The first ten essays, published in 1597, were brief notebook jottings of Bacon's observations.

While walking I made jottings in pencil (with Baudin's pencil, which I had with me); I registered facts at random; I reproduce this page here.

Next rose an ex-Senator, who said he had come wholly unprepared to speak, but, being unexpectedly called upon, had made some brief jottings on a visiting-card, to which he would now refer.

Here are a few jottings at random from my diary, which may still have some little interest.

[Footnote 100: A. DePuy Van Buren, Jottings of a Sojourn in the South (Battle Creek, Mich., 1859), pp.