The Road to the Isles a daring Commando attack during Operation Roast in the Spring 1945 offensive in Italy, and also at the start of construction on Toronto's first subway line, under Yonge Street, in 1949. The lyrics mention first the hills of the Isle of Skye (whose memory is calling the traveller west); then the successive locations he will pass on the way across the Western Highlands and Inner and Outer Hebrides. The locations mentioned are (in this order): the Cuillin Hills (on the Isle of Skye), Tummel and Loch Rannoch(both in Perthshire), Lochaber (a district in the western Scottish Highlands), Shiel (east of
Hills in the Puget Lowland contain several peaks over high, including the Fidalgo Island high point, Mount Erie. Mason County's Olympic Mountains foothills are called the Satsop Hills. Hills in the Puget Lowland Hills in the Puget Lowland, between the Cascades and the Olympic Mountains, including the entire Seattle metropolitan area, are generally between and rarely more than above sea level. Hills are often notable geologically and for social reasons, such as the seven hills of Seattle. The Puget Lowland lies between the Cascades and Olympic Mountains and once contained a plateau of glacial till not usually more than above sea level. The plateau, "the