September 26.  Morning review of last night’s intemperance.  Old Kingsburgh’s Jacobite song.  Lady Margaret Macdonald adored in Sky.  Different views of the same subject at different times.  Self-deception.

September 27.  Dr. Johnson’s popularity in the Isle of Sky.  His good-humoured gaiety with a Highland lady.

September 28.  Ancient Irish pride of family.  Dr. Johnson on threshing and thatching.  Dangerous to increase the price of labour.  Arrive at Ostig.  Dr. M’Pherson’s Latin poetry.

September 29.  Reverend Mr. M’Pherson, Shenstone.  Hammond.  Sir Charles Hanbury Williams.

September 30.  Mr. Burke the first man every where.  Very moderate talents requisite to make a figure in the House of Commons.  Dr. Young.  Dr. Doddridge.  Increase of infidel writings since the accession of the Hanover family.  Gradual impression made by Dr. Johnson.  Particular minutes to be kept of our studies.

October 1.  Dr. Johnson not answerable for all the words in his Dictionary.  Attacks on authours useful to them.  Return to Armidale.

October 2.  Old manners of great families in Wales.  German courts.  Goldsmith’s love of talk.  Emigration.  Curious story of the people of St. Kilda.

October 3.  Epictetus on the voyage of death.  Sail for Mull.  A storm.  Driven into Col.

October 4.  Dr. Johnson’s mode of living in the Temple.  His curious appearance on a sheltie.  Nature of sea-sickness.  Burnet’s History of his own Times.  Difference between dedications and histories.

October 5.  People may come to do anything by talking of it.  The Reverend Mr. Hector Maclean.  Bayle.  Leibnitz and Clarke.  Survey of Col.  Insular life.  Arrive at Breacacha.  Dr. Johnson’s power of ridicule.

October 6.  Heritable jurisdictions.  The opinion of philosophers concerning happiness in a cottage, considered.  Advice to landlords.

October 7.  Books the best solace in a state of confinement.

October 8.  Pretended brother of Dr. Johnson.  No redress for a man’s name being affixed to a foolish work.  Lady Sidney Beauclerk.  Carte’s Life of the Duke of Ormond.  Col’s cabinet.  Letters of the great Montrose.  Present state of the island of Col.

October 9.  Dr. Johnson’s avidity for a variety of books.  Improbability of a Highland tradition.  Dr. Johnson’s delicacy of feeling.

October 10.  Dependence of tenants on landlords.

October 11.  London and Pekin compared.  Dr. Johnson’s high opinion of the former.

October 12.  Return to Mr. M’Sweyn’s.  Other superstitions beside those connected with religion.  Dr. Johnson disgusted with coarse manners.  His peculiar habits.

October 13.  Bustle not necessary to dispatch. Oats the food not of the Scotch alone.