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Whisky, Kilts, and the Loch Ness Monster

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by William W. Starr

Blair Castle

  “Blind Hary”

  “Bonnie Prince Charlie”

  Book of Kells

  “Book of Company at Auchinleck”

  Boswell, David

  Boswell, Elizabeth

  Boswell, Euphemia

  Boswell, James; and duke of Argyll; attitude toward Jacobite cause; biographical sketch; death of; family; feelings toward Jacobites; and Sir Alexander Macdonald; and Mrs. Mackinnon; meeting Johnson; relationship with father; Scots opinion of; and Hester Thrale; travel itinerary

  Boswell, Margaret

  Boswell, Veronica

  Boswell Mausoleum

  Boswell Museum

  Boswell Park

  Boswell: The Applause of the Jury, 1782–1785 (Lustig & Pottle)

  Bothwell, earl of

  Bower, Walter

  Boyd’s Inn

  Bradley, Martha

  Brady, Frank

  Braveheart

  Braveheart

  Braveheart Museum

  Bray, Elizabeth

  British Housewife, The (Bradley)

  Brodie, Alexander

  Brodie Castle

  Brodie Clan

  Brora

  Bruce, Robert the

  Bryson, Bill

  Bullers of Buchan

  Bur, Bishop of Moray

  “Burk, Betty”

  Burke, Edmund

  Burnett, James. See Monboddo, Lord

  Burnett Clan

  Burns, Robert

  Burt, Edmund

  Butt of Lewis

  Byrds, the

  Cairndow

  Caledonia

  Caledonian MacBrayne. See CalMac

  Callanish Standing Stones

  CalMac

  Calum’s Road (Hutchinson)

  Camelot

  Campbell, Anne

  Campbell, Glen

  Campbell, Ian

  Campbell Clan

  Canongate

  castles. See also individual castles

  Caterbury Cathedral

  Catholicism

  Cawdor

  Cawdor Castle

  Cecil, William

  Chapel Royal

  Charles I, king of England

  Charles II, king of Scotland

  Christian I, king of Norwary and Denmark

  Christianity

  Church of England

  Church of Scotland

  clans. See also individual clans

  Clava Cairn

  Clearances

  Cleese, John

  Club, the

  Clyde Canal

  Coca-Cola

  Coll

  Columba

  Connery, Sir Sean

  Coriechatachan

  Costume of the Clans, The

  Cosway, Maria

  Craignure

  Crathes Castle

  crofting

  Cromwell, Oliver

  Cuil Bay

  Cullen

  Culloden

  Culloden, battle at

  Cumberland, duke of

  Cunningham, Alastair

  Daft Days

  Dalblair. See Boswell, James

  Dalrymple, Lady

  Dalrymple, Sir John

  Darnley, Lord

  David (Raasay)

  Davies, Maxwell. See Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell

  Davies, Sir Peter Maxwell

  Debra (Skye)

  Declaration of Arbroath

  Defoe, Daniel

  Delaney, Frank

  Derby

  Description of the Western Islands of Scotland, A (Martin)

  Dictionary of the English Language (Johnson)

  Donaldson, Gordon

  Donan

  Douglas Cause

  Doune Castle

  Dracula (Stoker)

  Dream, The (Smith)

  Drum Castle

  Drummossie Moor

  Drumnadrochit

  Duart Castle

  Duffus Castle

  Dumbarton Castle

  Dun, Rev.

  Dun Caan

  Duncan, king of Scotland

  Duncansby Head

  Dundee

  Dundee, Viscount of

  Dunkeld

  Dunnottar Castle (Cunningham)

  Dunnottar Castle

  Dunrobin Castle

  Dunsinane Hill

  Dunvegan Castle

  Durness

  East Merkle

  Edinburgh

  Edinburgh Castle

  Edinburgh University

  Edward I, king of England

  Edward II, king of England

  Edwin, king of Northumberland

  Eglinton, countess of

  Eigg

  Eilean a’ Cheo. See Skye

  Eilean Donan Castle

  Eilean Tighe

  Elder, John

  Elgin

  Elgin Cathedral

  Elizabeth I, queen of England

  Elizabeth II, queen of England

  Elizabeth (“Mum”), queen consort of King George VI and mother of Queen Elizabeth II

