. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ls varying from three to six feet thick. The house stair, too, isworthy of note, a stair of similar style being found at The College and Innes House. The arrangement of some of the small windowsis quaint. At one time there had been double garrets, but the upperone, reached by a ladder, has been discontinued. The garret to thesouth is interesting, especially the wooden pegs affixing the rafters andthe wooden nails protruding throiigh from the slates. The close at No. 50 is well worth looking at. One may heredirect attenti
. Elgin past and present : a historical guide / by Herbert B. Mackintosh. ls varying from three to six feet thick. The house stair, too, isworthy of note, a stair of similar style being found at The College and Innes House. The arrangement of some of the small windowsis quaint. At one time there had been double garrets, but the upperone, reached by a ladder, has been discontinued. The garret to thesouth is interesting, especially the wooden pegs affixing the rafters andthe wooden nails protruding throiigh from the slates. The close at No. 50 is well worth looking at. One may heredirect attention to the peculiarity that the doors and windows in allthe old closes faced east. The adjoining property, Nos. 44 and 46, is another example of thesame class, of date 1688. It, however, has been remodelled house was the Red Lion Inn, where Dr Johnson felt aggrievedand wrote of his visit to Elgin, this was the first time I found anyreason to complain of a Scottish table. There is nothing in hisWorks indicating the Red Lion, but this is the Inn the stage-. Close, No. 50 High Street. ELGIN PAST AND PRESENT 11 coaches put up at. It is curious to trace the origin of this dinner asvouched for by such respected citizens as Mr Isaac Forsyth, Mr JohnJack, Mr Robert Grigor, and others. For sometime previous to theyear in which Dr Johnson visited Elgin, a merchant named ThomasPaufer was accustomed to come for business. This gentleman caredlittle for eating but liked the more exhilarating system of means were limited, and he was in the habit of ordering only avery slender dinner, that he might spend more on the pleasures of thebottle. Dr Johnson bore a very striking resemblance to Paufer, andwhen the doctor arrived at the Inn the waiter by a hasty glance mistookhim, and such dinner was prepared as Paufer was wont to Doctor suffered by the mistake for he did not ask what was tofollow. Thus the good name of Elgin also suffered through the mis-taking t
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