I met up with Andrew Steiner, PhD Candidate in the Geology Department at UBC. Since he is originally from Scotland, and has done a fair amount on geological features in the Hebrides, he is the perfect addition to understand Mendelssohn’s Hebrides!

Find links to some of the pictures we discuss below — note the feature of steamboats in both Mendelssohn’s drawing as well as Turner’s painting — state of the art tourism technology!
https://interactive.britishart.yale.edu/critique-of-reason/360/staffa-fingals-cave