235; Sky, church bells, no, v. 151; Johnson arrives, v. 147; leaves for Rasay, v. 162; returns, v. 180; leaves finally, v. 279; his Ode, v. l55; Macdonald, Lady Margaret, beloved there, iii. 383; one justice of the peace, v. 177; price upon the heads of foxes, v. 173, n. 2; Snizort, v. 166; South Uist, v. 236; spades used in Sky, v. 235, 261; Spanish invasion in 1719, v. 140, n. 3; strangers will never settle in the isles, v. 294, n. 1; Strath, v. 156, 195; St. Kilda, Boswell proposes to buy it, ii. 149; cold-catching, ii. 51; v. 278; explanation suggested, ii. 52; fire-penny tax, iii. 243, n. 2; Glasgow, St. Kilda's man at, i. 450; Horace and Virgil studied there, v. 338; Lady Grange a prisoner, v. 227; Macaulay's History of St. Kilda, ii. 51; v. 118-9; Martin's Voyage to St. Kilda, ii. 51, n. 3, 52, n. 1; poetry, v. 228; Staffa, Johnson sees it at a distance, v. 332; sold, iii. 126, 133; Strathaven, iii. 360; Strichen, v. 107; Strolimus, v. 257; superstitions, v. 306, n. 1; tacksmen, v. 156, n. 3, 205, n. 3; tailors, v. 226; taiscks, v. 160; Talisker, Johnson visits it, v. 250-56, 266, n. 2, 306, 383; Tarbat, v. 363; targets, v. 212; tartan dress prohibited, v. 162, n. 2; Teigh Franchich, v. 293; tenants, combination among them, v. 150, n. 3; dependent on their landlords, v. 177, n. 1; fine on marriage, v. 320-1; Thurot's descent on some of the isles, iv. 101, n. 4; Tobermorie, v. 308-10, 332; tradition, not to be argued out of a, v. 303; translate their names in the Lowlands, v. 341, n. 4; trusted, little to be, ii. 310; turnips introduced, v. 293; Tyr-yi, v. 209, n. 3, 287, 3l2; Ulinish, v. 224; Johnson visits it, v. 235-48; sees a subterraneous house, v. 236; and cave, v. 237; gleanings of his conversation there, v. 249, 389; Ulva's Isle sold, iii. 133; Johnson visits it, v. 319-22; violence, Johnson and Boswell fear, v. 139-40; waves, size of the, v. 251, n. 2; wawking cloth, v. 178; wheat bread never tasted by the M'Craas, v. 142; wheel-carriages, no, v. 235, n. 2; whisky served in a shell, v. 290; whistling, a gentleman shows his independence by, v. 358; 'Who can like the Highlands?' v. 377; wood, bushes called, v. 250; heath, v. 332; wretchedness of the people in 1810 and 1814, v. 338, n. 1; Zetland, v. 338, n. 1. Scots Magazine. See under SCOTLAND. SCOTSMAN, a violent, iii. 170. SCOTT, Archibald, i. 117, n. 1. SCOTT, Mr. Benjamin, iii. 459. SCOTT, George Lewis, iii. 117. SCOTT, John, afterwards first Earl of Eldon, Boswell, never mentioned by, iii. 261, n. 2; trick played on, ib.; and taste, ii. 191, n. 2; church-going, iv. 414, n. 1; deathwarrants, iii. 121, n. 1; Dunning's way of getting through business, iii. 128, n. 5; George III, on the making of baronets, ii. 354, n. 2; Heberden's, Dr., kindness to him, iv. 228, n. 2; Johnson's visit to Oxford in 1773, ii. 268, n. 2; Lee, 'Jack,' on the duties of an advocate, ii. 48, n. 1; on the India Bill, iii. 224, n. 1; Norton, Sir Fletcher, character of, ii. 472, n. 2; Oxford tutor, unwilling to be an, iv. 92, n. 2; Pitt on the honesty of mankind, iii. 236, n. 3; port, liking for, iv. 91, n. 2; Porteus, Bishop, on knotting, iii. 242, n. 3; portrait in University College, ii. 25, n. 2; retirement, after his, ii. 337, n. 4; Royal Marriage Bill, ii. 152, n. 2; sermons written by Lord Stowell, v. 67, n. 1; small certainties, ii. 323, n. 1; Taylor, Chevalier, anecdote of the, iii. 389, n. 4; Warton's, Rev. T., lectures, i. 279, n. 2; Wilkes at the Levee, iii. 430, n. 4. SCOTT, Mrs. John (Lady Eldon), ii. 268, n. 2. SCOTT, John, of Amwell, Elegies, ii. 351; meets Johnson, ii. 338; dread of small-pox, ib., n. 1. SCOTT, Sir Walter, Abel Sampson, a probationer, ii. 171, n. 3; accommodate, v. 310, n. 3; Auchinleck, Lord, anecdote of, v. 382, n. 2; birth, v. 24, n. 4; Blair, mistaken about, v. 361, n. 1; Boswell and the Douglas Cause, v. 353, n. 1; spoils one of his anecdotes, v. 396, n. 4; Burns, sees, v. 42, n. 1; Cameron's execution, i. 146, n. 2; charms in the Hebrides, v. 164, n. 1; clans, order of the, ii. 270, n. 1; coursing, v. 330, n. 1; Culloden, cruelties after, v. 196, n. 3; Detector's letter to him, i. 230, n. 1; Dirleton's Doubts, iii. 205, n. 1; Dunvegan Castle, v. 2O7, n, 2, 208, n. 1, 233, n. 1; Errol, Earls of, v. 101, n. 4, 106, n. 1; Erskine, Dr., v. 391, n. 3; Finnon haddocks, v. 110, n. 2; Forbes's generosity to him, v. 253, n. 3; Forbes, Sir W., lines on, v. 25, n. 1; Grange, Lady, v. 227, n. 4; halls of old Scotch houses, v. 60, n. 5; Hardyknute, ii. 91, n. 2; Highlands, discomforts in the, v. 377, n. 2; Highlanders forbidden to carry arms, v. 151, n. 1; Home's tragedies, ii. 320, n. 1; hospitality, old-fashioned, iv.

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