across to Tangier and the land of
the Moors. I had a few Spanish Testaments still in my possession, and my
object was to circulate them among the Christians of Tangier.

NOTE.--At this point the narrative abruptly ends. Borrow returned from
Morocco to England in the spring of 1840.

JAMES BOSWELL

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

_I.--Edinburgh, Fifeshire, and Aberdeen_

Boswell's first considerable book was a lively description
of his tour in Corsica, but his fame rests on his "Life of
Dr. Johnson" (see LIVES AND LETTERS), and his "Journal of
a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D." was
really the first portion of that great work, and was
meant, as he himself said, "to delineate Dr. Johnson's
manners and character" more than to give any detailed
descriptions of scenery. We have chosen to include it in
the travel section of our work, however, as it might be
more readily looked for there than under "Johnson" in the
department of "Lives and Letters." The journal was
published in the autumn of 1785, about nine months after
the death of Johnson.

Dr. Johnson had for many years given me hopes that we should go together
and visit the Hebrides. In spring, 1773, he talked of coming to Scotland
that year with so much firmness that I hoped he was at last in earnest.
I knew that if he were once launched from the metropolis he would go
forward very well. Luckily, Mr. Justice (now Sir Robert) Chambers
conducted Dr. Johnson from London to Newcastle; and Mr. Scott, of
University College, Oxford, accompanied him from thence to Edinburgh.

On Saturday, August 14, 1773, late in the evening, I received a note
from him, that he had arrived in Boyd's Inn, at the head of the
Canongate. I went to him directly. He embraced me cordially, and I
exulted in the thought that I had him actually in Caledonia. He was to
do me the honour to lodge under my roof. We walked arm-in-arm up the
High Street to my house in James's Court. It was a dusky night; but he
acknowledged that the breadth of the street, and the loftiness of the
buildings on each side, made a noble appearance. My wife had tea ready,
which it is well known he delighted to drink at all hours; and he showed
much complacency upon finding that the mistress of the house was so
attentive to his singular habit. On Sunday, after dinner, Principal
Robertson came and drank wine with us, and there was some animated
dialogue. During the next two