Note 696 — REIGN OF GEORGE II.: 1727–1748.

Notes to 2d ed. of Burt’s Letters. There being a distinction between natural tracks, such as formerly existed in the Highlands, and made roads, and ‘made’ being used here in a secondary and technical sense, it is not absolutely necessary to suppose, as has been supposed, that the author of this couplet was an Irish subaltern quartered at Fort William.