F a l l s op t h e Not very far from Lanerk are the celebrated falls of the Clyk,
C l y d e . the moft diftant are about a half hour’s ride, at a place called
C o r y - L in . Cory-Lin; and are feen to moft advantage from a ruinous pavili
lion in a gentleman’s garden, placed in a lofty fituation. Tit
catarait is full in view, feen over the tops of trees and bullies,:
precipitating itfelf, for, an amazing way, from rock to rock, witi
Ihort interruptions, .forming a rude Hope of furious foam. Tk
fides are bounded by vaft rocks, cloathed on their tops with .trees:
on the fummit and very verge of one is a ruined tower, and ii
front a wood, over-topt by ,a verdant hill.
A path conduits the traveller down to the beginning of tk
fall, into which projeits a high rock, in floods infulated by the
waters, and from the top is a tremendous view of the furious
ftream. In the clifts of this favage retreat the bams Walloon
faid to have concealed himfelf, meditating revenge for his injur’d
country.
On regaining the top the -walk is formed near the verge of the
rocks, which on both fides rare perfectly mural and equidiftant,
except where they over-hang •, the river is pent up between them
at a diftance far beneath ; not running, but rather Aiding along s
ftoney bottom Hoping the whole way. The fummits of tk
rock are wooded; the fides fmooth and naked; the ftrata narrow
and regular, forming a ftupendous natural mafonry. Afts
a walk of above half a mile on the edge of this great chafm, on
BoNrTON. a fudden appears the great and bold fall of Boniton, in a foaming
iheet, far-proje&ing into a hollow, in which the water fhews
a violent agitation, and a far extending mift arifes from the fa-
face. Above that is afecond great fa ll; two lefier fucceed: be-
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Lond them the river winds, grows more tranquil, and is feen
¡for a confiderable way, bounded on one fide by wooded banks,
Ion the other by rich and fwelling fields.
I Return the fame way to Lanerk: much barley, oats, peas and
Lotatoes are raifed about the town, and fome wheat: the manure
moft in ufe is a white marie, full of Ihells, found about four
leet below the peat, in a ftratum five feet and a half thick: it
la k e s effeit after the firft year, and produces vaft, crops. Numbers
of horfes are bred here, which at two years old are fent to
|he marihes of Airjhire, where they are kept till they are fit for ufe.
■ Again pafs over the bridge of Lanerk, in order to vifit the
-great fall of Stone-biers, about a mile from the town : this has
more of the horrible in it than either of the other two, and is
feen with more difficulty : it confifts o f two precipitous catarafts
falling one above the other into a vaft chafm, bounded by lofty
locks, forming an, amazing theatre to the view of thofe who take
the pains to defcend to the bottom. Between this and Cory-Lin
is another fall called Dundofflin-, but being fatiated for this time
with the noife of waters, we declined the fight of it.
■ Return over the bridge, and walk to Cartland-crags: a zig»zag
den of great extent, bounded by rocks of a very uncommon
height, and almoft entirely cloathed with trees. It is a place o f
laborious accefs from above, fo difficult is it amidft the ffiade of
frees to find a way free from precipice. The bottom is watered
by the river Moufe; and the fides, at every ihort turn, finely varied
with the different appearance of rock, wood and precipice,
■merge into the open fpace; remount our horfes, and ride for
feme miles along a rich vale, with the Clyde palling along the bot-
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