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"Nature points out the probability however of the early settlement of Queensferry as the most
fitting place for the lower passage of the Forth. Its Subsequent history for sometime
at least is a chartulary question, but the event that first introduced the
place to the notice of princes is one of the most interesting occurences in Scottish history
or civilization. It brings us indeed to the dawn of our authentic history when the sceptre
of Scotland was swayed within the small town of Dunfermline by that large headed
and wonderful barbarian King Malcom Cean-mohr (Malcolm of the large head) Edgar
Atheling with his mother Agatha and his sisters -- the pious and beautiful Margaret
and devout christina, a nun heirs of the Saxon dynasty -- fleeing from the wrath of the
Norman Conqueror -- encountered in the Firth of Forth by old writers termed the Mare Scoticum
or Scottish Sea one of those frequent Storms so disastrous to the rude navigation of their age and
were cast ashore at a place which still bears the name of Port Edgar a commodious little haven
a quarter of a mile to the westward of South Queensferry which has been improved to serve
as a low water pier in certain states of the tides by the trustees of the Ferry and is further
distinguished as having been the point of George the Fourth's embarkation on quitting
Scotland after the royal visit of 1822."
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