this sort, 510 to 512.-amiable instance of an opposite nature,
512.-State of the clergy in the Orkneys, Shetland, and the West-
ern islands, 544.

Climate; extraordinary diversity of, between almost contiguous parts
of the interior of Scotland, 417.

Clocks, the idea of, suggested above two thousand years ago at Rome,

582.

Clubs at Aberdeen, and anecdote respecting two members of one, 320.
Clyde, banks of, 509.-Falls off, at the Corra Linn and other spots,
573 to 575.

Coal, seams of, about Alloa, 37.-Consideration respecting the pri
mitive nature of coal, 38.-Uncominon echo in a coal-mine, ib.-
Singular machinery for draining a coal-mine, 39.-Relic of
slavery in many of the collieries in Scotland, 40.

Cock, sagacity of one in the Highlands, 394.

Cold, extreme, nips the growth of animals as well as of vegetables,
598.

Cold, singular cure for one, 416.

Colinsburgh, 80.

College, new, at Edinburgh, 579.

Commons. See the article Land.

Comrie, plain of, 241.

Consular road from Stirling, 17.

Copland, professor, of the university of Aberdeen, 317.

Copper-mine in the Shetland islands, 534.

Cornfule, Mr. rector of the public school at Perth, 260.

Corra Linn, fall of the Clyde at, 573, 574.

Cotters, the labouring people in the Orkneys so called, their abject
condition, 614.

Cows sucked by other animals, instances of, 399.

Crail, 62, 63.-Defective agricultural knowledge here, 84.-Ac-
count of the town; it has gradually declined for the last fifty
years, 85.-Magnitude and importance of the herring-fishery here
formerly, 86.-Smuggling carried on here, 98.-Celebrated cha-
racters, natives or inhabitants of this town, 99.-See also the ar-
ticle Herring-fishery.

Crawfurd Lodge, 172.

Crieff, its situation, 240.-Manufactures, &c. 241.-Manners, &c.
of the inhabitants, 242.-High charges at the inn; custom of
giving deuchan dorish, or a drink at the door, 243.

Cromarty, bay of, 488.-Situation, trade, and environs, of the town,
490.

Cromwell's fort, near Inverness, 470.-His mount, near Perth, 254.
Crows very numerous in the Highlands at a particular season, 432.
Cruelty, shocking instance of, recorded by a tombstone in Clackman-
nan church-yard, 42.

Cuckoo followed by some little birds for the sake of its fæces, 306.
Cullen, 349.-Immense number of dogs at, and their use, 355.-
Road to Fochabers from, 356.

Cullen House, the present mansion of the earls of Finlater, 353, 354.
Culloden, scene and anecdotes of the battle of, 463, 464.

Culross, 48.-Singular mark indented on a large stone in the muir
of, 49.-Signification of the name Culross, ib.

Cumberland, duke of, 352, 359.

Cupar of Fife, 167.-Great variety of modes of worship here, 168.
-Anecdote of an hypocritical practiser of long prayers, 169.-
Late inadequate construction of a new church here, 170.

Cutty stool, and its use, described, 183 note.-See also the article
Repenting stool.

D.

D—, Mr. shoemaker at Aberdeen; anecdote of, at a public ball
there, 319.

D-, Mr. of Stonehaven, how treated by a gentleman whom he had
called a scoundrel, 310.

D-g, Mr. a canting Glassite, 276.

Dainty Dacie, a pulpit-thumper at Dundee, 274.

Dairsie mill and bridge, 167.

Dalgety Castle, a scat of the earl of Fife, 342.

Dancing, graceful, at a ball at Grantown, 387.

Danes, their invasions of Britain, and possessions here, 36.- Colony
of shipwrecked, between St. Andrew's and Dundee, 58.-Three
Danes' heads built in a church-wall, 334.

De Foe, Daniel, 66.

Degrees conferred with too much facility by the university of Aber-
deen, 315.

Deill's mill, the, a cataract on the river Devon, 193.

Deluge, striking proof of the, 452.

Denburn, fine bridge over the, 311.

Deuchan dorish, or a drink at the door; custom of giving, at the inns
at Crieff, 243.

Deveron, river, 335, 341.

Devon, river, its beautiful and interesting course, 190.—The Rum-
bling Bridge over it, 191.—Cataracts on, ib. 193.-Plan for mak-
ing this river navigable for several miles, 193.

Diet of the common people in the county of Caithness, 497.
Digitalis, how used successfully in the cure of dropsy, 590..
Dingwall, 490.

