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When did James Boswell and Samuel Johnson travel through the Hebrides?

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James Boswell and Samuel Johnson traveled through the Hebrides in 1773.123

The trip lasted for three months, providing Boswell with 101 consecutive days in the company of Johnson. Both men later published accounts of their experiences: Johnson wrote A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland, which was published in 1775, while Boswell’s record, The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides, with Samuel Johnson, LL.D., was published in 1785.2413