14 ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY LIFE [ch. il 
prosecuting their study of these sciences, doubtless 
absorbed much of their time and thought in the 
first half of the year 1817, to the advantage and 
enjoyment of both. 
The earlier of the two extant MS. journals, above 
referred to, begins thus 1 “Old Aberdeen, Sunday, 
3rd August 1817,” and proceeds as follows :— 
“I am again determined for a tour through 
part of the Highlands and Isles. In regard to 
my motives, the principal one is connected with 
the article pecunia, but it would be doing injustice 
to my favourite study not to say that natural 
history also puts in its vote for the expedition. 
Mr James Shand, actuated by a desire of extending 
his knowledge on topography and zoology, intends 
to accompany me. He has already made his 
departure, but will meet me to-morrow at Kemnay. 
My baggage will be heavy, but I submit with 
cheerfulness to any temporary inconvenience wdien 
it becomes the means of procuring permanent 
benefit. I may here with propriety enough give 
an account in detail of my accoutrements. In the 
first place, my clothes differ in nothing from those 
commonly worn. I take some changes of femoralia 
and pectoralia, linen, stockings, and two pairs of 
shoes. My hat is just like those of my neighbours, 
without the vast umbelliform brim which character¬ 
ises the physical and Linnean cut! For my studies 
and amusements by the way, I take the first part 
of the first and third volumes of the Systerna Naturce 
of Sir Charles Smith’s compendium Flora Britan- 
nica , Campbell’s Pleasures of Hope , drawing paper, 
pencils, paints and crayons, paper, ink, and pens, 
one pound of gunpowder, six pounds of shot, flints 
and bullets, powder-horn and fowling piece, han- 
line and hooks, and a quarter a pound of snuff. 
