Forty-two persons took shelter in the house of Mary Rowlandson, the wife of the minister of the place.

"Quickly," says Mrs. Rowlandson in her narrative, "it was the dolefullest day that ever mine eyes saw.

" Mrs. Rowlandson and her child were afterward recovered from the savages.

Boswell mentions them so often that in Rowlandson's caricatures of the tour he is commonly represented as having them in his hand or pocket.

The last of Rowlandson's Caricatures of Boswell's Journal is entitled Revising for the Second Edition.

Continuing, he said, according to the newspaper report, "On looking back to the political lampoons of Rowlandson's and Gilray's time they would find them coarse and brutal.

Rowlandson and Gilray did not fight merely because they were naturally pothouse pugilists; they fought because they had something to fight about.

In my note on the suppression of offensive passages in the second edition of Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (ante, v. 148), I mention that Rowlandson in one of his Caricatures paints Boswell begging Sir Alexander Macdonald for mercy, while on the ground lie pages 165, 167, torn out.

OGDEN, Rev. Dr. Samuel, Sermons, Boswell edified by them, v. 29; caricatured by Rowlandson, ib., n. 1; Johnson wishes to read them, iii. 248; tries to, v. 29, 88; prevailed on to read one aloud, v. 350; on original sin, iv.

ROWLANDSON, Thomas, caricature of Boswell revising the Second Edition, v. 148, n. 1.

ROWLANDSON, THOMAS, caricaturist, born in London; studied art in Paris; gambled and lived extravagantly; led a roving life in England and Wales; displayed great versatility and strength in his artistic work, e. g. in "Imitations of Modern Drawings," illustrations to Sterne's "Sentimental Journey," "Munchausen's Travels," &c.; ridiculed Napoleon in many cartoons (1756-1827).