The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . beside his own dour by (.laverhouses dragoons; and on Airds ]\ross. tlu> licatlicrv ridgeI»c-tween Ayr and Lugars mossy fountains, fell Kidiard ( anicroii. the ? Lion ofthe (.(n-eiiant. If desolate, the district is no longer lonely, for coalpits smoke attlie taproots of the Ayr beside the reservoirs that su])j)ly water to \hc mills andfactories of Catrine; and .Muirkirk—the Muir Kirk of Kyle—is a consi(l(Ta])levilla;:e, with iron and chemical works. Throiijrh a cold moorish coimtrv llir A
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . beside his own dour by (.laverhouses dragoons; and on Airds ]\ross. tlu> licatlicrv ridgeI»c-tween Ayr and Lugars mossy fountains, fell Kidiard ( anicroii. the ? Lion ofthe (.(n-eiiant. If desolate, the district is no longer lonely, for coalpits smoke attlie taproots of the Ayr beside the reservoirs that su])j)ly water to \hc mills andfactories of Catrine; and .Muirkirk—the Muir Kirk of Kyle—is a consi(l(Ta])levilla;:e, with iron and chemical works. Throiijrh a cold moorish coimtrv llir A\r wanders to Sorn. a jilace not eas\- toreach even now, when coimnunication has inijtroved so nmch since the times whena .Seitttish king testily dechired that if he wanted to give the devil a job he The Ath.] SOBX. 333 would send liim on a Journey in winter to Sorn. Here tbe face of the valleychanges. It runs betwixt high and wooded l>anks, often rising precii)itouslv in greatred cliffs, patched with lichen and fern, and \^-itli Itirch and oak coppice growing. THE AYK AT ,y. 334 j in their crannies, below which the strong dark current rushes tumultuously over itsshoals or eddies, and sleeps in its deep ^^-iels, or curves majestically round thegreen margins of level holms or haughs. ^Yiel and holm, crag and hangingwood, continue indeed to be characteristics of the valley landscapes from this point-almost to the sea ; and, for its short length of comse, few streams, either of theLowlands or Highlands, or none, can compete with winding Ayr in the richbeauty and romantic interest of its scenery. These featuies are blended in wonderful and pictmesque variety where, at thejunction of the Cleuch burn, Sorn Castle looks down from its rock upon the Ayr,with the parish chm-cli and the village in close proximity. Here we come upon 334 RIVERS OF GREAT RRlTArX. [The Ay«. the footsteps of Pedeii the Covenanter, who was born in this parish, and had hiscave in the dell.
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