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This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places
other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
Traveller |
Section |
No. of Refs. |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 11: South-Eastern Scotland
|
21 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 12, Part 2: Glasgow and central Scotland
|
17 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 13, Part 2: Dundee, Aberdeen and the Highlands
|
13 |
James
Boswell |
November 8th to 22nd, 1773: Back to Edinburgh
|
11 |
William
Camden |
Scotland: South of the Antonine Wall
|
11 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 13, Part 1: Fife and Perth
|
11 |
Thomas
Pennant |
July 17-23: The Borders and Edinburgh
|
11 |
James
Boswell |
August 14th to 17th, 1773: In Edinburgh
|
10 |
John
Wesley |
1763-4: In Scotland Again; Methodist's Wealth; "No Law for Methodists"; Exhausting Days
|
7 |
Feargus
O'Connor |
O'Connor's tour of Scotland, January 1839
|
7 |
John
Wesley |
1781-4: An Ideal Circuit; Wesley in his Eighties; Wesley Visits Holland; Scotland
|
6 |
James
Boswell |
September 8th to 12th, 1773: Raasay; meeting with Flora McDonald
|
5 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 12, Part 1: South-Western Scotland
|
5 |
John
Wesley |
1774-6: Wesley Arrested; A Terrible Ride; A Methodist Isaac Newton; the American War
|
5 |
Thomas
Pennant |
July 24-31: Fife and Perthshire
|
5 |
James
Boswell |
August 18th to 20th, 1773: From Edinburgh to Montrose
|
4 |
James
Boswell |
August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen
|
4 |
Thomas
Pennant |
September 5-17: Inveraray to Edinburgh
|
4 |
James
Boswell |
Introduction
|
3 |
James
Boswell |
Sept. 1st to 7th, 1773: Glen Moriston to Skye
|
3 |
James
Boswell |
September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye
|
3 |
James
Boswell |
October 23rd to 26th, 1773: Inveraray
|
3 |
William
Camden |
Coins of Britain; The Celts, Picts and Scots
|
3 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Arbroath and Montrose
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost
|
3 |
John
Wesley |
1771-3: Windsor Park; Wesley as Art Critic; Glasgow and Perth; Preaches to 30,000 People
|
3 |
James
Boswell |
August 27th to 31st, 1773: Forres to Glen Moriston via Inverness
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
September 25th to October 2nd, 1773: South east Skye
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull
|
2 |
William
Camden |
The Division of Britaine
|
2 |
Celia
Fiennes |
1698 Tour: Carlisle to Newcastle
|
2 |
Samuel
Johnson |
South to Glasgow and Auchinleck
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1744-5: First Methodist Conference; Pressgangs and Mobs
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery
|
2 |
John
Wesley |
1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
September 18-23: The Borders and back to Cheshire
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Appendix IV: Of the Murder of a Laird of Innes
|
2 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Appendix VIII: Itinerary
|
2 |
James
Boswell |
September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker
|
1 |
James
Boswell |
October 17th to 22nd, 1773: Inchkenneth and Iona
|
1 |
James
Boswell |
October 27th to November 7th, 1773: Through Glasgow to Ayrshire
|
1 |
William
Camden |
Romans in Britaine (2)
|
1 |
Charles
Wesley |
1745: London, Bristol and South Wales
|
1 |
Daniel
Defoe |
Letter 8, Part 1: The Trent Valley
|
1 |
Robert
Gammage |
Working and Campaigning in Chelmsford in 1841-2
|
1 |
Robert
Gammage |
To Scotland in 1843
|
1 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Inch Keith and St. Andrews
|
1 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Aberdeen
|
1 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Glen Shiel and Glen Elg
|
1 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Arrival on Skye; Armadale
|
1 |
Samuel
Johnson |
Ulva and Inch Kenneth
|
1 |
John
Wesley |
1757-9: "I do Indeed Live by Preaching"; Advice to Travelers; French Prisoners
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
Tyringham to Woburn
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
August 1-6: Loch Tay to Deeside
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
August 14-18: Inverness and the Black Isle
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
August 18-29: Sutherland and Caithness
|
1 |
Thomas
Pennant |
August 30-September 5: The Great Glen and Argyll
|
1 |