Pittenweem, 364. Playfair, Lord, 139, 178, 356. Popery, Scottish abhorrence of, 95. Posting in Scotland, 9. Precentors, 92. Provosts, Scottish, 359. Publican, Irish, in Scotland, 311. Queensferry, South, 100. Raasay, isle of, 93, 227. Railways in Scotland, 15, 20–27. Rain in Scotland, 428. Resurrectionists, 323. Roads in Scotland, history of, 2, 8. Robertson, Patrick, 148. Rodil, church of, 44, 252. Roman Catholicism in Scotland, 45, 111. Rothesay, growth of, 360. Royal Society Club (Edinburgh), 176, 355. Rutherford Clark, Lord, 153. Sabbath observance, history of, 119; illustrations of, 126. St. Andrews, Celtic church at, 44; Kirk Session Register of, 121; professor at, 167; fisher part of, 364. St. Kilda, 250. St. Monans, 364. St. Vigeans, 45. Saints’ wells, 111. Salmon, _à la mode_, 290. Salters, formerly slaves, 341. Sanday Island, 46. Saxon element, cause of distribution of, in population of Scotland, 411. Schoolmasters in Scotland, 180. Scots drink, 303. Scots language, decay of, 368. _Scotsman_ newspaper, founded by Charles Maclaren, 376. Scott, Michael, and witches, 418. Scott, Walter, his influence on the tourist traffic in Scotland, 16; his fiction characters, 143, 238, 302; his repartee on Patrick Robertson, 148. Sculptured Stones, 44. Sedgwick, Adam, 394, 395. Sermons in Scottish kirks, 77. Shakespeare and the climate of Moray, 434. Sheep-stealing, 232. Shenstone, cited, 323. Shepherds, 294. Shetland Isles, 274, 279, 427. Shiant Isles, 421. Shiels, Tibbie, 299. Skye, in 1773, 28; communication with, 29, 31, 36; ministers in, 53–64; Disruption in, 96; fairies in, 108; superstitions in, 112; Sabbath observance in, 133; farm-life in, 219; crofters of, 224, 397; an eviction in, 225; fairs in, 233; place-names in, 269; old inns of, 306; funeral in, 330; geologists in, 393, 395, 396. Slaves, Scottish, 341. Sleeping in church, 85. Smith, James, of Jordanhill, 362. Smith, Sydney, 302, 349. Snails, a dish of, 354. Snow-storm in Southern Uplands, 299. South Uist, 45. Southern Uplands, reminiscences of, 294–302. Spain, insurrection in, 169. Spar Cave, 407. Speldings and drink, 304. Springs, superstitions connected with, 111. Staffa, 246. Stage-coaches in Scotland, 8, 10. Standing Stones, 39, 108, 248. Steamboats on Scottish lakes, 15; to London, 18; in West Highlands, 27–36. Stewart, Dugald, 346. Stories, perennial reappearance of Scottish, 86, 292. Story, Principal, 88. Street-preachers, 74. Stroma, Isle of, 275. Sùla Sgeir, islet of, 41. Superstition in Scotland, 107–119, 416. Supper, former importance of, 350. Sutherland, Sabbath observance in, 131. Sweetheart Abbey, 325. Tait, Prof. P. G., 180. Talla, valley of the, 294, 298.