'
--_Memoirs of Edward Gibbon_, ed. 1827, i. 66.
_The new pavement in London._
(Vol. v, p. 84, n. 3.)
'By an Act passed in 1766, _For the better cleansing, paving, and
enlightning the City of London and Liberties thereof_, &c., powers
are granted in pursuance of which the great streets have been paved
with whyn-quarry stone, or rock-stone, or stone of a flat surface.'
--_A Tour through the whole Island of Great Britain_, ed. 1769,
vol. ii, p. 121.
_Boswell's Projected Works._
(Vol. v, p. 91, n. 2.)
To this list should be added an account of a Tour to the Isle of Man
(_ante_, iii. 80).
_A cancel in the first edition of Boswell's 'Journal of a Tour to the
Hebrides_.'
(Vol. v, p. 151.)
In my note on the suppression of offensive passages in the second edition
of Boswell's _Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides_ (_ante_, v. 148), I
mention that Rowlandson in one of his _Caricatures_ paints Boswell
begging Sir Alexander Macdonald for mercy, while on the ground lie
pages 165, 167, torn out. I have discovered, though too late to mention
in the proper place, that in the first edition the leaf containing pages
167, 168, was really cancelled. In my own copy I noticed between pages 168
and 169 a narrow projecting slip of paper. I found the same in the copy
in the British Museum. Mr. Horace Hart, the printer to the University,
who has kindly examined my copy, informs me that the leaf was cancelled
after the sheets had been stitched together.
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