Re: "Somewhere (I'll look it up later) I read that George Scroggie of Aberdeenshire was a farmer who probably never saw the ocean."

I looked up Tarwathie, Tarawathie, and Crimond in my atlas. Tarwathie isn't there, but Crimond is on the eastern Scottish coast, in Aberdeenshire as promised, less than ten miles from the sea. Even if George Scroggie was a farmer, he must have seen the ocean many times.