...Georgian period or earlier still seems remarkable. Dr Johnson had noticed that 'A man of the Hebrides ... as soon as he appears in the morning, swallows a glass of whisky', and that the poorest woman in the meanest turf hut always had whisky tc offer the traveller. In this...

...which even Johnson admits to be far superior to The English one: A man of Hebrides, for of the women's diet I can give no account, as soon as he appears in the morning, swallows a glass of whisky; [...] Not long after the dram, may be expected the breakfast, a meal in which the Scots, whether of...

...of the former, even as he waxed poetic about the latter. A man of the Hebrides, for of the women's diet I can give no account, as soon as he appears...to refuse the morning dram, which they call a skalk . . . If an epicure could remove by a wish, in quest of sensual gratifications, wherever he had supped...