v. 3;
  piety, compared with English, v. 123, n. 2;
  planting, era of, v. 406;
  players, do not succeed as, ii. 242;
  Poker Club, ii. 376, n. 1, 431, n. 1;
  polished at Newcastle, v. 87;
  postal service, v. 312, n. 3, 347, 369, n. 1, 385;
  post-chaises, v. 56, n. 2;
  poverty, escaped being robbed by their, iii. 410;
    supposed poverty, iv. 102;
  Presbyterian fanatics, v. 39;
  prescription of murder, v. 24, 87;
  Preston-Pans, v. 401, n. 3;
  prisoners of 1745, treatment of, v. 200;
  resentment at having the truth told, ii. 306; iii. 128;
  revenue, contributions to the, ii. 432;
  robbers, no danger from, v. 53, 177, n. 2;
  Roman Catholics, penal legislation against, iii. 427, n. 1;
  Roslin Castle, v. 402;
  sacrament, preparation for the, v. 119, n. 1;
  sailors, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1;
  sands laying the fields waste, v. 291;
  ‘savages,’ iii. 77;
  scandal in Church law, ii. 172;
  scholars incorrect in quantity, ii. 132;
  schoolmaster, brutality of a, ii. 186, n. 1;
  schools inferior to English in classics, ii. 171;
    cannot prepare for English Universities, ii. 380;
  Scone, v. 237;
  Scotch oat-cakes and Scotch prejudices,’ ii. 380;
  ‘Scotchmen made necessarily,’ v. 48;
  Scots Magazine, i. 112; v. 171, 265;
  serfs, iii. 202, n. 1, 214, n. 1; v. 401, n. 3;
  Shakespeare of Scotland, the, iv. 186, n. 2;
  Sheep’s head, v. 342;
  Shelburne, Lord, described by, ii. 296, n. 2;
  Sheriff-muir, v. 290;
  Sheughy Dikes, v. 70, n. 2;
  shoes, want of, v. 84, n. 3;
  short days in winter, ii. 189;
  Slains Castle, Johnson visits it, ii. 311, n. 5; v. 97-107;
    its situation, v. 99-100;
    house, v. 102;
  sloe, brought to perfection, ii. 78;
  Society of Procurators or Solicitors, iv. 128;
    Johnson’s argument in their case, iv. l29-31;
  Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge, ii. 27, 279; v. 370;
  speldings, v. 55;
  spinnet, a, v. 314;
  St. Andrews, Boswell and Johnson visit it, v. 29, 57-70, 72;
    castle, v. 63;
    cathedral, v. 62-3;
    Glass’s Inn, v. 57;
    grotto, v. 70;
    inscriptions, v. 63;
    ‘Knox’s reformations,’ v. 61;
    Marline’s Reliquiae, v. 61, n. 2;
    Sharp’s monument, v. 65;
    Smollett’s description of the town, v. 61, n. 5;
    St. Rule’s Chapel, v. 61;
    story of an old woman, v. 408;
    streets deserted, v. 65;
    tree, large, v. 69;
    University, professors, v. 65, n. 4, 66;
      grace at dinner, v. 65;
    St. Leonard’s College, v. 58;
    St. Salvador’s College, v. 65;
      library, v. 63;
      session, v. 96, n. 1;
    students, their number and fees, v. 65, n. 4;
      windows broken by them, v. 63, n. 2;
      mentioned, i. 359, n. 3;
  Stirling, its corporation corrupt, ii.