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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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ver against it to the eastward rises Cutler Fell and, divided from the latterby the rich plain of Biggar, the heights of Bizzyberry and Quothquan, scenes ofthe exploits of William Wallace. Its northern slopes all drain into the DouglasWater. The moorland pastures that enclose Douglasdale sj^read away towardsCairn Table and the Ayrshire border; and from the nearer buttresses of Tinto glimpsesare had, in the valley below, of the smoke from its coalfield and of the woodsthat surround the Castle Dangerous of history and romance. The story of the House of Douglas may be read on the walls and on the floorof the church of St. Bride of Douglas, of which there remains only the spire andthe choir, lately restored by the latest heir and representative of the Douglas line,Lord Dunglass, the eldest son of the Earl of Home. In its precincts, on PalmSunday, 1307, took place that memorable struggle between the good Sir Jamesof Douglas and his adherents, and the English garrison of Sir John de Walton,
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The Clyde) THE FALLS OF CLYDE. 347 who undertook, for the winning of hi.s lovesuit, the jierlloiis cmpvise of lioldina:the castle of the Douglases against its rightful master. Here, enclosed in what woare told is a silver casket, placed under glass in the floor of the church above theDouglas vault, is the heart of the great warrior and patriot himself, brought homeafter he had lost his life among the Paynim hosts of Spain while seeking to carrythe Bruces heart to the Holy Land. His recumbent cross-legged effigy is oneof the most ancient of the monuments to his kin who lie in the church of St.Bride; among these being Archibald Bell the Cat, and Archibald the second andJames the third Dukes of Touraine, the sons of Earl Tineman. Hither came SirWalter Scott, with Lockhart in his company, on his last sad pilgrimage of romance,when the shadows of the grave had ah-eadv Ijcgun to gather about himself and hisright hand was already losing its cunning. Along the waterside for miles below Dougla

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