My father when a young man went to the far north-to Caithness, Sutherland, Skye, and the islands-and bought large droves of Highland cattle and brought them home.
"Cattle and Cattle-breeders"
William M'Combie
What would she have felt, that strong, calm lady, growing old far off in the Isle of Skye, had she been able to see what Bonstetten saw; had she heard the Count and Countess of Albany laughing, the one with the laughter of an old sot, the other with the laughter of a giddy child, over the adventures of that heroic Prince Charlie whose memory was safe in her heart as the sheets he had slept in were safe in her closet, waiting to be her grave-clothes?
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In the Outer Hebrides, as in the Aranmore Islands off West Ireland, influences are at work on the Celtic imagination quite different from those in Skye and its neighbouring islands.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz