Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Coll. You may be able to find further references to Coll in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place	Type of entry	Source
Coll	island	Bartholomew

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Coll within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller	Section	No. of Refs.
Samuel Johnson	Coll	28
James Boswell	October 3rd to 8th, 1773: Coll	22
Samuel Johnson	Reasons for poverty and emigration	9
James Boswell	October 9th to 16th, 1773: Mull	4
James Boswell	September 21st to 24th, 1773: Dunvegan to Talisker	2
George Head	The Caledonian Canal	2
Samuel Johnson	Ostig, and Skye in general	2
Samuel Johnson	The economy of the islands	2
James Boswell	August 21st to 23rd, 1773: Montrose to Aberdeen	1
James Boswell	September 14th to 20th, 1773: Dunvegan, Skye	1
James Boswell	October 17th to 22nd, 1773: Inchkenneth and Iona	1
George Head	Visiting Mull	1
Samuel Johnson	Political changes	1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place	Mentioned in Travel Writing	Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer
Tiree	7	3
Cairn Na Burgh Beg	0	2
Kilninian	0	2
Gometra	0	2
Staffa	12	2
Ulva	0	2
Kilchoan	0	2
Tobermory	17	2
Muck	0	2
Inchkenneth	0	2
Iona	11	2
Ardnamurchan	0	2
Aros	0	2
Salen	0	2
Eigg	0	2
Mull	7	3
Bunessan	0	3
Kilfinichen	0	2
Small Isles	0	2
Kilvickeon	0	1