THE AGE OF THE EARTH AND OTHER GEOLOGICAL STUDIES

By ISABELLA ROBINSON

CONTENTS 1 INTRODUCTION: TOURISM, AESTHETICS AND THE DISCOVERY OF SCOTLAND 2 NATURAL HISTORY, TRAVEL AND EARLY EXPLORATIONS OF SCOTLAND’S NATURAL HISTORY 3 JOHN WALKER’S ‘REPORT ON THE HEBRIDES’ (1764–1771) 4 A COUNTRY TORN AND CONVULSED: PIONEERING GEOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS IN THOMAS PENNANT’S TOURS OF SCOTLAND (1769, 1772) 5 ASTONISHING PRODUCTIONS OF VOLCANIC COMBUSTION: BARTHÉLEMY FAUJAS DE SAINT-FOND’S TRAVELS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND THE HEBRIDES (1784, 1799) 6 JAMES HUTTON’S GEOLOGICAL TOURS OF SCOTLAND (1764–1788) 7 NATURAL HISTORY AMONG THE MOUNTAINS OF A WILD COUNTRY: ROBERT JAMESON ON ARRAN, 1797 AND 8 THE END OF ROMANTIC GEOLOGY IN SCOTLAND? JOHN MACCULLOCH’S A DESCRIPTION OF THE WESTERN ISLANDS OF SCOTLAND (1819)