incorporated into this work, for the purpose of "filling up (to use Mr. Duppa's own words) that chasm in the Life of Dr. Johnson which Mr. Boswell was unable to supply."]

Tuesday, 5th July.-We left Streatham 11 A. M. Tour to -Price of four horses two shillings a mile.

Wednesday, 6th July.-Barnet 1. 40'. P. M.— On the road I read Tully's Epistles-At night at Dunstable To Lichfield, eighty-three miles -To the Swan'.

Thursday, 7th July.--To the cathedral-To Mrs. Porter's To Mrs. Aston's-To Mr. Green's Mr. Green's museum was much admired, and Mr. Newton's china 3.

Friday, 8th July.-To Mr. Newton's-To Mrs. Cobb's '- Dr. Darwin's-I went again to Mrs. Aston's-She was very sorry to part.

where it may at any time be seen. The Editor acknowledges his obligation to Mrs. Piozzi, for her kind assistance in explaining many facts in this diary, which could not otherwise have been understood."

Mr. Duppa, having applied to Mrs. Piozzi for information on some topics of this diary, received several explanatory letters from that lady, some of which, however, came too late for Mr. Duppa's use. He, however, with continued courtesy, has, by communicating these letters to the Editor, enabled him to explain some obscure points, not only of the Welsh tour, but of other portions of Dr. Johnson's history. The notes, extracted from these letters (which are all dated between the 31st July and 17th December, 1816,) will be distinguished -Piozzi MS.-ED.]

[When at this place, Mrs. Thrale gives an anecdote of Johnson, to show his minute attention to things which might reasonably have been supposed out of the range of his observation. "When I came down to breakfast at the inn, my dress did not please him, and he made me alter it entirely before he would stir a step with us about the town, saying most satirical things concerning the appearance I made in a riding-habit; and adding, 'Tis very strange that such eyes as yours cannot discern propriety of dress: if I had a sight only half as good, I think I should see to the centre.'"-DUPPA]

[Mr. Richard Green was an apothecary, and related to Dr. Johnson. He had a considerable collection of antiquities, natural curiosities, and ingenious works of art. He had all the articles accurately arranged, with their names upon labels, and on the staircase leading to it was a board, with the names of contributors marked in gold letters. A printed catalogue of the collection was to be had at a bookseller's.—DUPPA.]

3 [Mr. Newton was a gentleman, long resident in Lichfield, who had acquired a large fortune in the East Indies.-DUPPA.]

4 [Mrs. Cobb was a widow lady who lived at a place called the Friary, close to Lichfield.-DUPPA.]

5 [Dr. Erasmus Darwin: at this time he lived at Lichfield, where he had

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Saturday, 9th July.-Breakfasted at Mr. Garrick's-Visited Miss Vyse-Miss Seward -Went to Dr. Taylor's [at Ashbourn]-I read a little on the road in Tully's Epistles and Martial-Mart. 8th, 44, lino pro limo*.

Sunday, 10th July.-Morning, at church-Company at dinner.

Monday, 11th July.-At Ilam 5-At Oakover 6 -I was less pleased with Ilam than when I saw it first, but my friends were much delighted.

Tuesday, 12th July.-At Chatsworth-The water willow-The cascade, shot out from many spouts -The fountains-The water tree-The smooth floors in the highest rooms-Atlas, fifteen hands inch and half-River running through the park

practised as a physician from the year 1756, and did not settle at Derby till after his second marriage with Mrs. Pool, in the year 1781. Miss Seward says, that although Dr. Johnson visited Lichfield while Dr. Darwin lived there, they had only one or two interviews, and never afterwards sought each other. Mutual and strong dislike subsisted between them. Dr. Darwin died April 18th, 1802, in the sixty-ninth year of his age.-DUPPA.]

1 ["Peter Garrick, the elder brother of David, strongly resembling him in countenance and voice, but of more sedate and placid manners.' See post, 21st March, 1775.-ED. "I think Peter Garrick was an attorney, but he seemed to lead an independent life, and talked all about fishing. Dr. Johnson recommended him to read Walton's Angler, repeating some verses from it.”—Piozzi MS.]

