 Boswell and Johnson discussed the subject during their 1773 tour of the Hebrides . Boswell wrote : " After dinner to @-@ day , we talked of the extraordinary fact of Lady Grange ’ s being sent to St Kilda , and confined there for several years , without any means of relief . Dr Johnson said , if M ’ Leod would let it be known that he had such a place for naughty ladies , he might make it a very profitable island . " 
