A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND. A NEW EDITION. EDINBURGH PRINTED FOR LAWRIE & SYMINGTON, PARLIA 179202 A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS O F I SCOTLAND. HAD defired to vifit the HEBRIDES, or Weft ern Iflands of Scotland, fo long, that I fcarcely remember how the wifh was originally excited; and was in the Autumn of the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr Bofwell a companion, whose acutenefs would help my inquiry, and whofe gaiety of converfation and civility of manners are fufficient to counteract the inconveniences 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 courfe northward, along the caftern coaft of Scotland, accompanied the first day by another gentleman, who could ftay with us only |