Dinner, elegant, near the banks of the Spey, 405.

Dissenters, curious anecdote of a small assemblage of, 373.
Distillery, very large, at Kilbeggie, 46.

Dogs, immense number of, at the fisher town of Cullen, and their
use, 355.-Instances of sagacity of, 395, 396.—Trouble given by,
in the churches in the interior of the Highlands, 428.-One buried
in a church-yard at Edinburgh, through the affection of its master;
anecdotes of its fidelity, and of the sagacity of some others, 600,
601. See also the article Shepherds' curs.

Domestication the sole cause of the diversity of colour among animals
of the same species, 433.

Don, river, fine bridge over, 324.

Dornoch, route from Fort Augustus to, 487.-Šituation and inhabi-

tants of this town, 493.- Route to Cape Wrath from, 495.
Douay, plate belonging to the academy at, buried, 37.

Dougall, Dr. of New Keith, anecdote of, 365.

Douglas, lord James, his magnificent equipage in his expedition to
Jerusalem, 31, 37.-Charged by Robert Bruce with the disposal
of his remains, 52 note.

Douglas, Mr. of Finhaven, 69.

Dove-cots, great number of, in Fife, 216.

Draining, its peculiar importance in the Highlands, 444.

Dram-drinking, the foundation of this pernicious habit often laid in
infancy; and anecdote of a confirmed dram-drinker, 467.-See
also 494.

Dress, almost approaching to nakedness, of fashionable persons both
at London and at Edinburgh, 603, 605.

Dropping cave of Slanes, 326.

Dropsy, case of, and cure, 590.

Druidical temples and remains in Scotland, 413, 414.

Drummond, ancient family of, 244.-The chancellor Drummond, and
anecdote of Mrs. Drummond, 245.

Drummond Castle, 239.

Ducking a tailor, for delusive enticements to a young woman to marry
him; instance of, 402.

Duff House, a seat of the earl of Fife, 340.

Dumayat, hill of, 10.

Dumbarton, 558, 559.
Dumblane, 23.

Dunfermline, route from Stirling to, 23.-Manufactories and church
at; remains of a magnificent abbey and royal palace; and the
cathedral, 50.-Prospect from the battlements of the church-
steeple, 53.-Route to St. Andrews from, 55.

Dunbeath Castle, 499.

Duncan, king, murdered by Macbeth, 68.

Duncrub, the seat of lord Rollo, 247.

Dundas, lord, admiral of the Shetland islands, 526.

Dundee, route from Perth to, 271.-Situation and manufactures of
this town, 272.--Harbour and schools; religion, 273.-Great in-
delicacy practised here, 274.—A Sunday spent in a religious family
here, 275.-This place yearly increasing in size, 277.
Dundonald, lord, his seat at Culross, 48.

Dunning, village of, 247.

Dunnotter, 308.

Dunsinnan hill, 253.

Duplin, castle of, 197.

Durham, Mr. laird of Largo, 66.

Dyke, parish of; sands in, 334.
Dysart, 57.

E.

Eagles in Marr forest, 344.-Curious instance of an eagle's nest fur-
nishing a gentleman with a larder of game, and other particulars
of this pair, 389, 390.-Longevity of one at St. Omer's, 606.
Ears of a boy cut off by a shopkeeper from whom he had stolen
something, 515.

Echo, remarkable, in a coal-mine, 38.-At a church near Aberbro-
thic, 283.

Edinburgh, route to Stirling from, 1.-Firing the guns of the castle
has, perhaps, done great mischief in regard to the fisheries, 48.—
Situation and public buildings of, 579.-The new college; bota-
nical garden; prisons; and female society, 580.-Cleaning of the
streets; singular house, 581.—Advanced state of the elegant and
useful arts here; value of land; dearness of coals, 5×2.-Fisher-
women, 583.—The high school; state of medical practice, ancc-
dotes, 589, to 592.-The advocates' library, 592.-Prostitutes,
595. Fewer beggars proportionally here than in Lendon, 596.
-Ribaldry and abominable language used in the streets; great
proportion of the inhabitants originally Highlanders, or from the
islands, 597.—A considerable proportion of the gentlemen do not
marry, 598.-Impositions and scandalous practices of the wie-
merchants here, 599.-Dress of the ladies; plantations of trees
round the city, 603.-College, 604.-Scarcity of natural and arti-
ficial curiosities here, 606.-Highland part of the city, 610.—
Population, 618.

