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Travel journals.

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'Journal of the tour round the Western Islands of Scotland 1788', a quarto notebook and various unbound pages forming together an incomplete journal, in the hand of John, 1st Marquess of Bute (then Lord Mountstuart).

 Item
Identifier: MS.9587
Scope and Contents The journal comprises chiefly the account of a voyage, August 1788, in the revenue cutter ‘Royal George’ from Mountstuart, Isle of Bute, to Islay (folio 2), Mull and Lismore (folios 5-12), Staffa and Iona (folios 26-27), North Uist and Lewis (folios 28-30), Skye and Raasay (folios 30-34), Canna (folios 34-41), and Oban and Kerrera (folio 42). There is also a fragment of journal, 12-19 October, relating to a later cruise in Loch Fyne (folio 43). Also included are...
Dates: 1788.