2 [A daughter of the Rev. Archdeacon Vyse, of the diocese of Lichfield and Coventry. DUPPA.]

["Dr. Johnson would not suffer me to speak to Miss Seward."-Piozzi MS. So early was the coolness between them.-Ed.]

4 [In the edition of Martial, which he was reading, the last word of the line “Defluat, et lento splendescat turbida limo,”

was, no doubt, misprinted lino.-ED.]

5 [See observations on Ilam, post, 24th July, 1774, and 22d September, 1777. -ED.]

6 [Oakover is the seat of a very ancient family of the same name, a few miles from Ilam.-ED.]

7 ["There was a water-work at Chatsworth with a concealed spring, which, upon touching, spouted out streams from every bough of a willow-tree. I remember Lady Keith (Miss Thrale), then ten years old, was the most amused by it of any of the party."-Piozzi MS.]

8 ["Old oak floors polished by rubbing. Johnson, I suppose, wondered that they should take such pains with the garrets.”—Piozzi MS.]

9 [This was a race-horse, which was very handsome and very gentle, and attracted so much of Dr. Johnson's attention, that he said, "of all the duke's possessions, I like Atlas best."-Dupra.]

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The porticoes on the sides support two galleries for Tour to the first floor-My friends were not struck with the house-It fell below my ideas of the furniture-The staircase is in the corner of the house-The hall in the corner', the grandest room, though only a room of passage-On the ground-floor, only the chapel and the breakfast-room, and a small library; the rest, servants' rooms and offices-A bad inn.

Wednesday, 13th July.-At Matlock.

Thursday, 14th July.-At dinner at Oakover; too deaf to hear, or much converse-Mrs. GellThe chapel at Oakover -The wood of the pews grossly painted-I could not read the epitaphWould learn the old hands.

Friday, 15th July.-At Ashbourn-Mrs. Dyott* and her daughters came in the morning-Mrs. Dyott dined with us-We visited Mr. Flint.

“ Τὸ πρῶτον Μῶρος, τὸ δὲ δεύτερον εἷλεν Ερασμός,

Τὸ τριτὸν εκ Μεσῶν στέμμα Μίκυλλος ἔχεις.

Saturday, 16th July.-At Dovedale, with Mr.

[Quere, whether these words are not an erroneous repetition of the same words in the preceding line.-ED.]

2

[This was the second time Johnson had visited Chatsworth. See ante, 26th November, 1772; and his letter to Mrs. Thrale The friend, mentioned in that extract, was, it appears, from Mrs. Piozzi's MS., Dr. Percy, and the allusion was sarcastic. Mrs. Piozzi writes, “ Bishop Percy's lady lived much with us at Brighthelmstone, and used (foolishly enough perhaps) to show us her husband's letters: in one of these he said, I am enjoying the fall of a murmuring stream, but to you who reside close to the roaring ocean such scenery would be insipid. At this Dr. Johnson laughed as a ridiculous affectation, and never forgot it."-Piozzi MS.-ED.]

3 [There is no chapel at Oakover, but a small parish church close to the house, which, however, has no pulpit, and thence perhaps Dr. Johnson calls it a chapel. ED.]

4 [The Dyotts were a respectable and wealthy Staffordshire family. The person who shot Lord Brook, when assaulting St. Chad's cathedral in Lichfield, on St. Chad's day, in 1643, is said to have been a Mr. Dyott.-ED.]

>[" More bore away the first crown of the Muses, Erasmus the second, and Micyllus has the third."—ED.]

[Jacobus Micyllus, whose real name was Melchor, died 1558, aged 55. In the MS. Johnson has introduced by the side of six, as if he were doubtful whether that tense ought not to have been adopted.-DUPPA. It does not appear whether these verses are Johnson's. Micyllus's real name was Moltzer; see his article in Bayle. His best work was "De re Metrica."-En.]

