1. Samuel Johnson, A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland in 1773 (London, 1870), p. 32.
2. Andrew Simmons, ed., Burt’s Letters from the North of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1998 edn), p. 74.
3. Cited in T. C. Smout, ‘Tours in the Scottish Highlands from the Eighteenth to the Twentieth Centuries’, Northern Scotland, vol. 5, 1983, p. 120.
4. Robert A. Dodgshon, From Chiefs to Landlords (Edinburgh, 1998), p. 21.
5. Malcolm Gray, The Highland Economy 1750–1850 (Edinburgh, 1957), pp. 23–4.
6. OSA, III, p. 90.
7. Burt’s Letters, pp. 191–3.
8. Johnson, Journey to the Western Islands, p. 84.
9. M. Martin, A Description of the Western Isles of Scotland (2nd edn, Edinburgh, 1970), p. 101.
10. Cited in R. A. Dodgshon, ‘West Highland Chiefdoms, 1500–1745’, in R. Mitchison and P. Roebuck, eds., Economy and Society in Scotland and Ireland 1500–1939 (Edinburgh, 1988), p. 13.
11. Cited in R. A. Dodgshon, ‘ “Pretense of blude” and “place of thair dwelling”: The Nature of Scottish Clans, 1500–1745’, in R. A. Houston and I. D. Whyte, eds., Scottish Society, 1500–1800 (Cambridge, 1989), p. 181.