August 21.  Want of trees.  Laurence Kirk.  Dinner at Monboddo.  Emigration.  Homer.  Biography and history compared.  Decrease of learning.  Causes of it.  Promotion of bishops.  Warburton.  Lowth.  Value of politeness.  Dr. Johnson’s sentiments concerning Lord Monboddo.  Arrive at Aberdeen.

August 22.  Professor Thomas Gordon.  Publick and private education.  Sir Alexander Gordon.  Trade of Aberdeen.  Prescription of murder in Scotland.  Mystery of the Trinity.  Satisfaction of Christ.  Importance of old friendships.

August 23.  Dr. Johnson made a burgess of Aberdeen.  Dinner at Sir Alexander Gordon’s.  Warburton’s powers of invective.  His Doctrine of Grace.  Lock’s verses.  Fingal.

August 24.  Goldsmith and Graham.  Slains castle.  Education of children.  Buller of Buchan.  Entails.  Consequence of Peers.  Sir Joshua Reynolds.  Earl of Errol.

August 25.  The advantage of being on good terms with relations.  Nabobs.  Feudal state of subordination.  Dinner at Strichen.  Life of country gentlemen.  THE LITERARY CLUB.

August 26.  Lord Monboddo.  Use and importance of wealth.  Elgin.  Macbeth’s heath.  Fores.

August 27.  Leonidas.  Paul Whitehead.  Derrick.  Origin of Evil.  Calder-manse.  Reasonableness of ecclesiastical subscription.  Family worship.

August 28.  Fort George.  Sir Adolphus Oughton.  Contest between Warburton and Lowth.  Dinner at Sir Eyre Coote’s.  Arabs and English soldiers compared.  The Stage.  Mr. Garrick, Mrs. Cibber, Mrs. Pritchard, Mrs. Clive.  Inverness.

August 29.  Macbeth’s Castle.  Incorrectness of writers of Travels.  Coinage of new words.  Dr. Johnson’s Dictionary.

August 30.  Dr. Johnson on horseback.  A Highland hut.  Fort Augustus.  Governour Trapaud.

August 31.  Anoch.  Emigration.  Goldsmith.  Poets and soldiers compared.  Life of a sailor.  Landlord’s daughter at Anoch.

September 1.  Glensheal.  The Macraas.  Dr. Johnson’s anger at being left for a little while by the authour on a wild plain.  Wretched inn at Glenelg.

September 2.  Dr. Johnson relents.  Isle of Sky.  Armidale.

September 3.  Colonel Montgomery, now Earl of Eglintoune.

September 4.  Ancient Highland Enthusiasm.

September 5.  Sir James Macdonald’s epitaph and last letters to his mother.  Dr. Johnson’s Latin ode on the Isle of Sky.  Isaac Hawkins Browne.

September 6.  Corrichatachin.  Highland hospitality and mirth.  Dr. Johnson’s Latin ode to Mrs. Thrale.

September 7.  Uneasy state of dependence on the weather.  State of those who live in the country.  Dr. M’Pherson’s Dissertations.  Second Sight.

September 8.  Rev. Mr. Donald M’Queen.  Mr. Malcolm M’Cleod.  Sail to Rasay.  Fingal.  Homer.  Elegant and gay entertainment at Rasay.