Note 18 — NOTE. THE CLERKS OF PENICUIK AND MAXWELLS OF MIDDLEBIE.

Vol. ii. p. 7. “The only figure I distinctly recollect and got printed on my brain that night was John Clerk, there veritably hitching about, whose grim, strong countenance, with its black, far-projecting brows and look of great sagacity, fixed him in my memory.... Except Clerk, I carried no figure away with me.”