Edinburgh, stage-coaches from, 8, 10, 13;
street preaching in, 75;
Sunday walking in, 126;
medical school of, 156;
University of, 166;
former dirtiness of, 348;
convivial clubs of, 351, 355, 357;
Geology in, 371;
cliff portrait near, 421;
wind of, 431.
Eigg, steamboats to, 31;
Roman Catholicism in, 45;
massacre of Macdonalds in, 254.
Eviction, a Highland, 225.
Excise officers on English Border, 304.
Fairies, 108.
Fairs in the Highlands, 233.
Fairy-stones, 422.
Farm-life in the Highlands, 219.
Farm-servants, 215.
Farmers, Lowland, 205.
Faroe Isles, 284.
Fast Day, 139.
Ferries in Highlands, 239.
Field-geologist, experiences of a, 386.
Fisher-folk of Eastern Scotland, 363.
Fisherrow, 365.
Fleming, John, 381.
Flint, imitative shapes in, 424.
Fogs on northern seas, 284, 427.
Footprints, supposed, in rock, 423.
Forbes, James David, 373, 374.
Forth, fisher-towns of the, 363.
Foula, Isle of, 282.
Free Church, influence of, in Highlands, 141, 261.
Funerals and half-witted folk, 329.
Gaelic in court, 150;
dying out of, 268;
topographical names, 269;
difficulty of acquiring, 270.
Galloway, inns of, 305.
Gannets, 42, 251.
Geikie, Prof. James, 390.
Geological Survey, 379, 380, 387.
Geology, Scottish school of, 370.
Glasgow, stage-coaches from, 8, 13;
medical school of, 156;
a professor at, 168.
Goat in kirk, 89;
taken for ‘Auld Hornie,’ 118.
Golf, early attractions of, 122;
derived from Scotland, 305, 367;
anecdotes of, 367.
Grant, Mrs., of Laggan, 9, 234, 237.
Gravediggers, 322.
Gravestones, 325,
rapid decay of, 326.
Grierson of Lag, 197.
Gull, Sir W., 160.
Haidinger, W., 382.
Hall, Sir James, of Dunglass, 371.
Hanna, Dr., 69, 74, 81, 364.
Harris, Sound of, 252.
Heaven and Hell, influence of belief in a material, 103.
Hebrides, medical attendance in, 161;
scenery of, 248;
charm of, 258;
geologists in, 393.
Henderson, Alexander, tomb of, 327.
Highlander, demureness of, 261;
gentlemanliness of, 414;
disregards rain, 428;
influence of environment on, 435.
Highlands, history of roads in, 2, 8;
songs of, 16, 264;
railway construction in, 23;
steamboats in, 27–36;
telegraph in, 37;
Celtic Church in, 40, 60;
ministers in, 53–66, 74, 80;
sermon in, 83;
church-psalmody in, 92;
Established and Free Churches in, 96, 141;
Sabbath observance in, 128;
dancing in, 141;
medical attendance in, 161;
laziness in, 234;
want of manufactures in, 237;
ferries and coaches in, 239;
castles in, 253;
crusade against music in, 260, 438;
topographical names in, 269;
inns of, 306;
whisky in, 315;
geologists in, 393;
breakfast in, 405.
Hill, Aaron, 430.
Horner, Leonard, 174, 373.
Hoy, cliffs of, 277.
Hume’s ‘Essays,’ 155.
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