  Faintheart (Jennings)

  Falkirk; battle of

  Falkirk Wheel

  “Farewell to Stromness” (Davies)

  Faulkner, William

  Ferguson, Robert

  Fife

  Final Exit (Rankin)

  Fingal

  Fingal’s Cave

  “Fingal’s Cave” (Mendelssohn)

  Fionnphort

  Firth of Lorn

  Firth of Clyde

  Fisher, Ian

  Five Sisters

  Fladda

  Flodden, battle of

  Forbes, Sir Robert

  Fort Augustus

  Fort George

  Fort William

  Forth Canal

  Fraser, Mrs. (Highlands)

  Gaelic

  Gaelic Society of Inverness

  Gentleman’s Magazine

  George, king of England

  George (member of the Iona Community)

  George Hotel

  George III, king of England

  George IV, king of England

  German High Seas Fleet

  Gibbon, Lewis

  Gibson, Mel

  Gill’s Bay

  Giovanni (hotel chef in Raasay)

  Glamis Castle

  Glasgow

  Glasgow Academy

  Glencoe

  Glencoe massacre

  Glenelg

  Glenfiddich

  Glenfinnian

  Glorious Rebellion

  Goldsmith, Oliver

  Graham, George

  Graham, John

  Grampian Mountains

  Grant, James

  Grant Clan

  Great Hall

  Great Todday

  Grebes

  Greg (Kirkwall)

  Guide to Ullapool

  haggis

  Hamilton, duchess of

  Hamlet (Shakespeare)

  Harold (Spynie Palace)

  Harris

  Harris Tweed Act

  Harris Tweed (cloth)

  Hebridean Islands. See also individual islands

  Hebridean Journey, A (Stucley)

  Hebrideans

  “Hebrides Overture.” See “Fingal’s Cave” (Mendelssohn)

  Highland Clearances

  Highland Clearances, The (Richards)

  Highland Council

  Highland Jaunt, The (McLaren)

  Highland Journals (Victoria)

  Highland line

  Highland Park Distillery

  Highland Society of Edinburgh

  Highlander (film)

  Highlanders

  Highlands. See also individual islands

  Hill, G. B.

  HMS Vanguard

  Holyroodhouse Palace

  “Honours of Scotland The”

  Hume, David

  Humphry Clinker (Smollett)

  Huntly Castle

  Hutchinson, Roger

  Icol
mkill. See Iona

  Idle, Eric

  Idler

  In the Footsteps of Johnson (Hill)

  In the Footsteps of Johnson and Boswell (Shenker)

  InchKenneth

  Inner Hebrides. See also individual islands

  Inner Islands. See Inner Hebrides

  Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, The (Trevor-Roper)

  Inveraray

  Inveraray Castle

  Inverewe Gardens

  Inverness

  Inverness Castle

  Iona

  Iona Abbey

  Iona Abbey and Nunnery (Richie & Fisher)

  Iona Community

  Irn-Bru

  Irvine, William de

  Isle of Raasay Hotel

  Isles of the North (Mitchell)

  Jacobite Risings

  Jacobites

  James, prince of Scotland

  James, the “Old Pretender”

  James I, king of England (and James VI, king of Scotland)

  James II, king of England (and James VII, king of Scotland)

  James III, king of Scotland

  James IV, king of Scotland

  James V, king of Scotland

  James’s Court

  Jefferson, Thomas

  Jennings, Charles

  Jim (Pitlochry)

  John (Fionnphort)

  John, bishop of Winchester

  John O’Groats

  John XXII (pope)

  Johnson, Samuel; and duke of Argyll; attitude toward Jacobite cause; biographical sketch; and Edmund Burke; and David Hume; death of; feelings toward Kenneth Macaulay; feelings toward Scotland; and Sir Alexander Macdonald; and James Macpherson; meeting Boswell; opinion of Dundee; relationship with Lord Monboddo; Scots opinion of; and Hester Thrale; travel itinerary; writings of

  Johnstone, Chevalier de

  Jonson, Ben

  Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides (Boswell)

