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Agriculture still remains a major industry on Skye, but its future now lies in tourism, an economy initiated by the early attentions of Thomas Pennant, Johnson and Boswell, and Sir Walter Scott who visited Skye on his tour of the northern lighthouses in 1814. At the same time the first ‘mountaineers’ turned their attentions to the Island, concentrating almost exclusively, but with immense success, on the Cuillin. Once the whereabouts of the single greatest range of mountain peaks in Britain became common knowledge, tourism gained a momentum it has never lost.
Geology
Almost certainly it will have been the geology of Skye that has brought you to the Island. Not necessarily the study of geology, but the consequences of the processes of tectonic creation that fashioned the profile and landscape of Skye.
Man has probably inhabited Skye for at least 4000 years, but that is a brief moment of Skye’s history, a history shaped over unimaginable years with many tools, the workings of which were at times cataclysmically violent, at others well-nigh undetectable.