Edracheillis, manse of, 502.

Education, result of a secluded course of, exemplified in a family at
St. Andrews, 161 to 163.-Consequences of a neglect of education
from motives of parsimony, instanced in a family in the neigh-
bourhood of Montrose, 301.-General good state of, in the High-
lands, 406, 407.-Practice respecting, among the gentry of the
Hebrides, 546, 547.

Eels, monstrous, caught in the lech of Kilconquhar, 71, 73.- Very
few persons in the inland counties of Scotland will eat eels of any
kind, 71.—Instance of transmigration of, in the river Spey, 446 to
448.-Different ways of catching, 448.

Elchies, 445, 449.-Öld staircase at, made without the use of a saw,

440.

Elcho, castle of, 213.

Elcho, lord, educated at the university of St. Andrews, 126.
Elephant, particulars of one exhibited in London, 607.-

Elevation of situations, in certain circumstances, does not retard
vegetation; instances, 391.

Elgin, its situation, population, and ruins of its cathedral, 455.—
General mildness of the winters here, ib.-Clubs, 456.-Immo◄
dest and immoral expressions used by an auctioneer here, 458.
Elgin, lord, his lime-works, 50.

Elie, town of, 69.—Parish of, 70.

Elie House, 70.

Emigration from the Highlands, various remarks respecting, 424,

443, 473 to 475, 541.

Encyclopedia Perthensis, 262.

Enzie, the, 356.

Epigoniad, Dr. Wilkie's, considered, 127, 128.

Erne, river, 237, 238.

Erskine, lord, and his brother Henry, educated at the university of

St. Andrews, 126.

Erskine, rev. Mr. Ebenezer, opens the first meeting of Seceders, at
Perth, 204.

Escape, providential, instance of, 56.

1

Euclid, singular method of reading, adopted by a Seceder student, 211.
Evangelical preaching (as it is called) considered, 14, 15.

F.

F-, Mrs. a widow lady at Aberdeen, curious anecdote of, 321.
Fairies, a belief in, still exists in the interior of the Highlands, 408.
Fairney, house or castle of, 171, 172.

Falkirk muir, 10, 37.

Falkland, route from St. Andrews to, 167.-The palace here, 172,
173. The forest, 173.-Singular profligacy of a right honourable
person hereabout, 175.-Route to Abernethey from, by Kinross,
186.

Fall of Foirs, 476, 477.

Famine about a century ago in Murrayshire, 463.

Farg, river, 198.-Angling in, 232.

Female society at Litchfield, 580.

Fences of stone preferred to any other kind all over the Highlands,
444.-More advantageous than hedges, 445.

Ferns growing on waste lands might be turned to profit if collected

and burnt, 400, 401.

Fetter-cairn, and origin of this name, 298.

Fife, before the union, was the heartiest and happiest part of Scot
land, 99.-Humours and fare at a Fifan wedding, 160.-Was for-
merly called the kingdom of Fife, 101.-Peculiar natural advan-
tages enjoyed by this county, 177. Equal division of pro-
perty throughout, ib. 178, 216, 217.-Great number of dove-
cots in, 216.-East nook of, a charming district, 65.—North nook
of, 167.

Fife, earl of, 172 note.-Improvements introduced by him into Bamff-
shire, 336 to 341.-His seven different seats, 342.-His general
character, and anecdotes of him, 345, 346.

Fifeness, 101.

Finlater, old castle of, 353.-Late earl of, ib.-improvements intro-
duced by him into Bamfishire, 336.

Fir, pieces of the roots of, split thin, used instead of candles in many
parts of the Highlands, 440.

Fish, appear sometimes to be rained in India, 377.—Quick growth of,
in different countries, ib.-Numerous kinds of, caught on the
Shetland shores, 533.

Fishers, colony of, the original settlers at Buckhaven, 57.
Fisheries of the Tay almost all monopolized by one man, 263.-Fish-
ery among the Hebrides, 328, 329.-in the Shetland islands, 528.
See also the articles Herring-fishery and Salmon.

Flannel and other woollen goods; beneficial effects which would attend
the introduction of the manufacture of, into the Highlands, 424.
Fletcher of Salton, his project respecting the cities of Great Britain
and Ireland, 19.

Floats used on the river Spey, 435.

Flouden, battle of, 500.

Fochabers, route from Bamff to, 349.-Account of: Old and New
towns; sewing-thread manufactory, 356.

Food, the Highlanders peculiar in rejocung many sorts of, 71 to 73.