ADVERTISEMENT. TH HE following Sheets were written foon after Dr. Johnson's "Journey to the Hebrides" was printed. But as the writer had never made his appearance at the bar of the Public, he was unwilling to enter the lifts, with fuch a powerful antagonist, without previously confulting a few learned friends. The distance of those friends made it difficult to procure their opinion, without fome trouble and a great lofs of time: befides, the Author was not fo fond of his work as to be very anxious about its publication. He He is, however, fenfible, that the publication, if it was at all to happen, has been too long delayed. Answers to eminent writers are generally indebted, for their fale and circulation, to the works which they endeavour to refute. Unfortunately, Dr. Johnson's "Journey" has lain dead in the library, for fome time past. This confideration is fo difcouraging, that the writer of the Remarks expects little literary reputation, and lefs profit, from his labours. But, as he had gone fo far, he was induced to go further ftill, were it for nothing more than the ambition of fending his work to fleep, on the fame fhelf, with that of the learned Dr. Johnson. |