NOTES. 



Note I. 

 / saw two thousand horse all advance in division over these silly 



shores. P. 71. 



The passage of the Solway Sands, by a large body of cavalry, was 

 a sight which might have been seen more than once during the great 

 Civil Wars. In 1648, the Duke of Hamilton entered England by 

 the way of Carlisle, and, in 1651, Charles II. took the same route. 

 In both of these ill-fated expeditions, it is probable that a large 

 part of the Scottish cavalry crossed the Solway, near Burgh on the 

 sands. It is scarce necessary to add, that, chance when it would, 

 the description in the text must be considered as exceedingly hyper- 

 bolical. 



Note II. 



1'se butfet my spear and cutrements. P. 72. 

 The people who dwell on either side of the Solway have an un- 

 common mode of taking salmon, by pursuing the fish on horseback, 

 and at full gijlop, through the shallows which are left by the tide 

 in its retreat. The guide, who attends Theophilus and Arnoldus, 

 takes his leister, or salmon-spear, along with him, that, in his own 

 phrase, in case he meet with a fish, he may mar his march to the 

 sea any more. This may be called a sort of salmon-hunting. 



