The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Photo: II. •/. Mil. THE ANXAX NEAR ANNAS TOWN (jU. olb). RIVERS OF THE SOLWAY FIRTH. The Firth—A Swift Tide. The Eden : The Eamont—Eden Hall—Armathwaite—John Skelton—Wetheral and CorhyCastle—The Caldew and the Petteril—Greystoke Castle—Carlisle, its Eomance and History—Seri-a Factum—Kin-mont Willie and hauld Buccleueh —Executions of Jacobites—The Carlisle of To-day. The Sakk : Gretna LiDDEL—Hermitage AVater and Castle. The Esk : The Tarras—Gilnockie Tower—Carlenrig and JohnnieAiTii
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Photo: II. •/. Mil. THE ANXAX NEAR ANNAS TOWN (jU. olb). RIVERS OF THE SOLWAY FIRTH. The Firth—A Swift Tide. The Eden : The Eamont—Eden Hall—Armathwaite—John Skelton—Wetheral and CorhyCastle—The Caldew and the Petteril—Greystoke Castle—Carlisle, its Eomance and History—Seri-a Factum—Kin-mont Willie and hauld Buccleueh —Executions of Jacobites—The Carlisle of To-day. The Sakk : Gretna LiDDEL—Hermitage AVater and Castle. The Esk : The Tarras—Gilnockie Tower—Carlenrig and JohnnieAiTiistrong—Young Lochinvar—Ivirtle Water and its Tragic Story. The Annan : The Land of the Bruces—ThomasCarlyle. The Xith : Dumfries—Burnss Grave—Robert Bruce and the Bed Cumj-n—Drumlanrig and CaerlaverockCastles—The Caim and its Associations—The Isew Abbey Pow and Sweetheart Abbey. The Dee: DouglasTongueland—Threave Castle. The Ckee : Newton Stewart—The Cruives of Cree. The Bladenoch : The AVig-town Mart^ T is some years since we last saw the Sulway Firth, but we / well remember the long stretch of naked sand so quickly covered by the galloping tide, and the giant shape of Criffcll guarding the whole expanse of water from out AvhicJi it appeared to rise, so that the prophecy ascribed to Thomas the Ehymer, In the evil day coming safety shall nowhere be fomid except atween Criffell and the sea, seemed in truth a hard saying. Our abode Avas a solitary liouse on the northern bank, and, save for the wild ebb and flow of the Avaters, all was peace. On the right Avas the open sea, not much ploughed of passing keel : straight across was the indented Cumberland shore, Avell tended and fertde, but not more 302 ETVEliS OF an EAT BRITAIN. [SoLWAY Firth. SO than the inland fi-nm our cottaye. lluw |)lainly it comes back as one takes up the pen I Rank-sweliing Annan, Lid with curled streams,Tlie Esks, tlie Solway where they lose their names
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