  Journey to the Western Isles (Macdonald)

  Journey to the Western Island of Scotland, A (Johnson)

  Jute

  “Juteopolis.” See Dundee

  kangaroo

  Keats, John

  Kilchurn Castle

  Killiecrankie

  kilt

  Kingsburgh

  Kingsmill, Hugh

  Kirk of Saint Giles

  Kirkwall

  Kirriemuir

  Knights of the Round Table

  Knots and Crosses (Rankin)

  Knox, John

  Knox, Thomas

  Kubrick, Stanley

  Lanark

  Landmark Trust of Scotland

  Launcelot (as character in film)

  Leal, Kenneth

  Leanach Cottage

  Lennon, John

  Lesley (Kirkwall)

  Letters from Edinburgh, 1774–1775 (Topham)

  Lever, William. See Leverhulme, Lord

  Lever Brothers

  Leverburgh

  Leverhulme, Lord

  Lewis

  Lewis Loom Centre

  Lews Castle

  Life of Columba (Adoman)

  Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, The (Boswell)

  “Lion, the.” See William I, king of Scotland

  Lismore

  Litchfield

  Little Todday

  Lives of the Poets (Johnson)

  Loch Awe

  Loch Creran

  Loch Croispol Bookshop and Restaurant

  Loch Duich

  Loch Ewe

  Loch Fyne

  Loch Linhe

  Loch Lomond

  Loch Ness Visitor Centres

  Loch Ness Monster Visitor Centre

  Loch Ness Monster

  Loch Ness

  Loch Ness 2000 Exhibition

  Loch Ruthven

  Loch Shiel

  Loch Snizort

  Lochmoddy

  London Club

  “Lord of the Isles, The”

  Lowlands

  Lustig, Irma

  Macaulay, Kenneth

  MacBean, Donald

  Macbeth

  Macbeth (Shakespeare)

  Macdonald, Alasdair MacIain

  Macdonald, Allan

  Macdonald, Finlay

  Macdonald, Flora

  Macdonald, Sir Alexander

  MacDonald, Coll

  Macdonald Clan

  MacFisheries

  MacGregor, Alasdair Alpin

  MacGregor Clan

  Mackay, Hugh

  Mackenzie, Compton

  Mackenzie, Mr. (Stornoway)

  Mackenzie, Osgood

  Mackenzie, Sir George

  Mackenzie, W. C.

  Mackenzies Clan

  Mackinnon, Mrs. (Skye)

  Maclean, Sir Allan

  Maclean Clan

  MacLeod, Calum

  MacLeod, John

  MacLeod, Lady

  MacLeod, Malcolm

  MacLeod Clan

  MacNicol, Donald

  Macpherson, James

  Macqueen, Donald

  Maeshowe

  Magnus

  Malcolm II, king of Scotland

  Malcolm IV, king of Scotland

  Malone, Edmond

  Manchester

  Mansfield, lord chief justice of England

  Margaret, princess of England

  Margaret of Denmark

  Martin (Durness)

  Martin, Martin

  Martin, Peter

  Mary, Queen of Scots

  Matheson, Sir James

  Maureen (Auchinleck Estate)

  McGonagall, William

  McLaren, Moray

  McNabs Inn

  Mendelssohn, Felix

  Menzies Castle

  Menzies Clan

  Merkle

  Midden

  midges

  Millennium Link Project

  Minch

  Miralles, Enric

  Mitchell, Ian

  Monboddo, Lord

  Montrose

  Montrose, duke of

  Monty Python and the Holy Grail

  Moray Firth

  Morrison, Allan

  Muck

  Muir, Edwin

  Mull

  Munro, Donald

  Munro, Neil

  Murray, Lord George

  Murray, Peter

  National Health Service

  National Trust for Scotland

  NATO

  Neeson, Liam

  Neilston

  Nelson, Ricky

  Nessie. See Loch Ness Monster

  New Town

  New York Times

  Nicolson, Adam

  Ninian

  North Sea

  Northlink

  Norway

  Notes from a Small Island (Bryson)

