before the coming of Christ,--by the Romans. And the
people still remember and bless them for that convenience, and say to
one another, that as the Romans were the bravest men to fight, so they
were the best at building roads.

"Chiefs! Our road is not built to last a thousand years, yet in a sense
it is. When a road is once built, it is a strange thing how it collects
traffic, how every year, as it goes on, more and more people are found
to walk thereon and others are raised up to repair and perpetuate it and
keep it alive; so that perhaps even this road of ours may, from
reparation to reparation, continue to exist and be useful hundreds and
hundreds of years after we are mingled in the dust. And it is my hope
that our far-away descendants may remember and bless those who laboured
for them to-day."

INDEX TO THE LETTERS

[_For short Index to VOLS. I.-XXII., see pp. 509-519._]

"Abbe Coignard" (France), xxv. 409, 410

_Academy, The_, xxiii. _intro._ xvii., 166; contributions to, xxiii.
184, xxv. 364

"Across the Plains," xxv. 123 & _n._ 1, xxv. 207, 224, 301 _n._ 1;
dedication, xxv. 127 & _n._ 1, xxv. 323 & _n._ 1; inception, xxv. 97 &
_n._ 1

"Actor's Wife," projected, xxiii. 308

Adams, Henry, historian, xxv. 4, 29, 41, 43, 45

"Address to the Unco Guid" (Burns), xxiii. 225

"Adela Chart" ("The Marriages," H. James), xxv. 108-9, 110

"Adelaide," song (Beethoven), xxiii. 64

Adirondack Mountains, stay in, xxiv. 234, 306 _et seq._

Admiral Benbow inn (Treasure Island), xxiii. 327

"Admiral Guinea," play (with Henley), xxiii. 327; xxiv. 106, 119, 120,
146, 147; xxv. 447

"Admiral," the (Story of a Lie), xxiii. 248, 249; xxiv. 90

"Adventures of David Balfour," proposed double volume of, xxv. 283,
357, 366

"AEneid," reading of, xxiv. 186, 265, 306

"AEsthetic Letters" (Schiller), xxiv. 71

Ahab, King, xxv. 304

"Ah perfido spergiuro," song, xxiii. 166

_Aitu fafine_, an, xxv. 41, 135

Alabama case, xxiii. 110

"Aladdin" (Pyle), xxv. 164

Alais, visit to, xxiii. 216

"Alan Breck Stewart," ("Catriona" and "Kidnapped"), xxiv. 201, 203,
xxv. 46, 142; letter as from, xxv. 46-8

Alexander, J. W., xxiv. 249, 250; drawing by, of R. L. S., xxiv. 199

Allan Ramsay, Fergusson and Burns, essay on, projected, xxiii. 191,
192, 193

Allen, Grant, ballade by, xxiv. 248

"Amateur Emigrant," xxiii. 235, 237, 239,