17/23 Another very obvious improvement is to join the Forth and the Clyde, so as to connect Leith with the Irish and American routes. You see the blue line ?" "Quite so." "And we will have a little cutting here. It will run from Uleaborg to Kem, and will connect the White Sea with the Gulf of Bothnia. We must not allow our sympathies to be insular, must we? We will try and give the good people of Archangel a better outlet for their furs and their tallow." "But it will freeze." "For six months in the year. |