described?  Mr. Bruce’s pool of water may have been formed since; and
    Lobo, perhaps, was content to sit down without a bench.
[f] After comparing this description with that lately given by Mr.
    Bruce, the reader will judge, whether Lobo is to lose the honour of
    having been at the head of the Nile, near two centuries before any
    other European traveller.
[g] See the Gentleman’s Magazine for 1736, p. 418.
[h] It is added to the present edition of Dr. Johnson’s works; vol. v.
    p. 202.
[i] Afterwards earl of Roslin.  He died January 3, 1805.

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[k] Mr. Boswell says, “The simple truth I had from Johnson himself. 
    ’Sir, he was impertinent to me, and I beat him.  But it was not in
    his shop:  it was in my own chamber.’”
[l] Dr. Johnson denies the whole of this story.  See Boswell’s Life, vol.
    i. p. 128. oct. edit. 1804.
[m] Letter 212. [n] See Gent.  Mag. vol. lxxi. p. 190. [o] It has since been paralleled, in the case of the Shakespeare MSS. by
    a yet more vile impostor.
[p] Life of Johnson, vol. i. p.328. 4to. edit. [q] See Gentleman’s Magazine for Nov. and Dec. 1787. [r] See Gentleman’s Magazine for Dec. 1787, p. 1042. [s] This work was not published until the year 1767, when Dr. Johnson’s
    Dictionary was fully established in reputation.
[t] See Scaliger’s epigram on this subject, (communicated, without
    doubt, by Dr. Johnson,) Gent.  Mag. 1748, p. 8.
[u] See Johnson’s epitaph on him, in this volume, p. 130.

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[x] Mr. Boswell’s account of this introduction is very different from
    the above.  See his Life of Johnson, vol. i. p. 360. 8vo. edit. 1804.
[y] It is there deposited.
[z] Before this authentic communication, Mr. Nichols had given, in the
    volume of the Gentleman’s Magazine, for 1781, p. 370, the following
    account of the Universal History.  The proposals were published
    October 6, 1729; and the authors of the first seven volumes were,

Vol.  I. Mr. Sale, translator of the Koran.  IV.  The same as vol. iii. 
    II.  George Psalmanazar.  V. Mr. Bower. 
   III.  George Psalmanazar.  VI.  Mr. Bower. 
        Archibald Bower.  Rev. John Swinton. 
        Captain Shelvock.  VII.  Mr. Swinton. 
        Dr. Campbell.  Mr. Bower.

[aa] On the subject of voluntary penance, see the Rambler, No. 110.
[bb] It is to be regretted, that he was not encouraged in this
     undertaking.  The assistance, however, which he gave to Davies, in
     writing the Life of Garrick, has been acknowledged, in general
     terms, by that writer, and, from the evidence of style, appears to
     have been very considerable.