Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland

he Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Boswell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gai

rected our course northward, along the eastern coast of Scotland, accompanied the first day by an

olicited their notice. Here, by climbing with some difficulty over shattered crags, we made the first experiment of unfrequented coasts. Inch Keith is nothing more than a rock covered with a thin lay

ege, but merely to afford cover to a few soldiers, who perhaps had the charge of a battery, or were stationed to give signals of approaching danger. There is therefore no provision of water within the walls, tho

had been placed at the same distance from London, with the same facility of approach; with what emulation of price a f

y, and Cowpar, places not unlike the small or straggling market-towns in those

art of Scotland, and at so small a distan

is made indeed with great labour, but it never wants repairs; and in those parts where adventitious materials are necessary, the ground once consolidated is rarely broken; for the inland commerce is not great, nor are heavy commodities often t