Identifier: riversofgreatbr00lond (find matches)
Title: The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts
Year: 1897 (1890s)
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Subjects: Rivers
Publisher: London (etc.) Cassell
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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ranksof tenements and ranges of factory chimneys. In the three miles and three-quarters of its com-se beginning at IJonnington.the Clyde descends a depth of 260 feet, leaping again and again, and yet again,over sheer walls of rock, boiling in pools and pot-holes, and brawling over boulderand shingle bed, between mm-al cliffs of old red sandstone or high lianks clothedwith wood or diversified by parks and orchards. In the remaining forty or fifty milesof its journey, before it becomes finally merged in the salt water, its fall is only170 feet. 348 nnFRS OF GREAT BRfT.\TX. (The Clyde. Clyiles first pliuifrc at tlio Boniunut<in. or IJoiiitou. I.inn. is the least deep andimpressive of the tliree : and by comparison with the scenes below, the surroundino-sof the spot where the river takes its leap are oi)en and Itare. The water fallssheer over a precipice into a deep cauldron 30 feet below, and is broken in itsdescent only by a projecting- rock in the middle. Thence it churns and eddies
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Photo: A. Brown i Co., La COIIUA LINN. and boils between tlic lofty walls f)f sandstone overhung- ))\- wood, and ihapcnlwherever tliere is hold for root and librr b\- trees ;iiid undergiowth, to meet af,rcatcr cata.strophe at Corra Linn. At this tlic uTandcst of Scotlands waterfalls —Clydes nio.st majestic (laii<rliter—the stream flings itself down from a height of84 feet, in a tumultuous white mass of foam, the falling body of water being The Clyde.) CORRA LINN. 349 broken and torn in its descent Ijy many sharp ledg-es and points of rock. In time ofspate, especially when the sun shines and wreathes rainbows in the smoke of mistand spray that rises from the fall, the scene is indescribably f^rand. The deafening-roar of the angry waters, the loveliness of the rock and sylvan scenery in whichthey are set, deepen beyond measure tlie impression which these Falls of Clydemak(! on the mind and imagination. The wealtli of foliage—bracken, broom, sloe,

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