Johnson's long premeditated journey to Scotland was made in 1773 when he was 64 years of age. As Boswell summarises it, "He came by the way of Berwick upon Tweed to Edinburgh, where he remained a few days, and then went by St. Andrews, Aberdeen, Inverness, and Fort Augustus, to the Hebrides, to visit which was the principal object he had in view. He visited the isles of Sky, Rasay, Col, Mull, Inchkenneth, and Icolmkill" (Life of Samuel Johnson, Everyman, 1973, I, p. 491).