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4.
SCOTT, Mrs. John (Lady Eldon), ii. 268, n. 2.
SCOTT, John, of Amwell,
_Elegies_, ii. 351;
meets Johnson, ii. 338;
dread of small-pox, ib., n. 1.
SCOTT, Sir Walter,
Abel Sampson, a _probationer_, ii. 171, n. 3;
_accommodate_, v. 310, n. 3;
Auchinleck, Lord, anecdote of, v. 382, n. 2;
birth, v. 24, n. 4;
Blair, mistaken about, v. 361, n. 1;
Boswell and the Douglas Cause, v. 353, n. 1;
spoils one of his anecdotes, v. 396, n. 4;
Burns, sees, v. 42, n. 1;
Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2;
charms in the Hebrides, v. 164, n. 1;
clans, order of the, ii. 270, n. 1;
coursing, v. 330, n. 1;
Culloden, cruelties after, v. 196, n. 3;
_Detector's_ letter to him, i. 230, n. 1;
_Dirleton's Doubts_, iii. 205, n. 1;
Dunvegan Castle, v. 2O7, n, 2, 208, n. 1, 233, n. 1;
Errol, Earls of, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1;
Erskine, Dr., v. 391, n. 3;
Finnon haddocks, v. 110, n. 2;
Forbes's generosity to him, v. 253, n. 3;
Forbes, Sir W., lines on, v. 25, n. 1;
Grange, Lady, v. 227, n. 4;
halls of old Scotch houses, v. 60, n. 5;
_Hardyknute_, ii. 91, n. 2;
Highlands, discomforts in the, v. 377, n. 2;
Highlanders forbidden to carry arms, v. 151, n. 1;
Home's tragedies, ii. 320, n. 1;
hospitality, old-fashioned, iv. 222, n. 2;
humble-cow, v. 380, n. 3;
Inch Keith, v. 55, n. 3;
Inchkenneth, v. 322, n. 1;
Iona, v. 338, n. 1;
Johnson and Auchinleck, Lord, i. 96, n. 1; v. 382, n. 2;
and Boswell's voyage highly perilous, v. 283, n. 1, 313, n. 1;
definition of oats, i. 294, n. 8;
on dinners, v. 342, n. 2;
at Dunvegan, v. 208, n. 1;
and _Johnston_, v. 341, n. 4;
_Ode to Mrs. Thrale_, v. 157, n. 3;
and Pot, iv. 5, n. 1;
the 'Sassenach More,' ii. 267, n. 2;
and the Scotch love of planting trees, ii. 301, n. 1;
and Adam Smith, inaccuracy about, v. 369, n. 5;
Kames, Lord, ii. 200, n. 1;
Lovat's monument, v. 235, n. 1;
Mackenzie, Sir George, v. 212, n. 3;
Mackenzie, Henry, i. 360, n. 2;
Maclaurin's mottoes, iii. 212, n. 1;
_Marmion_ quoted, iv. 217, n. 2;
Mickle's _Cumnor Hall_, v. 349, n. 1;
Monboddo, Lord, ii. 74, n. 1; v. 77, n. 3, 78, n. 2;
Nairne, William, v. 53, n. 3;
_Ossian_, v. 164, n. 2;
Pitcairne's poetry, v. 58, n. 1;
Pleydell, Mr. Counsellor, ii. 376, n. 1; v. 22, n. 2;
_Redgauntlet_, introduction, i. 146, n. 2;
Reynolds and Sunday painting, iv. 414, n. 1;
Roslin Chapel, v. 402, n. 4;
scarcity of coin in the Hebrides, v. 254, n. 1;
Scotticism, a, v. 15, n. 4;
second sight, v. 159, n. 3;
sheep's-head, v. 342, n. 2;
Southey, letter from, v. 40, n. 3;
Tobermory, v. 309, n. 1;
_Vanity of Human Wishes_, i. 193, n. 3; iv. 45, n. 3;
Walpole's _History of his own Time_, v. 212, n. 3;
_waulking the cloth_, v. 178, n. 2;
Woodhouselee, Lord, v. 387, n. 4;
writers to the Signet and Sir A. Maclean, v. 343, n. 3;
Young's parody of Johnson's style, iv. 392, n. 1.
