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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 |
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Coll | island | Bartholomew |
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. |
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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 |
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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 |