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From: Crawford MacKeand <>
Subject: Re: Iceland emigration to North America via Scotland!!
Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 22:40:12 -0400 (EDT)
In-Reply-To: <v04011745b717b3d8ff9d@[212.30.197.170]>

Hi Muff,
My recollection is that Leith (which is the port for Edinburgh)
has for an age been the sailing port for the Faeroes and Iceland. For one
thing, you get a more protected passage than heading out through the North
Atlantic from Glasgow, and some decent harbors to run to in a bad storm,
and for another, you have a decent freight opportunity in Aberdeen and
some plus passengers in Thorshavn. Also Leith was a developed port a long
time before Glasgow, if I remember right from the history books.

Crawford.

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