Carron wharf. Carren wharf lies upon the river, which falls a few miles belj
into the Forth, and is not only ufeful to the great iron works erect]
near it, but of great fervice even to Glafgew, confiderable quantij
of goods deftined for that city being landed here. The carJ
which is to form a communication between this firth and that 1
Clyde, begins on the fouth fide of the mouth of the Carron. l|
courfe will be above thirty miles, affifted by thirty-nine locks, I#
wellern termination is to be at Dalmuir-buirn-foot, eight miles belol
Glajgow; but, for the conveniency of that city, it is propofed tt
form another branch from the great trunk, at a place called tj
■flocking bleachfield, between two and three miles diftant from tl]
city.
S u t . 18. Near Callendar houfe, at’ a fmall diftance eaft from Falkirk, J
fome large remains of Antoninus'a wall, or,-as it is called heil
Graham's dike, from the notion that one Graham, or Grimus*, fir!
made a breach in it, foon after the retreat of the Romans outo|
Britain. This vaft work was efleeted by Lollius Urbicus, govern*
o f Britain, during the reign of Antoninus Pius, as appears by inlcripl
tions found on ftones difcovered among the ruins of the chain o|
forts that defended it. Moft of them are in honor of the emperor!
one only mentions the lieutenant f . The wall itfelf was of toil
which in this place was forty feet broad, and the ditch thirteen feel
deep. Lollius, after defeating the Britons, a n d re c o v e r in g the con*
. try, which was, as Tacitus J exprelfes it, “ loft as foon as wm,’|
# Boethius•
t Horjley, Scotland, tab. viii. See alfo my firft volume, p. 138, where fiw«*
the infcriptions are mentioned.
X Hift. lib . I. c. z.
. reftoral
IN S C O T L A N D , 23,
jeltored to the empire the boundary left by Agricola, and removed
Ihe barbarians to a greater diftance*. It is probable, that Lollius
■light either place his forts on the fame fite with thofe built by
wbricola, or make ufe of the fame in cafe they were n_ot deftroyed ;
¡but the firft is moft probable, as fifty-five years had elapfed, from
the time.that left the ifland, to the re-conqueft of thefe parts
!:by the legate of Antonine. This wall begins near Kirk-Patrick, on the
|-firth of Clyde, and ends at Caeridden, two miles weft of Abercorn,
-on the firth of Forth, being, according to Mr. Gordon, in length,
' thirty-fix miles, eight hundred and eighty-feven paces; and defended,
I think, by twelve, if not thirteen forts. It is probable, that the
mmrn did not keep poffeffion even of this wall for any length
of time; for there are no infcriptions but in honour of that fingle
emperor.
■Continue our journey over a naked and barren country. Leave,
on the right, the nunnery of Manwel, founded by Malcolm IV.
in 1156. The Reclufes were of the Ciflercian order. Crofs the
ipter of Avon, and enter the fhire of
L i n l i t h g o w ,
; tod foon after have a beautiful view of the town, the caftle, and the
;hke. This is fuppofed to be the Lindum of Ptolemy, and to take its
pmefrom its fituation on a lake, or Lin, or Llyn, which the word
;&> or Llyn, fignifies.
■The town contains between three and four thoufand fouls, and
■firs on a confiderable trade in drefiing of white leather, which is
* Capitelinuso
fent