Kilt

Your correspondent Σ. will find some information regarding the introduction of the *kilt* into Scotland in a volume entitled *Notes to assist the Memory in various Sciences*, 2d edition, London, Murray, 1827. I quote the passage, p. 297.: "*The Pheliebeg.* Thomas Rawlinson, an iron-smelter and an Englishman, was the person who, about or prior to A. D. 1728, introduced the pheliebeg, or short kilt, worn in the Highlands. This fact, very little known, is established in a letter from Ewan Baillie, of Oberiachan, inserted in the *Edinburgh Magazine* for 1785, and also by the Culloden Papers." The…