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Routeways Our motorcar minds tend to condition our perception of Scotregard the region not as " the bottom left hand corner of mainland; but throughout the period covered by this atlas, much of land Scotland", but rather as a peninsula integral to a maritime the country was not an easy land for wheels. Seaways, river province. This is shown in the first map where the view is and loch routes \yere of major significance. This was so not towards the West. only to groups whom we stereotype as seafarers, such as the Equally, the Firth of Forth is perhaps better regarded Vikings or those of the lordship of the Isles. as' a conduit leading to the North Sea and indeed Baltic for the Thus, for example, in interpreting much of the settlemedieval traders of the Fife and Lothian ports, rather than as a ment pattern and history of Galloway, it can be profitable to local barrier within central Scotland. Ganoway nn context \ \ jJ\!O"th ..---- ,.,--Sea .............. \ / /" .... " lAM Firtlln oft' Forth and the North Sea 4

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