  “numpty”

  nunnery

  Oban

  Ogden, Samuel

  “Old Pretender.” See James, the “Old Pretender”

  Old Town

  Orcadians

  Orkney Islands

  Orkney Islands Council

  “Orkney Wedding with Sunrise, An”

  Ossian

  Outer Hebrides. See also individual islands

  Parliament

  Pass of Killiecrankie

  Paufer, Thomas

  Pearson, Hesketh

  Pennant, Thomas

  Peter Pan (Barrie)

  Peterhead

  Philip (Skye)

  Pickett, George

  Pictish

  Pitlochry

  Place of Holyroodhouse

  Plant, Marjorie

  Polly: The True Story behind Whisky Galore (Hutchinson)

  Portnacroish

  Portree

  Potter, Beatrix

  Pottle, Frederick A.

  Prince Charles. See “Bonnie Prince Charlie”

  Princes Street

  Pringle, John

  Public Advertiser

  Raasay

  Raasay Forest
r />   Raasay House

  “Raasay Raiders”

  Railroad Hotel

  Rambler

  Rankin, Ian

  Rasselas (Johnson)

  Red Lion Inn

  Remarks on Dr. Samuel Johnson’s Journey to the Hebrides (MacNicol)

  Reynolds, Sir Joshua

  Rhum

  Richards, Eric

  Richie, Anna

  River Avon

  River Clyde

  River Forth

  River Garry

  River Lossie

  River Nairn

  River Ness

  River Tay

  River Teith

  River Tummel

  Rizzio, David

  Rob Roy (film)

  Rob Roy (Scott)

  Robert II, king of Scotland

  Robert the Bruce. See Bruce, Robert the

  “Rock Lomond”

  Rogers, Pat

  Rona

  Rough Guide to Scotland, The

  Roy, Rob

  Royal and Ancient Golf Club

  Royal Bank of Scotland

  Royal Burgh of Inveraray. See Inveraray

  Royal Hotel

  Royal Mile

  Royal Navy

  Royal Oak

  Russell, Clare Macpherson-Grant

  Russell, Oliver

  Sadler, John

  Saint Andrews Castle

  Saint Andrews Cathedral

  Saint Andrews University

  Saint Andrews

  Saint Columba. See Columba

  Saint Columbus. See Columba

  Saint Conan’s Kirk

  Saint Giles Cathedral

  St. James’s Chronicles

  Saint Magnus Cathedral

  Saint Magnus Festival

  Salmond, Alex

  Saracen Inn

  Scalpay

  Scapa Flow

  Sconser

  “Scotch Symphony”

  Scotichronicon (Bower)

  Scotland: culinary practices; drinking in; education in; emigration from; ferry service in; medicinal drinks; nuclear power plant; religion in; Stone Age sites; tourism in; war with England weather in

  Scott, Sir Walter

  Scott, William

  Scottish Journey (Muir)

  Scottish Life

  Scottish National Party (SNP)

  Scottish National Opera

  Scottish Parliament

  Scottish Reformation

  Scrabster, Port of

  Sea Room (Nicolson)

  Seasons on Harris (Yeadon)

  Shakespeare, William

  Shenker, Israel

  Shetland Islands

  Shiant Islands

  shipwrecks

  Skaill House

  Skara Brae

  Skye

  Skye Bridge

  Slains Castle

  Smith, Adam

  Smith, Ian Crichton

  Smollett, Tobias

  SNP. See Scottish National Party

  “Solitary Reaper, The” (Wordsworth)

  Sound of Eriskay

  Sound of Harris

  Sound of Iona

  Sound of Mull

  Sound of Raasay

  Spey Valley

  Speyside

  Spynie Palace

  SS Politican

  Staffa. See Fingal’s Cave

  Stevenson, Robert Louis

  Stewart, Alexander (“Wolf of Badenoc”)

  Stewart, Charles Edward. See “Bonnie Prince Charlie”

  Stewart Clan

  Stirling

  Stirling Bridge

  Stirling Bridge, battle of

  Stirling Castle Rock

  Stirling Castle

  Stoker, Bram

  Stone Age

  Stonehenge

  Stornoway

  Stromness, Port of

 

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