SCOTT, Dr., afterwards Sir William Scott, and Lord Stowell;
Blackstone's bottle of port, iv. 91;
Boswell, describes, v. 52, n. 6;
Coulson, Rev. Mr., ii. 381, n. 2; v. 459, n. 4;
Crosbie, Andrew, ii. 376, n. 1;
dinner at his chambers, iii. 261;
exercise of eating and drinking, iv. 91, n. 2;
Johnson,
accompanies, to Edinburgh, i. 462; v. 16, 20-22, 24, 27, 32;
to the scene of the Gordon Riots, iii. 429;
bequest to him, iv. 402, n. 2;
on conversions, ii. 105;
epitaph, iv. 444-5;
executor, iv. 402, n. 2;
friendship with, ii. 25, n. 2; v. 21;
gown, i. 347, n. 2;
horror at the sight of the bones of a whale, v. 169, n. 1;
on innovation, iv. 188;
as a member of parliament, ii. 137, n. 3, 139;
mezzotinto, possesses, iv. 421, n. 2;
presents it to University College, iii. 245, n. 3;
might have been Lord Chancellor, iii. 309;
lectures at Oxford, gave, iv. 92;
Literary Club, member of the, i. 479;
'Ranelagh girl,' describes a, iii. 199, n. 1;
sermons, a writer of, v. 67, n. 1;
University College, fellow of, ii. 440;
mentioned, iv. 344; v. 51.
SCOTT, Mr., 'You, and I, and Hercules,' iv. 45, n. 3.
SCOTTICISMS,
Guthrie's, i. 118, n. 1;
Hume's short collection, ii. 72:
See under BOSWELL, Scotch accents.
_Scottifying_, v. 55.
SCOUNDREL,
applied to a clergyman's wife, ii. 456, n. 3;
Johnson's use of the term, iii. 1.
_Scoundrelism_, v. 106.
SCRASE, Mr., v. 455, n. 3.
SCREEN, Johnson dines behind one, i. 163, n. 1.
SCRIPTURE PHRASES, ii. 213.
SCRIPTURES,
in Erse: See under SCOTLAND, Hebrides, Erse;
evidence for their truth: See under CHRISTIANITY.
SCRIVENERS, iii. 21, n. 1.
SCROFULA, i. 41.
SCRUB in the _Beaux Stratagem_, iii. 70.
SCRUPLES,
Baxter's, ii. 477;
Johnson afraid of them, ii. 421;
distracted by them, ii. 476;
no friend to them, v. 62;
warns against them, ii. 423;
people load life with them, ii. 72, n. 1.
_Scrupulosity_, iv. 5.
SCYTHIANS, v. 224.
SEA, feeling its motion after landing, v. 285.
SEA-LIFE. See SAILORS and SHIPS.
SEAFORD, first Lord, iv. 176, n. 1; v. 142.
SEAFORTH, Lord, v. 227, n. 4.
SEASONS,
forgotten in London, iv. 147;
their influence: See under WEATHER.
SECKER, Thomas, Archbishop of Canterbury,
'decent,' i. 508; ii. 283, n. 2; iv. 29, n. 1;
described by H. Walpole, iv. 29, n. 1;
Johnson requested to seek his patronage, i. 368;
_Life_, iv. 29;
_Reports of Debates_, i. 507;
sermon quoted, i. 33;
toast of church and king, iv. 29.
SECOND SIGHT, in Wales, ii. 150.
See under SCOTLAND, HEBRIDES, second sight.
SECTARY, a religious, ii. 472.
SEDUCTION, imaginary case of, iii. 18.
SEED, Rev. Jeremiah, iii. 248.
_Seeking after_, iii. 314.
SEGUED, Emperor of Abyssinia, i. 87, 340, n. 3.
SELDEN, John,
knowledge varied, ii. 158;
Table-talk, v. 311, 414;
mentioned, iv. 23, n. 3; v. 225, n. 3.
SELECTIONS FROM AUTHORS, Johnson disapproves of them, iii. 29.
SELF-IMPORTANCE, iii. 171.
SELWIN, Mr., iii. 166, n. 3.
SELWYN, George, Beauclerk at Venice, i. 381, n. 1.
_Semel insanivimus omnes_, iv. 182.
