i. 409;
  land-tax, ii. 431;
  Laurence Kirk, v. 75-6;
  law (Kelly law), v. 237;
  law arguments in writing, ii. 220;
  law life, vulgar familiarity of, iii. 179, n. 1;
  lawyers great masters of the law of nations, ii. 292;
  learning, decrease of it, v. 57, 80;
    in James VI’s time, v. 57, 182;
    ‘like bread in a besieged town,’ ii. 363;
    mediocrity of it, ii. 307, n. 3;
  leases, setting aside, v. 342;
  legitimation, law of, ii. 456;
  Leith, v. 54;
    to a Scotchman often Lethe, ib.;
  Leuchars, v. 70;
  Lismore, ii. 308, n. 1; v. 86;
  literature, rapid advancement in, ii. 53;
  Logie Pert, v. 75, n. 2;
  Lord High Constable, v. 103;
  Loudoun, v. 371;
  ‘love Scotland better than truth,’ ii. 311; v. 109, n. 6;
  lowns, v. 218;
  Lugar, River, v. 379;
  Macbeth’s heath, v. 115;
    castle, v. 129, 347-8;
  Mackinnon’s Cave, v. 331;
  main honest, v. 303;
  Mallet the only Scot whom Scotchmen did not commend, ii. 159, n. 3;
  manse, v. 70;
  Mauchline, v. 375, n. 3;
  mawkin, v. 96;
  Mercheta Mulierum, v. 320;
  metaphysics, what passes for, iv. 25, n. 4;
  middle class, want of a, ii. 402, n. 1;
  Middleburgh, iii. 104;
  Militia, fear of giving Scotland a, in 1760, ii. 431, n. 1;
    bill of 1776, ii. 431; iii. 1;
    fear still remained, iii. 360, n. 3;
    established in 1793, iii. 360, n. 3;
    Scots as officers in English militia, iii. 399, n. 2;
  Mirror, The, iv. 390;
  mix with the English worse than the Irish, ii. 242;
  Monboddo (Lord Monboddo’s residence), v. 77;
  Monimusk, iii. 103;
  Montrose, v. 72-4;
  muir-fowl, or grouse, v. 44;
  Muses’ Welcome to King James, v. 57, 80, 81;
  nation, if we allow the Scotch to be a, iii. 387;
  nationality, extreme, ii. 242, 307, 325; iv. 186; v. 20, 409
    (See above, combination);
  Newhailes, v. 407;
  ‘noblest prospect,’ i. 425; v. 387;
  non-jurors, iv. 287; v. 66;
  northern circuit, v. 120;
  oatmeal, v. 133, n. 2, 308, 406;
  oats defined, i. 294; iv. 168;
  Old Deer, v. 107;
  old Scottish sentiments, v. 40;
    enthusiasm, v. 374;
  orchard, Johnson sees an, iv. 206, n. 1;
    general want of them, v. 115;
  Ossian, national pride in believing in, iv. 141
    (See under MACPHERSON, James);
  outer gate locked at dinner-time, v. 60, n. 5;
  pains-taking, of all nations most, ii. 300, n. 5;
  past so unlike the present, iii. 414;
  patience in winning votes, iv. 11;
  pay of English soldiers spent in it, ii. 431;
  Peers, interference in elections, iv. 248, 250;
  Perth, an execution at, v. 104;
  Perthshire, Justices and Sheriff of, iii. 214, n. 1;
  Peterhead Well, v. 101;
  ‘petty national resentment,’