e Gregarach with the royal Stuarts. When I
last saw the tombstone, as far as I remember, I observed nothing but the
outline of the long sword.

{237} NOTE 16.--'_Thomas Wilkinson's_ "_Tour in Scotland_."'--PAGE 237.

Probably one of Wilkinson's poems, of which Wordsworth speaks
occasionally in his letters. 'The present Lord Lonsdale has a neighbour,
a Quaker, an amiable, inoffensive man, and a little of a poet too, who
has amused himself upon his own small estate upon the Emont, in twining
pathways along the banks of the river, making little cells and bowers
with inscriptions of his own writing.'--_Letter to Sir G. Beaumont_,
_Oct._ 17, 1805.

Wordsworth wrote the poem 'To a Spade of a Friend,' composed 'while we
were labouring together in his pleasure-grounds,' commencing--

'Spade with which Wilkinson hath tilled his land,
And shaped these pleasant walks by Emont's side,'

in memory of this friend.--See _Life_, vol. i. pp. 55, 323, 349.

DISTANCES FROM PLACE TO PLACE.

MILES MILES

Grasmere to Keswick 13 Suie (road 13
excellent)

Hesket Newmarket (road very 15 Killin 7
bad) (tolerable)

Carlisle (bad road) 14 Kenmore 15
(baddish)

Longtown (newly mended, not 8 Blair (bad) 23
good)

Annan (good) 14 Fascally 18
(wretchedly
bad)

Dumfries (good) 15 Dunkeld (bad) 12

Brownhill (pretty good) 12 Ambletree 10
(hilly--good)

Leadhills (tolerable) 19 Crieff (hilly-- 11
goodish)

Douglass Mill (very bad) 12 Loch Erne Head 20
(tolerable)

Lanark (baddish) 9 Callander (most 14
excellent)

Hamilton (tolerable) 15 Trossachs 16

Glasgow (tolerable) 11 Ferryman's 8