The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ^^4^^ WilMOUTH. THE CLYDE. ClyJesdnle and its Waters—The Hill of Firp—Douglnstlalo—• Oastle Dan-jerous—Bonning^on Linn—Corra Linn and Walloces Tuwir —Lanark—Thf Mouse Water—StonebjTes Linn—The Xethan ami ? Tillietudloni— The Urchai-duf Sctilland—Uaniilton and its Talaee—Oidzow Castle and its Assoeiations—Bothwdl Briij and (astle—BLint\Te—Cnmhiisling—Uiitherglen—GLisgow: The City and its History—The (inays. Porks, and Shiidmilding Yards-The Workof the Clyde Navigation Trust—IKnim and Tarliek—
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ^^4^^ WilMOUTH. THE CLYDE. ClyJesdnle and its Waters—The Hill of Firp—Douglnstlalo—• Oastle Dan-jerous—Bonning^on Linn—Corra Linn and Walloces Tuwir —Lanark—Thf Mouse Water—StonebjTes Linn—The Xethan ami ? Tillietudloni— The Urchai-duf Sctilland—Uaniilton and its Talaee—Oidzow Castle and its Assoeiations—Bothwdl Briij and (astle—BLint\Te—Cnmhiisling—Uiitherglen—GLisgow: The City and its History—The (inays. Porks, and Shiidmilding Yards-The Workof the Clyde Navigation Trust—IKnim and Tarliek—The AVhite Cart—Diiniltirton Rock and Castli—The Leven Valley—Ben and Ixxh Lomond—Gn^enoek-Gourtiek—The Firth at L.\S(;()W CITY lias, as its t-hiof armorial drvicc. a tree of nia^ssive trunk and wiilc-siircadini; hram-lies. The minor svmbols, of l>ird and l)ell and tisli, have lost their old .siiinificance. The salmon no lon<rer ventures so far up the labour-stained waters W/^-j%^ f ^^ Clyde as Glasgow Green. Xo more the bell ^P^k*^a\^9^ soinids to matins and vesjiers on tlic lianks of the .Abilcmlinar ,W^ j^ .-^ Ijurn. now turned by mans im])rovini:- hand into a main sewer. The sooty street-sparrow, almost alone anioiiir the feathered tril)e, is at home under the jzreat eitys ]ki11 of smoke. Hut more than ever the statelv and tree isan apt similitude, not only r)f the little cathedral town that has grown to ])e, asits inhabitants jn-oudly boast, the Second City of the Empire, but also of thestream that has nurtured it to <rrcatness. Tlie Clyde, if it is not the loiiiifst ofcourse or the larjrest of volume of .stn^nns, is bevonil all comparison themo
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