1

Tour to Langley and Mr. Flint. It is a place that deserves

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a visit; but did not answer my expectation. The river is small, the rocks are grand. Reynard's Hall is a cave very high in the rock; it goes backward several yards, perhaps eight. To the left is a small opening, through which I crept, and found another cavern, perhaps four yards square; at the back was a breach yet smaller, which I could not easily have entered, and, wanting light, did not inspect. I was in a cave yet higher, called Reynard's Kitchen. There is a rock called the Church, in which I saw no resemblance that could justify the name. Dovedale is about two miles long. We walked towards the head of the Dove, which is said to rise about five miles above two caves called the Dogholes, at the foot of Dovedale. In one place, where the rocks approached, I proposed to build an arch from rock to rock over the stream, with a summer-house upon it. The water murmured pleasantly among the stones.

I thought that the heat and exercise mended my hearing. I bore the fatigue of the walk, which was very laborious, without inconvenience.

There were with us Gilpin3 and Parker*. Having heard of this place before, I had formed some imperfect idea, to which it did not answer. Brown 5 says he was disappointed. I certainly expected a large river where I found only a clear quick brook.

[The Rev. Mr. Langley was master of the grammar school at Ashbourn. A near neighbour of Dr. Taylor's, but not always on friendly terms with him, which used sometimes to perplex their mutual friend Johnson.-ED.]

2 [This rock is supposed rudely to resemble a tower; hence, it has been called the Church.-DU PPA. It rather, according to the Editor's recollection, resembles a gothic spire or steeple.-ED.]

3["Mr. Gilpin was an accomplished youth, at this time an under-graduate at Oxford. His father was an old silversmith near Lincoln's-inn-fields."Piozzi MS.]

4 [John Parker, of Brownsholme, in Lancashire, esq.-DUPPA.]

5 [Mrs. Piozzi" rather thought" that this was Capability Browne, whose opinion on a point of landscape, probably gathered from Gilpin or Parker, Johnson thought worth recording.-ED.]

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I believe I had imaged a valley enclosed by rocks, Tour to and terminated by a broad expanse of water. He that has seen Dovedale has no need to visit the Highlands'.

In the afternoon we visited old Mrs. Dale.

Sunday, 17th July.-Sunday morning, at church -Ka-Afternoon, at Mr. Dyott's.

Monday, 18th July.-Dined at Mr. Gell's'.

Tuesday, 19th July.-We went to Kedleston to see Lord Scardale's new house, which is very costly, but ill contrived-The hall is very stately, lighted by three skylights; it has two rows of marble pillars, dug, as I hear from Langley, in a quarry of Northamptonshire; the pillars are very large and massy, and take up too much room; they were better away. Behind the hall is a circular saloon, useless, and therefore ill contrived-The corridors that join the wings to the body are mere passages through segments of circles-The state bedchamber was very richly furnished-The dining parlour was more splendid with gilt plate than any that I have seen— There were many pictures-The grandeur was all below The bedchambers were small, low, dark, and fitter for a prison than a house of splendour-The kitchen has an opening into the gallery, by which its heat and its fumes are dispersed over the house-There seemed in the whole more cost than judgment.

We went then to the silk mill at Derby, where I

["Dovedale and the Highlands are surely as dissimilar as any places can be."-Piozzi MS.]

2 [Mrs. Dale was at this time ninety-three years of age.-DUPPA.]

3 Kadaga.-Throughout this Diary, when Johnson is obliged to turn his thoughts to the state of his health, he always puts his private memoranda in the learned languages as if to throw a slight veil over those ills which he would willingly have hid from himself.-DUPPA.]

4 [Mr. Gell, of Hopton Hall, a short distance from Carsington, in Derbyshire; the father of Sir William Gell, well known for his topography of Troy, and other literary works, who was born 1775. July 12, 1775, Mr. Gell is now rejoicing, at fifty-seven, for the birth of an heir-male."-Dr. Johnson to Mrs. Thrale.-DUPPA.]

[See post, 15th Sept. 1777.-ED.] VOL. III.

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