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"On horseback in a ship"-borrowed from the jests of Hierocles.

after death, insert—and.

after "notes," instead of the present reference, read ante, vol. ii. p. 313, and post, p. 95. for aeliciis, read-deliciis.

add-afterwards wife of Dr. Spencer Madan, bishop of Peterborough.-HARWOOD.

for Hales, read-Hailes.

for painter, read-printer.

for degree, read desire.

for Harw. MS., read—Gent. Mag. 1797, p. 455. Perhaps the squabble between the disputants at

the end of Jupiter the Tragic was meant. This gentleman was probably Mr. Joseph Fowke. See Miscellaneous Letters, General Appendix; and the letters mentioned p. 387 were probably those referred to in that corre spondence.

386, note 2,-line 5,. Lord Lucan and Bishop Porteus should also have

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THE

LIFE

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SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL. D.

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Wednesday, 13th October.-CoL called me up, Tour to with intelligence that it was a good day for a passage to Mull; and just as we rose, a sailor from the vessel arrived for us. We got all ready with despatch. Dr. Johnson was displeased at my bustling and walking quickly up and down. He said, "It does not hasten us a bit. It is getting on horseback in a ship. All boys do it; and you are longer a boy than others." He himself has no alertness, or whatever it may be called; so he may dislike it, as Oderunt hilarem tristes.

Before we reached the harbour, the wind grew high again. However, the small boat was waiting, and took us on board. We remained for some time in uncertainty what to do; at last it was determined, that, as a good part of the day was over, and it was dangerous to be at sea at night, in such a vessel, and such weather, we should not sail till the morning tide, when the wind would probably be more gentle. We resolved not to go ashore again, but lie here in readiness. Dr. Johnson and I had each a bed in the cabin. Col sat at the fire in the forecastle, with the captain, and Joseph, and the rest. I eat some dry

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Tour to oatmeal, of which I found a barrel in the cabin. I

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had not done this since I was a boy. Dr. Johnson owned that he too was fond of it when a boy; a circumstance which I was highly pleased to hear from him, as it gave me an opportunity of observing that, notwithstanding his joke on the article of OATS, he was himself a proof that this kind of food was not peculiar to the people of Scotland.

Thursday, 14th October.-When Dr. Johnson awaked this morning, he called "Lanky!" having, I suppose, been thinking of Langton, but corrected himself instantly, and cried, "Bozzy!" He has a way of contracting the names of his friends. Goldsmith feels himself so important now, as to be dis*1. pleased at it *

Between six and seven we hauled our anchor, and set sail with a fair breeze; and, after a pleasant voyage, we got safely and agreeably into the harbour of Tobermorie, before the wind rose, which it always has done, for some days, about noon.

Tobermorie is an excellent harbour. An island lies before it, and it is surrounded by a hilly theatre. The island is too low, otherwise this would be quite a secure port; but, the island not being a sufficient protection, some storms blow very hard here. Not long ago, fifteen vessels were blown from their moorings. There are sometimes sixty or seventy sail here: to-day there were twelve or fourteen vessels. To see such a fleet was the next thing to seeing a town. The vessels were from different places; Clyde, Campbell-town, Newcastle, &c. One was returning to Lancaster from Hamburgh. After having been shut up so long in Col, the sight of such an assemblage of moving habitations, containing such a variety

[Here followed Davies's anecdote about Goldsmith's displeasure at being called Goldy, which will be found ante, vol. ii. p. 242.—ED.]

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