{80a} This distinction between the foot and head is not very clear.
What is meant is this: They would have to travel the whole length of the
lake, from the west to the east end of it, before they came to the
Trossachs, the pass leading away from the east end of the lake.—_Ed._
{93} There is a mistake here. His bones were laid about fifteen or
twenty miles from thence, in Balquhidder kirkyard. But it was under the
belief that his ‘grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of
those pinfold-like burial grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance,
which the traveller meets with in the Highlands of Scotland,’ that the
well-known poem on ‘Rob Roy’s Grave’ was composed. See Note 15 at the
end of volume.—_Ed._
{97} Goblins’ Cave.
{113} To a Highland Girl. At Inversneyde upon Loch Lomond.
{124} I should rather think so!—_Ed._
{131} ‘Capability’ Brown.
{134} _Quære_, Cladich.—_Ed._
{139a} Not very probable.
{139b} See Appendix C.
{142} The Pass of Awe.—_Ed._
{155} Lochnell House.
{160} Castle Stalker.
{161} George, seventh Marquis of Tweeddale, being in France in 1803, was
detained by Bonaparte, and died at Verdun, 9th August 1804.—_Ed._
{165} See Appendix D
{177} Buchal, the Shepherd of Etive.
{186} _Quære_, Luib.
{187} The burial-place of Macnab of Macnab.
{190} In this interval her dear brother, Captain Wordsworth, had been
drowned, as stated in note to page 3, in the wreck of the ‘Abergavenny,’
on February 5, 1805.
{210} See Appendix E.
{215} Monzie probably.
{216} Glen Ogle.
{218} Ardhullary.
{225a} This is none other than the well-known Scottish word
‘_gey_,’—indifferently, tolerable, considerable.—_Ed._
{225b} See Appendix F.
{246} See Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_ for an account of this visit, vol.
i. pp. 402–7. Mr. L. says, ‘I have drawn up the account of this meeting
from my recollection, partly of Mr. W.’s conversation, partly from that
of his sister’s charming “Diary,” which he was so kind as to read to me
on the 16th May 1836.’—_Ed._
{254} See Appendix G.
{266} W. Laidlaw. See Scott’s _Life_, vol. i.
{295} On the banks of the River Nid, near Knaresborough.
{314} If this is not a misprint, the Lady had antedated her tour by two
years, as she made it in 1796 and published it in 1799.
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