THE END OF THE TOUR.

��he met Mr. John Scott and his young bride, and perhaps compared notes about Blackshields and the Newcastle road. 1 To his friend, Dr. Taylor, he wrote that " he had traversed the east coast of Scotland from south to north, from Edinburgh to Inverness, and

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��the west-coast from north to south, from the Highlands to Glasgow."

" The time he spent in his Tour, was," he often said, " the

1 Boswcll's Johnson, ii. 268.

• The original letter of which a facsimile is given is in my possession. See Appendix B.

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