Lismahago,  though  intensely  Scotch,  is  also  very  largely
individual.  He  is  very  nearly,  if  not  quite,  on  a  level
with  Richie  Moniplies  and  Dugald  Dalgetty,  if  he  falls
short  of  the  Baron  and  the  Antiquary.  It  is  curious
by  the  way  that  Scott,  unduly  as  he  exalts  Smollett,  is
actually  unjust  to  Lismahago,  saying  little  more  of  him
than  that  he  was  "  perhaps  not  a  caricature,"  though,
or  because,  he  himself  knew  the  assigned  original.
