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MAPPING SCOTLAND IN THE 18TH CENTURY
PUTTING CAPE WRATH BACK ON THE MAP
For centuries, map-makers got the shape of Scotland’s northern coast wrong, cutting off the entire north-western tip. It was left to the surveying efforts of a little-known 18th-century minister to reveal the coastline’s true form. Alastair Mitchell tells the remarkable tale
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