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Article: Isles of plenty - Scotland's best is on display in the Outer Hebrides.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- July 16, 1998
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And we in dreams behold the Hebrides! - Sir Walter Scott
It wasn't truly a dream, but by the time we had digested what the maps and brochures could offer, and made the decision to explore the wild and beautiful islands off Scotland's west coast, we were deep into a waking reverie of misty rock outcroppings, mad storms that raged for days and black-house villages inhabited by hearty, independent Gaels who had somehow survived invasions by man and nature.
The Hebrides are a large band of islands situated beyond the west coast of Scottish Highlands. The outermost, called the Western Isles, form a remote, 130-mile-long archipelago consisting of Barra, South ...