APPENDIX OF NOTES. 



I. (p. 7.) 



DAVID STUART ERSKINE, Earl of Buchan, was one of three remark- 

 able brothers, the others being Thomas, the Lord Chancellor, and 

 Henry, or Harry, as he was usually called. Lord Euchan was born 

 in 1742, and died in 1829. His career was eccentric rather than 

 great. He was renowned for extreme egotism, and the relics of this 

 propensity exist in a multitude of portraits of him, presented by 

 himself to the universities and other public institutions in Scot- 

 land. 



His two brothers figure at some length in the foregoing pages. 

 Lord Chancellor Erskine naturally has a place among them from 

 his eminent position. The notices of Henry Erskine are most 

 valuable, as contributing to rescue from obscurity one whose abilities 

 were far greater than his fame. Many thought him a man of higher 

 powers than his great brother, but he worked in a more limited 

 sphere, which gave him but a small place in the history of the time, 

 and his abilities did not take the direction of literature, so as to leave 

 a memorial by which posterity might estimate them. 



II. (p. 7.) 



In the days of Principal Robertson, descent from a Highland 

 family was not so attractive and interesting as it would be deemed 

 in the present day. Little is said of his Highland connection either 

 by himself or his biographers, but it seems clear that his family 

 were cadets of the House of Struan or Strewan in Perthshire. This 

 family was the chief of the Eobertsons, or the Clandonachie, as they 

 are called in Highland history. The believers in traditional High- 



