Deil’s Heid
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I found it very peculiar that on older maps this was known as The Pint Stoup as the sailors imagined it looked like a pint tumbler when they were returning to shore. Then it was changed, without a word in any literature to The De’ils Heid. Can we have the first name back please?
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I didn’t know that – interesting, thank you!
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