Another oar into this water. It is of course known as the Inner Sound. The Minch is on the other side of Skye, separating us from the heathens in the Western Isles Calum Robertson (no relation, that we've found yet) >From: ScotHeritage@aol.com >To: SCT-INVERNESS-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [SCT-INV-L] Fearns, Raasay >Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:49:01 EDT > >In a message dated 10/10/00 8:46:37 AM Central Daylight Time, >sandra@cabinmha.freeserve.co.uk writes: > ><< Fearns is in the south-east of Raasay, reaced by the road over the hill >from > Inverarish. > The Minch is between the North-west Mainland of Scotland and the Western > Isles, nowhere near Raasay, > > Donald A. Robertson, > Kyleakin, > Isle of Skye > >> >Raasay is east of Potree (Isle of Skye) west of Lochcaron (mainland) North >by >North west of The Kyle of Lochalsh and South East of Gairloch. If the water >between Gairloch, (Western Ross and the Isle of Skye is not a part of the >Minch then what is it called. I had always heard it refered to as the >Minch >when the boats left either Gairloch or Melveig. >Dave > _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.