Pointing to a field far from seashore, loch or river, he said that a ship would anchor there one day. The canal did not come near the spot, so folk decided this prophecy must be incorrect until one day in the 1930s an Airship did indeed tie up there. The most impressive of his prophecies concerned the doom of the Mackenzies of Seaforth. We are still waiting for these 1. Optimists hope this refers to the North Sea Oil Fields and the big business it has brought to Aberdeen.
Pessimists fear it predicts Nuclear War.
This seems to imply that the Scottish Capital City will someday become more important than the British Capital of London.