a large river of Scotland, which, with the rivers Tweed and Annan, has its source at the head of Annandale, and joins the sea at Greenock, where it forms the Frith of Clyde. It is navigable for small vessels up to Glasgow. The canal, which joins the Forth, falls into it ten miles below that city. The cataract called the Falls 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 Stone-bryes, the first fall is about 60 feet; the next at Cora-Lynn, is over solid rock, and is still higher. At both these places this great body of water exhibits a grander and more interesting spectacle than imagination can possibly conceive.

At Cora-Lynn, the falls are seen to most advantage from a pavilion placed in a lofty situation, and which is furnished with mirrors which produce a fine effect. 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 overtopped by a verdant hill. A path conducts the traveller down to the beginning of the fall, into which projects a high rock, in floods insulated 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 stony 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 chasm, 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 violent agitation, and a wide extending mist arises from the surface. Above that is another fall; two lesser succeed; beyond them the river winds, grows more tranquil, and is seen for a considerable way, bounded on one side by wooded banks, on the other by rich and swelling fields.

The great fall of Stone-byres, first mentioned, has more of the sublime 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 Cora-Lynn there is another fall called Dundufflin.