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• Two Months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye (London: Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Charles Richard Weld (page images in Germany)
• Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861: to Which Are Prefixed and Added Extracts From the Same Journal Giving an Account of Earlier Visits to Scotland, and Tours in England and Ireland, and Yachting Excursions (New York; Toronto: Harper; W.C. Chewett, 1868), by Queen Victoria, ed. by Arthur Helps (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Observations on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-lands of Scotland, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776 (Printed for T. Cadell and W. Davies, Strand, 1808), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shetland and the Shetlanders; or, The northern circuit. (D. Appleton & co., 1840), by Catherine Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Burt's letters from the north of Scotland; with facsimiles of the original engravings. (W. Paterson, 1876), by Edward Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Highlands of Scotland in 1750; from manuscript 104 in the King's library, British museum (W. Blackwood & sons, 1898) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a tour in the Highlands and Western Islands of Scotland in 1800 (W. Blackwood and sons, 1903), by John Leyden (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Macmillan, 1866), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861 : to which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions (Smith, Elder, 1868), by Queen Victoria and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. (B. Tauchnitz, 1884), by Queen Victoria and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fauna of the North-west Highlands and Skye (D. Douglas, 1904), by J. A. Harvie-Brown and H. A. Macpherson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Angling and art in Scotland: some fishing experiences related and illustrated. (Longmans, Green, 1908), by Ernest Edward Briggs (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Roberts brothers, 1882), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ardenmohr among the hills. A record of scenery and sports in the Highlands of Scotland. (Chapman and Hall, 1876), by Samuel Abbott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland, containing descriptions of their scenery and antiquities, with an account of the political history ... present condition of the people, &c. ... founded on a series of annual journeys between the years 1811 and 1821 ... in letters to Sir Walter Scott, bart. (Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by John Macculloch (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp : in three books ... (Roberts Brothers, 1873), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer tours in Scotland, Glasgow to the Highlands. The royal route with time tables and list of fares ([Glasgow, 1896), by David MacBrayne (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp (Roberts bros., 1875), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a tour in the Highlands made in the year 1787 (Gowans & Gray, 1927), by Robert Burns and James Cameron Ewing (page images at HathiTrust)
• Guide to the Highlands and islands of Scotland including Orkney and Zetland, descriptive of their scenery, statistics, antiquities, and natural history. Containing also directions for visiting the Lowlands of Scotland, with descriptive notices, and maps... (A. and C. Black, 1850), by George Anderson (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. (Smith, Elder and co., 1868), by Queen Victoria and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain, particularly the High-lands of Scotland (Printed for R. Blamire ..., 1789), by William Gilpin, Richmond Blamire, Sawrey Gilpin, and Samuel Alken (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Roberts brothers, 1871), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Excursions through the Highlands and Isles of Scotland in 1835 and 1836. (Simpkin, Marshall, 1837), by Charles Lesingham Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands, from 1862 to 1882. (Smith, Elder, 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Highlands and islands of Scotland painted by W. Smith, jun. (A. & C. Black, 1907), by A. R. Hope Moncrieff and William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A sporting tour through the northern parts of England, and great part of the highlands of Scotland; including remarks on English and Scottish landscape, and general observations on the state of society and manners. Embelished with sixteen engravings, by Messrs. Medland, Pouncy, Landseer, Peltro, etc. from paintings maade on purpose, by Mr. Garrard. (Printed for Vernor and Hood : [etc., etc.], 1804), by Thomas Thornton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from a gentleman in the north of Scotland to his friend in London; ...likewise an account of the Highlands, with the customs and manners of the Highlanders. To which is added, a letter relating to the military ways among the mountains, begun in the year 1726. (Printed for R. Fenner, 1818), by Edward Burt (page images at HathiTrust)
• Official guide : Summer tours in Scotland : Glasgow to the Highlands : "The Royal Route" (via Crinan and Caledonian canals,) with list of sailings and fares (D. MacBrayne, 1881), by David MacBrayne (Firm) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the journal of our life in the highlands, from 1848 to 1861 : to which is prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland and yachting excursions (Smith, Elder, and Co., 1868), by Queen Victoria and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands : from 1862-1882. (Smith, Elder, 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• A critical examination of Dr. Macculloch's work on the Highlands and Western Isles of Scotland. (Printed for Daniel Lizars, 1825), by James Browne (page images at HathiTrust)
• Art rambles in the highlands and islands of Scotland (G. Routledge and sons, 1878), by John T. Reid (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on a tour through the Highlands and part of the Western isles of Scotland; particularly Staffa and Icolmkill: to which are added, a description of the falls of the Clyde: of the country round Moffat, and an analysis of its mineral waters. (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1811), by Thomas Garnett and W. H. Watts (page images at HathiTrust)
• Two months in the Highlands, Orcadia, and Skye. (Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1860), by Charles Richard Weld (page images at HathiTrust)
