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Rh places remarkable enough in themselves, but already described by those who viewed them at more leisure, or with much more skill."

On Tuesday, November 2, our travellers having ordered a chaise from Kilmarnock, drove to Auchinleck, where they arrived in time for dinner. "We purpose," wrote Johnson that same evening, "to stay here some days, more or fewer, as we are used."

He said "we" advisedly, for he knew that not only between Lord Auchinleck and himself there was little in common, but that also between the father and son there was no freedom of intercourse. "My father," Boswell once complained, "cannot bear that his son should talk with him as a man." How uncomfortable was his position at home is shown by a letter which he wrote to his friend the Rev. Mr. Temple in September, 1775:

It can scarcely be doubted that he is describing the position Which he himself held at home, in an essay which he published in the London Magazine in 1781 (p. 253):

"I knew a father who was a violent Whig, and used to attack his son for being a Tory, upbraiding him with being deficient in 'noble sentiments of liberty,' while at the same time he made this son live under his roof in such bondage, that he was not only afraid to stir from home without leave, like a child, but durst scarcely open