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[Note 669.4] "ROB ROY, to rescue the distress'd From villains' grasp, was bold and brave":- Rob Roy was a legendary cateran(1) and the eponymous hero of the novel by Walter Scott published in 1817 [ref: http://www.walterscott.lib.ed.ac.uk/works/novels/robroy.html]
[Note 669.5] "The steward comes to raise the joys":- In the autumn 1818 her accommodation was improved and she reappeared the following March with "separate Apartments for Ladies and Gentlemen, fitted up with Beds, and other accommodations which experience has pointed out necessary." [Ref: Professor A Graham Lappin. Private communication based on an article by him published in the Clyde Steamers magazine]
[Note 292.2] “But then owd Neddy engine” :- donkey-engine, a small steam-engine.
[Note 292.1] “To Hibbert and Platts shop then I went” :- iron founders and maunfacurers of textile machinery est 1820.
[Note 292.3] “To make a scoldin' woman a new cast iron tongue”:- This is the subject of bar417~Steam Tongue. Steam Tongue is a derivative of the Cork Leg and probably dates from 1835 or soon after. See derivative set ds001