THE NORTHERN MEMOIRS. -373 



And with the same thei slashe me out, 



good God ! what pretie shives. 

 Not shives of bread I meane, 



for that were verie rare,* 

 But gobbes of fleshe not boyld inough, 



whiche is their common fare. 

 Their chiefest drinke is milke ; 



for want of milke, the brothe 

 Thei take ; which thing the surgion sweares 



Is phisicke, by his trothe. j- 



Xote XXX. 

 John a Groat.?. 209. 



This extreme inhabitant of Scotland lived upon the Pen tland Frith, 

 close by Duncan's bay-head. His dwelling is no more, and the site 

 is occupied by a magazine. But some of the patriarch's descendants, 

 in the fourth generation, reside in Caithness and Orkney. The fa- 

 ble of the barnacles, which follows, was echoed in all descriptions 

 of Scotland until of late years. Hence Cleveland's jest : 



A Scot, when from the gallows tree broke loose, 

 Drops into Styx, and turns a Solun-goose. 



Note XXXI. 



Dunrobin. P. 211, 212. 



Dunrobin is the baronial castle of the family of Sutherland ; 

 much enlarged and improved by the Marquis and Marchioness of 

 Stafford. 



* " A Bohemian baron, whose curiosity led him through Ireland, in the 



heat of Tyrone's rebellion, during eight days' journey, found no bread, not 



so much as a cake of oats, till he came to dine with Tyrone himself." Mon- 



M 's Travels. Part III. p. 103 " Con-more, the great O'Neal, cursed 



any of his pedigree who should learn English, build houses, or sow com." 



+ Ix>rd Corners' Tracts, second edition, 1801). Vol. I. p. a88. 580. 



