11
Celebrated as a Scottish lawyer.
12
It is well known and remembered, that when Members of Parliament enjoyed the unlimited privilege of franking by the mere writing the name on the cover, it was extended to the most extraordinary occasions. One noble lord, to express his regard for a particular regiment, franked a letter for every rank and file. It was customary also to save the covers and return them, in order that the correspondence might be carried on as long as the envelopes could hold together.
13
Alluding, as all Scotsmen know, to the humorous old song:—
14
The diminutive and obscure place called Brown's Square, was hailed about the time of its erection as an extremely elegant improvement upon the style of designing and erecting Edinburgh residences. Each house was, in the phrase used by appraisers, 'finished within itself,' or, in the still newer phraseology, 'self-contained.' It was built about the year 1763-4; and the old part of the city being near and accessible, this square soon received many inhabitants, who ventured to remove to so moderate a distance from the High Street.
15
Of Rob Roy we have had more than enough. Alan Cameron, commonly called Sergeant Mhor, a freebooter of the same period, was equally remarkable for strength, courage, and generosity.
16
The partition which divides a Scottish cottage.
17
The frame of wooden shelves placed in a Scottish kitchen for holding plates.
18
Of old this almost deserted alley formed the most common access betwixt the High Street and the southern suburbs.
19
The bait made of salmon-roe salted and preserved. In a swollen river, and about the month of October, it is a most deadly bait.
20
Well known in the Chap-Book, called the History of Buckhaven.
21
The original of this catch is to be found in Cowley's witty comedy of THE GUARDIAN, the first edition. It does not exist in the second and revised edition, called THE CUTTER OF COLEMAN STREET.
