Charles Abbot started on 11 July travelling through the Midlands to Llangollen, Liverpool and Carlisle. In Scotland he visited Hamilton, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Perth, and Inverness, and arrived at Dunrobin on 7 August. After a journey to Ord of Caithness and a tour of Strathbrora he left Dunrobin on 13 August, travelling via Inverness, Inveraray (from where he made visits to Islay and Iona), Stirling, Edinburgh and the Borders, and arrived at Kidbrooke on 1 October. The narrative is followed by notes on various topics (folio 124), a summary of the itinerary, and lists of noteworthy places (folio 148). The entire journal was written in six notebooks which Abbot later had bound in hard covers.