The 6 chapters in Bigelow's book are entitled: "Excursion from Edinburgh to Dublin," "Walk to Holyrood," "Tour to Loch Katrine and the Grampians," "A Day in Lorn," "Visit to the Grave of Colonel Gardiner," and "Pilgrimage to Melrose and Dryburgh Abbeys." Beckford's notes to the front blanks are cross-referenced to 12 pages of text. He is amused by the reference to "Zachary Boyd's doggerel version of the Bible -- highly ludicrous"; is intensely interested in the dinner which the author has in Edinburgh with Dr. Chalmers, himself enlarging on Dr. Chalmers' character ("a Herald of the Xtian. Faith, he rises by the majesty of more than mortal elevation --- even the thick skull of Spurzheim could not resist this spiritual battering ram"). Beckford transcribes the author's comment on the Irish as "all too much in the harum-scarum line," and approves of his reference to the "Extravagant fancy, licentious taste & vitiated sensibility of the voluptuous Lady Morgan." He likes Bigelow's notion of "the stranger" who "now searches uncertainly for the border line which formerly was traced in blood from Berwick Bay to the firth of Solway" but implies he could be more appreciative of Carlisle Castle ("A more noble or imposing pile ... is hardly to be met with in Gt. Britain -- it forms one great quadrangle, the outer circle of its walls being not less half a mile -- The enclosed area is now covered with a turf ... so fresh and smooth that no bowling green in England can surpass its beauty"). When Bigelow contrasts the beauty of a portrait of Mary Queen of Scots with the ugliness of the conductress who shows him round Holyrood House, Beckford's reaction becomes knife sharp: "Excuse me Mr. Bigelow if I cannot help observing that a sort of innate vulgarity peeps forth through all your fine phrases & redundant periods -- they glitter and tinkle; but not with the sound ... of sterling metal -- The old aristocratic conductress at Hollyrood House soon found you out (I guess) -- no wonder therefore her countenance assumed additional sourness -- or that she treated with very little obliging ceremony a person who called Mary Q. of Scots a royal Miss & prated about the gigantic villany of Darnley's mind ...."