A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS O F SCOTLAN d. BY DOCTOR SAMUEL JOHNSON. VO L. I. DUBLIN: PRINTED FOR A. LEATHLEY, J. EXSHAW, M, DC C, L X X V. A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS O F SCOTLAND. HAD defired to vifit the Hebrides, or Wetter lands of settland, video, or that I scarcely remember how the wish was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr. Bofwell a companion, whofe acuteness would help my inquiry, and whofe gaiety of converfation and civility of manners are fufficient to counteract the inconveniencies of travel, in countries lefs hofpitable than we have paffed. On the eighteenth of Auguft we left Edinburgh, a city too well known to admit defcription, and directed our course northward, along the eastern coaft of Scotland, accompanied the firft day by another gentleman, who could ftay with us only long enough to fhew us how much we loft at separation. As we croffed the Frith of Forth, our curiofity was attracted by Inch Keith, a fmall ifland, which neither, of my companions had ever vifited, though, lying within their view, it had all their lives sölicited their notice. Here, by climbing with fome difficulty over shattered crags, we made the first experiment of unfrequented coafts. Inch Keith is nothing more than a rock covered with a thin. layer |