The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . the tree of goodlv stem and s])read of lind),one has to <»)»serve that it is not by any means upon the largest of thebranches that iiinnemorial has fixed the name of tiie Clyde. According-to the popular saving— Twewl, Aiiiiaii, aiiut tiiis descrijilion of the source ap])li(^s only to the Clydes l^urn, the main line of the Caledonian Kailway on its wav by HeatfockSinnmit into .nan(lale. Wiicn the Clydes Hum has run it-; halt-do/.cn :md met, nl»ove Klvan
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . the tree of goodlv stem and s])read of lind),one has to <»)»serve that it is not by any means upon the largest of thebranches that iiinnemorial has fixed the name of tiie Clyde. According-to the popular saving— Twewl, Aiiiiaii, aiiut tiiis descrijilion of the source ap])li(^s only to the Clydes l^urn, the main line of the Caledonian Kailway on its wav by HeatfockSinnmit into .nan(lale. Wiicn the Clydes Hum has run it-; halt-do/.cn :md met, nl»ove Klvanfoot. the I >aer Water, < ling from a height of over ..(KM) feet, on the slopes of the (Jaiia and ilarnciaig Hills. th<- latter has alreatU llowed The Clviie.] .1 ,^^^4 OF 11 ILLS. :i43 a more than twirc the leiinth ; iiiul tlun-e are other tiil)utarios—tlio Powtrailtiiul tlic Elvaii, for instance, ih-ainini;- the eastern slopes of the wihl liills, vemcdwith lead-ore, that on tlie other side connnand the valley of the Nitli—which. lir THE SOURCES OF THE CLVUE. might successfully compete, as the source of the Cl}de, with the modest littlerunlet, issuing from the shoulder of Clydes Law, that overlooks Tweeds Well. A sea of hills, green or heather clad, is tlie whole of this region ofClydesdale, forming the tlistricts of Crawford, Crawfordjohn, and adjoiningparishes. It is rolled into great weaves—not, however, as Sir Archibald Geikieremarks, steep and im2)ending like those that darken the Highland glens, but 344 IlIVEliS UF GliEAT lUUTALW [The Clyde. nuimlod and smooth like tlic swell of tlie ocean subsiding after a storm. Oneither hand .>itreams imumierable have hollowed out their channels—hopes and jnlls and eleuchs—in the heart of the hills; and the clear or brownwaters tumble merrilv over rock and shingle, or skirt the etlges of peat-moss orj)asture land on their wav to reinforce the Clyde. Bare and l)]eak arc theselandscapes, as a rule
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