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Written extempore in a Lady's Pocket-Book.

GRANT me, indulgent Heav'n, that I may live
To see the miscreants feel the pains they give;
Deal Freedom's sacred treasures free as air,
Till slave and despot be but things which were.

On being asked, why GOD had made Miss DAVIS so little, and Mrs. so large.

Written on a pane of Glass in the Inn at Moffat.

ASK why God made the gem so small,

An' why so Huge the granite? Because God meant mankind should set

That higher value on it.

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NOTE 1, P. 46.
Cuchullin's dog in Ossian's Fingal.

NOTE 2, P. 64.

This was wrote before the Act anent the Scotch Distilleries, of session 1786; for which Scotland and the Author return their most grateful thanks. NOTE 3, P. 69.

A worthy old Hostess of the Author's in Mauchline, where he sometimes studies Politics over a glass of guid auld Scotch Drink.

NOTE 4, P. 76.

This rencounter happened in seed time, 1785.

NOTE 5, P. 77.

An epidemical fever was then raging in that country.

NOTE 6, p. 78.

This gentleman, Dr Hornbook is, professionally, a brother of the sovereign Order of the Ferula ; but, by intuition and inspiration, is at once an Apothecary, Surgeon, and Physician.

VOL I.

NOTE 7, P. 78.

Buchan's Domestic Medicine.

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NOTE 8, P. 80.
The grave-digger.

NOTE 9, p. 84.

Holy Fair is a common phrase in the west of Scotland for a sacramental occasion.

A street so called, which faces the tent in

NOTE 11, P.-93.
Shakespeare's Hamlet.

NOTE 12, P.

99.

A noted tavern at the Auld Brig end.

NOTE 13 and 14, p. 100.

The two steeples.

NOTE 15, P. 100.

The gos-hawk, or falcon.

NOTE 16, P. 102.

A noted ford, just above the Auld Brig.

NOTE 17, P. 102.

The banks of Garpal Water is one of the few places in the west of Scotland, where those fancy searing beings, known by the name of Ghaists, still continue pertinaciously to inhabit.

NOTE 18, P. 103.

The source of the river of Ayr.

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NOTE 19, P. 103.

A small landing-place above the large key.

NOTE 20, P. 106...

A well known performer of Scottish music on the violin:

NOTE 21, P. 116.

Vide MILTON, Book VI.

NOTE 22, P, 123.

King Henry V.

NOTE 23, p. 123.

Sir John Falstaff, Vide Shakespeare.

NOTE 24, P. 124.

Alluding to the News-paper account of a cer tain Royal Sailor's amour.

NOTE 25, P. 126.

The fore-horse on the left-hand in the plough
NOTE 26, p. 126.⠀⠀

The hindmost on the left-hand in the plough.

NOTE 27, P. 126.

Kilmarnock.

NOTE 28, p. 127:

The hindmost horse on the right-hand of the plough.

TO VOLUME FIRST.

NOTE 29, P. 130.

Duan, a term of Ossian's for the different divisions of a digressive Poem. See his Cath-Loda, Vol. 2. of McPherson's Translation.

NOTE 30, P. 137.

The Wallaces.

NOTE 31, P. 137

William Wallace.

NOTE 32, P. 137,

Adam Wallace of Richardton, cousin to the im mortal preserver of Scottish Independence.

NOTE 33, p. 137.

Wallace, Laird of Craigie, who was second in command, under Douglas, Earl of Ormond, at the famous battle on the banks of Sark, fought anno 1448, That glorious victory was principally owing to the judicious conduct and intripid value of the gallant Laird of Craigie, who died of his wounds after the action.

NOTE 34, P. 187.0

Coilus, King of the Picts, from whom the district of Kyle is said to take its name, lies buried, as tradition says, near the family-seat of the Montgomeries of Coils-field, where his burial place is still shewn.