September 9.  Antiquity of the family of Rasay.  Cure of infidelity.

September 10.  Survey of the island of Rasay.  Bentley.  Mallet.  Hooke.  Duchess of Marlborough.

September 11.  Heritable jurisdictions.  Insular life.  The Laird of M’Cleod.

September 12.  Sail to Portree.  Dr. Johnson’s discourse on death.  Letters from Lord Elibank to Dr. Johnson and the authour.  Dr. Johnson’s answer.  Ride to Kingsburgh.  Flora M’Donald.

September 13.  Distresses and escape of the grandson of King James II.  Arrive at Dunvegan.

September 14.  Importance of the chastity of women.  Dr. Cadogan.  Whether the practice of authours is necessary to enforce their Doctrines.  Good humour acquirable.

September 15.  Sir George M’Kenzie.  Mr. Burke’s wit, knowledge and eloquence.

September 16.  Dr. Johnson’s hereditary melancholy.  His minute knowledge in various arts.  Apology for the authour’s ardour in his pursuits.  Dr. Johnson’s imaginary seraglio.  Polygamy.

September 17.  Cunning.  Whether great abilities are necessary to be wicked.  Temple of the Goddess Anaitis.  Family portraits.  Records not consulted by old English historians.  Mr. Pennant’s Tours criticised.

September 18.  Ancient residence of a Highland Chief.  Languages the pedigree of nations.  Laird of the Isle of Muck.

September 19.  Choice of a wife.  Women an over-match for men.  Lady Grange in St. Kilda.  Poetry of savages.  French Literati.  Prize-fighting.  French and English soldiers.  Duelling.

September 20.  Change of London manners.  Laziness censured.  Landed and traded interest compared.  Gratitude considered.

September 21.  Description of Dunvegan.  Lord Lovat’s Pyramid.  Ride to Ulinish.  Phipps’s Voyage to the North Pole.

September 22.  Subterraneous house and vast cave in Ulinish.  Swift’s Lord Orrery.  Defects as well as virtues the proper subject of biography, though the life be written by a friend.  Studied conclusions of letters.  Whether allowable in dying men to maintain resentment to the last.  Instructions for writing the lives of literary men.  Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed.

September 23.  Further disquisition concerning Fingal.  Eminent men disconcerted by a new mode of publick appearance.  Garrick.  Mrs. Montague’s Essay on Shakspeare.  Persons of consequence watched in London.  Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650.  The arts of civil life little known in Scotland till the Union.  Life of a sailor.  The folly of Peter the Great in working in a dock-yard.  Arrive at Talisker.  Presbyterian clergy deficient in learning. September 24.  French hunting.  Young Col.  Dr. Birch, Dr. Percy.  Lord Hailes.  Historical impartiality.  Whiggism unbecoming in a clergyman.

September 25.  Every island a prison.  A Sky cottage.  Return to Corrichatachin.  Good fellowship carried to excess.