[154] Johnson’s Works, ix. i.  See ante, ii. 278, where he wrote to Boswell:—­’I have endeavoured to do you some justice in the first paragraph [of the Journey].’  The day before he started for Scotland he wrote to Dr. Taylor:—­’Mr. Boswell, an active lively fellow, is to conduct me round the country.’ Notes and Queries, 6th S. v. 422.  ’His inquisitiveness,’ he said, ‘is seconded by great activity.’ Works, ix. 8.  On Oct. 7 he wrote from Skye:—­’Boswell will praise my resolution and perseverance; and I shall in return celebrate his good humour and perpetual cheerfulness....  It is very convenient to travel with him, for there is no house where he is not received with kindness and respect.’ Piozzi Letters, i. 198.  He told Mrs. Knowles that ’Boswell was the best travelling companion in the world.’ Ante, iii. 294.  Mr. Croker says (Croker’s Boswell, p. 280):—­’I asked Lord Stowell in what estimation he found Boswell amongst his countrymen.  “Generally liked as a good-natured jolly fellow,” replied his lordship.  “But was he respected?” “Well, I think he had about the proportion of respect that you might guess would be shown to a jolly fellow.”  His lordship thought there was more regard than respect.’ Hebrides, p. 40.

[155] See ante, ii. 103, 411.

[156] There were two quarto volumes of this Diary; perhaps one of them Johnson took with him.  Boswell had ’accidently seen them and had read a great deal in them,’ as he owned to Johnson (ante, under Dec. 9, 1784), and moreover had, it should seem, copied from them (ante, i. 251).  The ‘few fragments’ he had received from Francis Barber (ante, i. 27).

[157] In the original ‘how much we lost at separation’ Johnson’s Works, ix.  I. Mr. William Nairne was afterwards a Judge of the Court of Sessions by the title of Lord Dunsinnan.  Sir Walter Scott wrote of him:—­’He was a man of scrupulous integrity.  When sheriff depute of Perthshire, he found upon reflection, that he had decided a poor man’s case erroneously; and as the only remedy, supplied the litigant privately with money to carry the suit to the supreme court, where his judgment was reversed.’  Croker’s Boswell, p. 280.

[158]

     ’Non illic urbes, non tu mirabere silvas: 
      Una est injusti caerula forma maris.

Ovid.  Amor. L. II.  El. xi.

     Nor groves nor towns the ruthless ocean shows;
     Unvaried still its azure surface flows.

BOSWELL.

[159] See ante. ii. 229.

[160] My friend, General Campbell, Governour of Madras, tells me, that they made speldings in the East-Indies, particularly at Bombay, where they call them Bambaloes.  BOSWELL.  Johnson had told Boswell that he was ’the most unscottified of his countrymen.’Ante, ii. 242.

[161] ’A small island, which neither of my companions had ever visited, though, lying within their view, it had all their lives solicited their notice.’  Johnson’s Works, ix. 1.