• Wanderings by the lochs and streams of Assynt; and the north Highlands of Scotland. (J. Blackwood, 1855), by John Hicks (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altavona; fact and fiction from my life in the Highlands (Douglas, 1882), by John Stuart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves from the journal of our life in the Highlands, from 1848 to 1861. To which are prefixed and added extracts from the same journal giving an account of earlier visits to Scotland, and tours in England and Ireland, and yachting excursions. (Harper & Brothers;, 1868), by Queen Victoria and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a tour through the Highlands of Scotland during the summer of MDCCCXXIX. (Norton Hall [Northamptonshire, Eng.], 1830), by Beriah Botfield (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tours to the British mountains, with the descriptive poems of Lowther, and Emont Vale. (Printed for Taylor and Hessey, 1824), by Thomas Wilkinson and Wordsworth Collection (page images at HathiTrust)
• Off the chain: notes and essays from the west Highlands. (Palmer & Howe,[etc.,etc.], 1868), by William Anderson Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Roberts Brothers, 1867), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Roberts, 1883), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altavona; fact and fiction from my life in the Highlands (Chapman and Hall, 1883), by John Stuart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Shetland and the Shetlanders; or, The northern circuit. (W. Whyte and co.;, 1840), by Catherine Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sketch of a tour in the highlands of Scotland; through Perthshire, Argyleshire, and Inverness-shire, in September and October, 1818: with some account of the Caledonian canal. (Printed for Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, 1819), by Larkin (page images at HathiTrust)
• History of Donald the Hammerer. (Printed for Ogle, Duncan, and Co. ... Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh; M. Ogle, Glasgow; and M. Keene, Dublin., 1822), by Edward Burt, Walter Scott, and Robert Jamieson (page images at HathiTrust)
• A painter's camp. (Roberts brothers, 1879), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the Highlands (Smith, Elder & co., 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Summer tours in Scotland, Glasgow to the Highlands : The royal route with time tables and list of fares (A. Sinclair, printer, 1899), by MacBrayne (David) ltd (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Highland note-book; or, Sketches and anecdotes. (Courier Office, 1887), by Robert Carruthers (page images at HathiTrust)
• Altavona : fact and fiction from my life in the Highlands (D. Douglas, 1882), by John Stuart Blackie (page images at HathiTrust)
• Thoughts about art (Macmillan and co., 1862), by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Dalenau o ddyddlyfr ein bywyd yn yr Ucheldiroedd o 1848 hyd 1861. (Morgan a Davies, 1868), by Queen Victoria, John Jones, and Arthur Helps (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands, from 1862-1882. (Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on a tour through the Highlands and part of the western isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill: to which are added, a description of the falls of the Clyde, of the county round Moffat, and an analysis of its mineral waters. (Printed for J. Stockdale, 1811), by Thomas Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty, made in the year 1776, on several parts of Great Britain; particularly the High-lands of Scotland ... (Printed for R. Blamire, 1792), by William Gilpin (page images at HathiTrust)
• A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland, and the Hebrides, to the lakes of Westmoreland, Cumberland, and Lancashire; and to the curiosities in the district of Craven ... Also a description of part of Scotland, particularly of the Highlands, and of the isles of Mull, Ulva, Staffa ... and Scalpa. To which is now added, An account of the new roads in Scotland, and of a beautiful cavern lately discovered in the isle of Skye. (Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for the author, 1810), by Sarah Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Highlands and islands of Scotland (A. & C. Black, 1906), by A. R. Hope Moncrieff, illust. by William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the Higlands, from 1862 to 1882. (Harper & Brothers, 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Tuilleadh Dhuilleag Bho M' Leabhar-Latha, mu chunntas mo bheatha anns a' Ghaidhealtachd, bho 1862 gu 1882. (U. Blackwood, Agus a Mhic, 1886), by Queen Victoria and Mary Mackellar (page images at HathiTrust)
• A companion and useful guide to the beauties of Scotland (Printed for the author, 1799), by Sarah Murray (page images at HathiTrust)
• Walks and scrambles in the Highlands / by Arthur L. Bagley ; with twelve illustrations. (Skeffington & son, 1914), by Arthur L. Bagley (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches and stories of Scotland and the Scotch, and Shetland and the Shetlanders. (Simpkin, 1859), by Catherine Sinclair (page images at HathiTrust)
• Observations on a tour through the Highlands and part of the Western isles of Scotland, particularly Staffa and Icolmkill ... in two volumes ... (T. Cadell, jun., & W. Davies, 1800), by Thomas Garnett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Journal of a summer tour in the Perthshire and Inverness-shire highlands ... (privately printed, 1898), by James Cruikshank Roger (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Highland sportsman and tourist; a comprehensive guide to the Highlands of Scotland. (office of the Highland sportsman, etc., etc., 1884), by Robert Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• More leaves from the journal of a life in the highlands (J. W. Lovell company, 1884), by Queen Victoria (page images at HathiTrust)
• Letters from the Highlands-1848 (Melven Press, 1848), by Robert Somers (page images at HathiTrust)
• The highlands and western isles of Scotland, containing descriptions of their scenery and antiquities, with an account of the political history and ancient manners, and of the origin, language, agriculture, economy, music, present condition of the people, &c. &c. &c. Founded on a series of annual journeys between the years 1811 and 1821, and forming an universal guide to that country, in letters to Sir Walter Scott, bart. (Published by Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1824), by John Macculloch and Walter Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Leaves From the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, From 1848 to 1861, by Queen of Great Britain Victoria, ed. by Arthur Helps (Gutenberg ebook)
• The Highlands and Islands of Scotland, by A. R. Hope Moncrieff, illust. by William Smith (Gutenberg ebook)
• An Account of Dundees rendezvouse, and the French & Irish landing place in Scotland viz., the North and West High-lands, with an account of the clans. (London : Printed for W. Brown ..., 1689) (HTML at EEBO TCP)

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