Note 16:1 — Chapter I
Reading edition
From a scroll in the MSS. bequeathed by Baron Hume to the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
An account of these MSS. will be found in the Preface. Henceforth, for the sake of brevity, they will be referred to thus—MS. R.S.E. A part of the above letter has been already printed in the Literary Gazette for 1821, p. 762.