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In 1773, Samuel Johnson toured the Hebrides, often staying with the local lord or other high status official. Was this kind of hospitality common for travelers around this time and place? How "high class" would you have to have been to get this treatment?

by /u/Obligatory-Reference in /r/AskHistorians

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