Clackmannan and Kinross . stretch is mostfamous for its picturesque and wild scenery. Foamingand rushing along at the bottom of a deep and, in places,overhanging gorge, the river leaps in hidden waterfallsinto such gloomy chasms as the Devils Mill, whence thetormented and tossing water passes onward beneath theRumbling Bridge to career wildly in alternate leaps andswirling rushes down the Caldron Liim. With the rixersre-entry into Clackmannanshire, the character of thevalley changes, the steep descent of the narrow gorge issucceeded bv the gentle gradient of the fertile plain, andthe river win
Clackmannan and Kinross . stretch is mostfamous for its picturesque and wild scenery. Foamingand rushing along at the bottom of a deep and, in places,overhanging gorge, the river leaps in hidden waterfallsinto such gloomy chasms as the Devils Mill, whence thetormented and tossing water passes onward beneath theRumbling Bridge to career wildly in alternate leaps andswirling rushes down the Caldron Liim. With the rixersre-entry into Clackmannanshire, the character of thevalley changes, the steep descent of the narrow gorge issucceeded bv the gentle gradient of the fertile plain, andthe river winds placidly westward through a broad belt ofpleasant agricultural land under the shelter of the boldoutline of the Ochils. It is this green valley, where 26 CLA CK M ANXAXSH IRE Devon, sweet Devon, meandering flows, that wasfamiliar to Burns, who, on his visit to Harviestoun in 1787,wrote the short Ivric commencing : How pleasant the banks of tlie clear winding Devon,With green spreading bushes, and flowers blooming fair!. The Devon, above Vicars Bridge, Dollar On reaching the western border of the county, the ri\erturns sharply southwards to join the Forth at Cambus,after a course of nearly 34 miles, though in a direct lineCambus is but 51 miles from the ri\ers source. Thus the Devon has two distinct sections : an uppercourse flowing generally eastwards to the Crook of Devon,and a lower flowina; westwards from the Crook to Cambus. RIVERS 27 This lower section, when seen on the m;ip, appearsstrikingly peculiar, since the river flows in an oppositedirection to that followed by the Forth, entering thatriver at quite an unusual angle. This curious feature isintelligible when we consider the effect of the great Ochilfault on the development of the river system. We mayconceive the original Devon as a small tributary comingdown from the southern face of the Ochils and receivingon its way to the Forth additional streams from theeastern slopes of the Abbey Craig. This little, but rapid
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