The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the South and West CoastsVarious
History
The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the South and West Coasts
Various
Great Britain -- Description and travel; Rivers -- Great Britain
RIVERS OF LANCASHIRE AND LAKELAND.--_By WILLIAM SENIOR._
A Birthplace of Rivers--The /Ribble/: Ribblehead--
Horton-in-Ribblesdale--Survival of Old Traditions--Hellifield--The
Hodder--Stonyhurst and its College--The Calder--Burnley--Towneley
Hall--Preston--Its Development as a Port. The /Wyre/:
Poulton-le-Fylde. The /Lune/: Kirkby Lonsdale--The Greta and the
Wenning--Hornby Castle--Lancaster--Morecambe Bay--The Journey
from Lancaster to Ulverston in Coaching Days--Shifting Sands.
The /Kent/: Kentmere--Kendal. The Gilpin and the Winster. The
/Rothay/ and the /Brathay/. Grasmere and Wordsworth--Rydal
Water--Ambleside--Windermere. Troutbeck. Esthwaite Water. The
/Leven/: Newby Bridge--The Estuary. The /Crake/: Coniston
Water--Coniston Hall--Brantwood and Mr. Ruskin. The /Duddon/:
Wordsworth's Sonnets. The /Esk/ and the /Irt/: Wastwater. The
/Liza/: Ennerdale Water. The /Ehen/: Egremont Castle. The
/Derwent/: The Vale of St. John's--The Greta and Keswick--The View
from Castlerigg top--Derwentwater 271
RIVERS OF THE SOLWAY FIRTH.--_By FRANCIS WATT._
The Firth--A Swift Tide. The /Eden/: The Eamont--Eden
Hall--Armathwaite--John Skelton--Wetheral and Corby Castle--The
Caldew and the Petteril--Greystoke Castle--Carlisle, its
Romance and History--_Serva Pactum_--"Kinmont Willie" and the
"bauld Buccleuch"--Executions of Jacobites--The Carlisle of
To-day--The Sark--Gretna Green. The /Liddel/--Hermitage Water and
Castle. The /Esk/: The Tarras--Gilnockie Tower--Carlenrig and
Johnnie Armstrong--Young Lochinvar--Kirtle Water and its Tragic
Story. The /Annan/: The Land of the Bruces--Thomas Carlyle.
The /Nith/: Dumfries--Burns's Grave--Robert Bruce and the Red
Cumyn--Drumlanrig and Caerlaverock Castles--The Cairn and its
Associations--The New Abbey Pow and Sweetheart Abbey. The /Dee/:
Douglas Tongueland--Threave Castle. The /Cree/: Newton Stewart--The
"Cruives of Cree." The /Bladenoch/: The Wigtown Martyrs 301
RIVERS OF AYRSHIRE.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._
Poetic Associations--Headstreams of the Ayrshire Rivers--"The Land
of Burns"--The Ayr and the Doon--Sorn--Catrine--Ballochmyle--
Mossgiel--Mauchline--Barskimming--Coilsfield House and the Fail
Water--The Coyl--Auchencruive--Craigie--Ayr--The Doon 328
THE CLYDE.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._
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