Corrour Bothy its local dialect— suggest an alternative origin for the place name as a shelter for the currour or forester's assistant. In the author writes that the people of mar used Coirie Odhar as a summer shieling for their cattle in the early part of the nineteenth century, but in the later part "the area was kept clear for deer". The original bothy was built in 1877 to house a deer watcher during the summer, and it housed several including Charles Robertson, John Macintosh, and Frank Scott before the estate stopped using the bothy in the 1920s. In the author gives
A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland HTML versions. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland (1775) is a travel narrative by Samuel Johnson about an eighty-three-day journey through Scotland, in particular the islands of the Hebrides, in the late summer and autumn of 1773. The sixty-three-year-old Johnson was accompanied by his thirty-two-year-old friend of many years James Boswell, who was also keeping a record of the trip, published in 1785 as "A Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides". The two narratives are often published as a single volume, which is beneficial for comparing two perspectives of