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The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides
- Form
- Form Travel Writing
- Year
- Year 1785
- Pages
- Pages 400
Autumn 1773, and the most formidable talker in England is up on a Highland pony, sixty-three years old, deaf in one ear and dim of sight, riding into the country he had spent a lifetime mocking from a chair off Fleet Street. Samuel Johnson went north expecting barrenness.
To see Dr Samuel Johnson, the great champion of the English Tories, salute Miss Flora Macdonald in the isle of Sky, was a striking sight
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