A JOURNEY TO THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOT L A N D. I HAD desired to visit the HEBRIDES, or West ern Islands of Scotland, so long, that I scarcely remember how the with was originally excited ; and was in the Autumn ef the year 1773 induced to undertake the journey, by finding in Mr Borwell a companion, whose acuteness would help my inquiry, and whose gaiety of conversation and civility of manners are sufficient to counteract the inconveniences of travel, in countries less hofpitable than we have paffed. On the eighteenth of August we left Edinburgh, a city too well known to admit description, and directed our course northward, along the caftern coast of Scotland, accompanied the first day by another gentleman, who could say with us only long А |