Karel Čapek

“ Stone cottages are being overgrown with grass and moss, or are falling into decay, deserted by men.
Once a week the sun shines, and then the mountain peaks are revealed in all the inexpressible tints of blue; and there is blueness which is azure, mother-of-pearl, foggy or indigo, clouded like vapours, a hint or mere reminder of something beautifully blue. All these, and countless other shades of blueness I saw on the blue summits of Cuilin, but there, added to everything else, can be seen the blue sky and the blue bay, and this simply cannot be narrated ”

“ It is beautiful and poverty-stricken; and the native huts have such a prehistoric look, that they might have been built by the late Picts, concerning whom, as is known, there is nothing known. Then the Caledonian Gaels came here, and the Vikings from somewhere in Norway ”