[538] Chambers’s _History of the Rebellion_, ed. 1869, p. 309.
[539] Forbes’s _Life of Beattie_, Appendix D. At the time of the rebellion of 1745 the Errol title was held by a woman.
[541] Forbes’s _Life of Beattie_, Appendix D.
[543] _Bouilloire._ According to Dr. Murray the word is connected with “the Swedish _buller_, a noise, roar. But,” he adds, “the influence of _boil_ is manifest.” I remember when I visited the place in my youth I heard it also called Lord Errol’s Punch-bowl. The tale was told that a former earl had made a seizure in it of a smuggling ship laden with spirits, and had had the kegs emptied into the water.
[544] Lockhart’s _Life of Scott_, iv. 188.
[545] Dun Buy means the Yellow Rock. It gets its name, it is said, from the colour given to it by the dung of the sea-birds.
[546] James Ray’s _History of the Rebellion of 1745_, p. 311.
[548] This account I owe to the kindness of Mr. Lachlan Mackintosh, of Old Lodge, Elgin, who has copied it from a manuscript in his possession which was written at least as early as the year 1837. To him also I am indebted for the sketch of the old piazzas.
[549] Dunbar’s _Social Life in Former Days_, i. 276.
[550] Defoe’s _Tour through Great Britain: Account of Scotland_, iii. 193.
[551] _The Elgin Courant and Courier_, Aug. 23, 1889.
[552] Walpole’s _Letters_, vii. 484. It was only one ship that was lost, though in it the lead of two cathedrals was conveyed.
[554] The language of the Highlanders is generally called Erse by the English writers of this period; sometimes Irish and Celtic. M’Nicol objected to the term _Erse_. “The Caledonians,” he says, “always called their native language Gaelic.” _Remarks on Johnson’s Journey_, p. 432. Macpherson, in the title-page of _Ossian_, calls it Galic.
[555] Murray’s _Handbook for Scotland_, ed. 1867, p. 308.
[557] _Life of Lord Macaulay_, ed. 1877, i. 6.
[558] Boswell’s _Journal_, ed. by Carruthers, p. 96.
[559] Pennant’s _Tour in Scotland_, i. 155.
[561] Boswell’s _Hebrides_, ed. by R. Carruthers, p. 85.
[566] Wright’s _Life of Wolfe_, 1864, pp. 84-5, 179.
[567] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1746, p. 263.
[569] _Gentleman’s Magazine_, 1746, p. 429.
[570] Michael Hughes’s _Plain Narrative of the Rebellion_, p. 56.