The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ir village and Stair House,now neglected and forlorn, whence the noble and gifted familv of Dalr^-mple havetaken their title; past Dalmore and Enterkin, that early seat of the Cunninghames,and Annbank, where the scene of Burnss Fete Champetre is now obscm-ed bycolliery smoke; by Gadsgirth also, whose mansion, standing on a coign of thesouthern bank, was long- the home of the old family of Chalmers; and on to wherethe river is joined by the Coyle, whose winding vale, were we to trace it up,wo
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ir village and Stair House,now neglected and forlorn, whence the noble and gifted familv of Dalr^-mple havetaken their title; past Dalmore and Enterkin, that early seat of the Cunninghames,and Annbank, where the scene of Burnss Fete Champetre is now obscm-ed bycolliery smoke; by Gadsgirth also, whose mansion, standing on a coign of thesouthern bank, was long- the home of the old family of Chalmers; and on to wherethe river is joined by the Coyle, whose winding vale, were we to trace it up,woiJd lead us to the bold cliffs and cascades of Sun drum, to Coylton and the KingsSteps, which, too, preserve traditions of Coil, king of the Britons, said to havebeen defeated on the neighbouring uplands by Fergus, king of the Picts andScots; and so to the Craigs of Kyle, where, among the bonnie blooming heather,one can look down upon the Doon. The same scenery—the alternation of pool and shallow, of wood and crag andmeadow—continues along the great double curve which the main stream makes past. 1! / The Ave.] AUCHENCRUIVE. 337 the grounds of AuclHiicniivo. Eacli -\viel and lidliii lias its own name andstory; and the woods of Auclienevuive, of Laighm, and of Craigic are full of legendsof William Wallace, who here st>ught shelter when hiding from his English foes, or meditating his attack ou the Barns of Ayr. Auchencruive, sonamed from the natm-al trap dykewhich here crosses the river, has aWallace - Seat and Cave. Tt is
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