20. Changeof London manners— Lazinesscensured—Landed
and traded interests compared—Gratitude considered 195
21. Description of Dunvegan—Lord Loval's pyramid—Ride
to Ulinish—Phipps's Voyage to the Isorth Pole . 198
22. Subterraneous house and vast cave in Ulinish—Swift's
Lord Orrery—Defects as well as virtues the proper subject of biography, though the life be written by a friend—Studied conclusions of letters—Whether al- lowable in dying men to maintain resentment to the last—Instructions for writing the lives of literary men —Fingal denied to be genuine, and pleasantly ridiculed 20!
23. Further disquisition on Fingal—Eminent men discon-
certed by a new mode of public appearance—Gar- rick, Johnson and Boswell on—Mrs. Montague's Essay on Shakespeare—Persons of consequence watched in London—Learning of the Scots from 1550 to 1650—