a river in Scotland, which, arising in Annandale, falls into the sea over against the isle of Bute. Next to the Tay, it is the largest river in Scotland; and is navigable for small craft up to Glasgow. The canal, which joins the Forth, falls into it a little below that city. The cataract called the Frith of the Clyde, opposite to Lanark, is a great natural curiosity, and the first scene of the kind in Great Britain. This tremendous sheet of water for about a mile falls from rock to rock. At Stonebyres, the first fall is about 60 feet; the last, at Cory-Lynn, is over solid rock, not less than 100 feet high. At both these places this great body of water exhibits a grander and more interesting spectacle than imagination can possibly conceive.

At Cory-Lynn, the falls are seen to most advantage from a ruined pavilion in a garden, placed in a lofty situation. The cataract is full in view, seen over the tops of trees and bushes, precipitating itself, for an amazing way, from rock to rock, with short interruptions, forming a rude slope of furious foam. The sides are bounded by vast rocks, clothed on their tops with trees; on the summit and very verge of one is a ruined tower, and in front a wood over-topped by a verdant hill. A path conducts the traveller down to the beginning of the fall, into which projects a high rock, in floods inflated by the water; and from the top is a tremendous view of the furious stream. In the cliffs of this savage retreat the brave Wallace is said to have concealed himself, meditating revenge for his injured country.

On regaining the top, the walk is formed near the verge of the rocks; which on both sides are perfectly mural and equidistant, except where they overhang: the river is pent up between them at a distance far beneath; not running, but rather sliding along a stoney bottom sloping the whole way. The summits of the rock are wooded; the sides smooth and naked; the strata narrow and regular, forming a stupendous natural masonry. After a walk of above half a mile on the edge of this great cliff, on a sudden appears the great and bold fall of Boniton, in a foaming-sheet, far-projecting into a hollow, in which the water shows a violent agitation, and a wide extending mist arises from the surface. Above that is a second great fall; two lesser succeed: beyond them the river winds, grows more tranquil, and is seen for a considerable way, bounded... bounded on one side by wooded banks, on the other by rich and swelling fields.

The great fall of Stone-byers, first mentioned, has more of the horrible in it than any of the others, and is seen with more difficulty; it consists of two precipitous cataracts falling one above the other into a vast chasm, bounded by lofty rocks, forming an amazing theatre to the view of those who take the pains to descend to the bottom. Between this and Cory-Lynn there is another fall called Dundofflin.