Distances From Place to Place
| miles | miles | ||
| Grasmere to Keswick | 13 | Suie (road excellent) | 13 |
| Hesket Newmarket (road very bad) | 15 | Killin (tolerable) | 7 |
| Carlisle (bad road) | 14 | Kenmore (baddish) | 15 |
| Longtown (newly mended, not good) | 8 | Blair (bad) | 23 |
| Annan (good) | 14 | Fascally (wretchedly bad) | 18 |
| Dumfries (good) | 15 | Dunkeld (bad) | 12 |
| Brownhill (pretty good) | 12 | Ambletree (hilly—good) | 10 |
| Leadhills (tolerable) | 19 | Crieff (hilly—goodish) | 11 |
| Douglass Mill (very bad) | 12 | Loch Erne Head (tolerable) | 20 |
| Lanark (baddish) | 9 | Callander (most excellent) | 14 |
| Hamilton (tolerable) | 15 | Trossachs | 16 |
| Glasgow (tolerable) | 11 | Ferryman’s House (about 8) | 8 |
| Dumbarton (very good) | 15 | Callander to Falkirk (baddish) | 27 |
| Luss (excellent) | 13 | Edinburgh (good) | 24 |
| Tarbet (not bad) | 8 | Roslin (good) | 6 |
| Arrochar (good) | 2 | Peebles (good) | 16 |
| Cairndow (middling) | 12 | Clovenford (tolerable) | 16 |
| Inverary (very good) | 10 | Melrose (tolerable) | 8 |
| Dalmally (tolerable) | 16 | Dryburgh (good) | 4 |
| Taynuilt (excellent) | 13 | Jedburgh (roughish) | 10 |
| Portnacroish (tolerable) | 15 | Hawick (good) | 12 |
| Ballachulish (part most excellent) | 12 | Langholm (very good) | 24 |
| King’s House (bad) | 12 | Longtown (good) | 12 |
| Tyndrum (good) | 18 | Carlisle | 8 |
| Grasmere | 36 |
Footnotes
0a See Essays of R. H. Hutton, Esq., vol. ii.
0b See Appendix, pp. 304, 307.
0c The following is the entry referred to:—
‘October 4th, 1832.—I find that this tour was both begun and ended on a Sunday. I am sorry that it should have been so, though I hope and trust that our thoughts and feelings were not seldom as pious and serious as if we had duly attended a place devoted to public worship. My sentiments have undergone a great change since 1803 respecting the absolute necessity of keeping the Sabbath by a regular attendance at church.
‘D. W.’
9a Criffel.
9b Annandale.
11 See Appendix A.
20 There is some mistake here. The Hopetoun title was not taken from any place in the Leadhills, much less from the house shaped like an H.—Ed.
27 Probably the Rev. John Aird, minister of the parish, 1801–1815.
30 Ragweed.
31a Tinto.
33 New Lanark, Robert Owen’s mills.
36a Lady Mary Ross.
36b Corehouse.
36c See Appendix B.
45 The house belonging to the Earls of Hopetoun at Leadhills, not that which bears this name about twelve miles from Edinburgh.—Ed.
53 Glasgow Green.
56 No doubt Erskine House, the seat of Lord Blantyre.—Ed.
61 A huge isolated rock in Borrowdale, Cumberland, which bears that name.—Ed.
63 The inscription on the pillar was written by Professor George Stuart of Edinburgh, John Ramsay of Ochtertyre, and Dr. Samuel Johnson; for Dr. Johnson’s share in the work see Croker’s Boswell, p. 392.—Ed.
67 Camstraddan House and bay.—Ed.
80a This distinction between the foot and head is not very clear. What is meant is this: They would have to travel the whole length of the lake, from the west to the east end of it, before they came to the Trossachs, the pass leading away from the east end of the lake.—Ed.
93 There is a mistake here. His bones were laid about fifteen or twenty miles from thence, in Balquhidder kirkyard. But it was under the belief that his ‘grave is near the head of Loch Ketterine, in one of those pinfold-like burial grounds, of neglected and desolate appearance, which the traveller meets with in the Highlands of Scotland,’ that the well-known poem on ‘Rob Roy’s Grave’ was composed. See Note 15 at the end of volume.—Ed.
97 Goblins’ Cave.
113 To a Highland Girl. At Inversneyde upon Loch Lomond.
124 I should rather think so!—Ed.
131 ‘Capability’ Brown.
134 Quære, Cladich.—Ed.
139a Not very probable.
139b See Appendix C.
142 The Pass of Awe.—Ed.
155 Lochnell House.
160 Castle Stalker.
161 George, seventh Marquis of Tweeddale, being in France in 1803, was detained by Bonaparte, and died at Verdun, 9th August 1804.—Ed.
165 See Appendix D
177 Buchal, the Shepherd of Etive.
186 Quære, Luib.
187 The burial-place of Macnab of Macnab.
190 In this interval her dear brother, Captain Wordsworth, had been drowned, as stated in note to page 3, in the wreck of the ‘Abergavenny,’ on February 5, 1805.
210 See Appendix E.
215 Monzie probably.
216 Glen Ogle.
218 Ardhullary.
225a This is none other than the well-known Scottish word ‘gey,’—indifferently, tolerable, considerable.—Ed.
225b See Appendix F.
246 See Lockhart’s Life of Scott for an account of this visit, vol. i. pp. 402–7. Mr. L. says, ‘I have drawn up the account of this meeting from my recollection, partly of Mr. W.’s conversation, partly from that of his sister’s charming “Diary,” which he was so kind as to read to me on the 16th May 1836.’—Ed.
254 See Appendix G.
266 W. Laidlaw. See Scott’s Life, vol. i.
295 On the banks of the River Nid, near Knaresborough.
314 If this is not a misprint, the Lady had antedated her tour by two years, as she made it in 1796 and published it in 1799.