The Clyde from its source to the sea, its development as a navigable river, the rise and progress of marine engineering and shipbuilding on its banks, and the leading historical, geological, and meteorological features of the Clyde Valley . ea-fight; it was more an attemptat invasion of the country with a large army conveyed insailing vessels, as the Normans had done at Hastingsnearly two hundred years before. The storm burst upon the Norsemen, and King Hacocould only land a part of his forces. These were routedby the Scots. Afterwards some more of the scatteredfleet landed their contingents,
The Clyde from its source to the sea, its development as a navigable river, the rise and progress of marine engineering and shipbuilding on its banks, and the leading historical, geological, and meteorological features of the Clyde Valley . ea-fight; it was more an attemptat invasion of the country with a large army conveyed insailing vessels, as the Normans had done at Hastingsnearly two hundred years before. The storm burst upon the Norsemen, and King Hacocould only land a part of his forces. These were routedby the Scots. Afterwards some more of the scatteredfleet landed their contingents, and the battle was renewedand carried on for a whole day. But the victory was notfor Haco. The forces of nature and the determinationof the Scottish wariiors were too much for the valour ofthe sea-rovers, who were at length finally beaten off totheir ships. With a military courtesy which one wouldhardly have expected in that rude age the Norsemenwere afterwards allowed to bury their dead on the fieldof battle, and many cairns and tumuli still, or until recentyears, stood near Largs as silent memorials of that event-ful day in our history. From the higher slopes we can still view the mainfeatures of the scene as they appeared when—. 58 THE CLYDE: FROM SOURCE TO SEA. The King of Norse in summer tyde, Puffd up with powr and might,Landed in fair Scotland, the isle With mony a hardy tydings to our good Scots king Came as he sat at dine,With noble chiefs in brave array, Diiukiug the blood-red wine. King Haco drew off his shattered forces, and hied himaway back to Norroway; but his proud heart could notbear defeat, and he died at Orkney. Carlyle in his Early Kings of Norioay says: To thisday, on a httle plain to the south of the village, nowtown, of Largs, in Ayrshire, there are sandstone cairnsand monumental heaps, and, until within a century ago,one huge, solitary, upright stone, still mutely testifyingto a battle there,—altogether clearly to this battle ofKing Hakons
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