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Description: | These Highland Journal entries written by Robert Burns have been scanned as 20 two-up 'pages'. The first 5 pages are more like diary entries, with the Journal proper starting on the 6th page. The journey lasted 22 days and covered 600 miles from Edinburgh to Inverness, along the Moray coastline to Peterhead, down to Aberdeen, Perth and back to Edinburgh.
Burns conducted a number of Journeys around parts of Scotland to gather material and an understanding of the country. This Highland Journey was his longest and he was accompanied by his schoolmaster friend William Nichol, travelling in a horse drawn covered carriage.
Page 18. Past Peterhead they stop at Buchan to view the Buller feature and on to Ellen for lunch. Their hope to drop in on Lord Aberdeen 'Threescore' thwarted, they move on to Aberdeen for the Sunday night. The RH sheet now jumps in time to Thursday and describes the journey through Arbroath to Dundee. The intervening days were spent visiting relations in the Kincardinshire area. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 | Publisher: | Burns Monument Trust | Temporal: | 1787-01-01 - 1787-12-31 | Source: | Burns Scotland | Identifier: | Journal of Robert Burns's Tour of the Hi | Go to resource |
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