[Illustration: ON THE WHARFE--BOLTON ABBEY. W.H.J. BOOT R.B.A. DELT C.O. MURRAY SCULPT] _THE WHARFE, FROM BOLTON ABBEY.--A few signed Artist's Proofs of this Etching on India paper can be obtained, price £1 1s. each, on application to the Publishers_, CASSELL & COMPANY, LIMITED, Ludgate Hill, London. THE RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN DESCRIPTIVE HISTORICAL PICTORIAL _RIVERS OF THE EAST COAST_ [Illustration] CASSELL & COMPANY LIMITED _LONDON PARIS NEW YORK & MELBOURNE_ 1889 [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [Illustration] CONTENTS. THE HIGHLAND DEE.--_By FRANCIS WATT._ PAGE The Source: Larig and Garchary Burns--In the Heart of the Cairngorm Mountains--Ben Macdhui and Braeriach--"A Fery Fulgar Place"--A Highland Legend--The Linn of Dee--Byron's Narrow Escape--The Floods of 1829--Lochnagar and Mary Duff--Influence of the Dee on Byron--Braemar and the Rising of '15--Corriemulzie and its Linn--Balmoral--The "Birks" of Abergeldie--Their Transplantation by Burns--What is Collimankie?--Ballater: the Slaying of "Brave Brackley"--Craigendarroch--The Reel of Tullich and the Origin Thereof--The Legend of St. Nathdan--Mythological Parallels--The Muich--Morven: the Centre of Highland Song and Legend--Birse--Lunphanan Wood--The Battle of Corrichie--Queen Mary and Sir John Gordon--At Aberdeen 1 THE TAY.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._ The Tiber and the Tay--History and Legend--Perthshire and the Tay--The Moor of Rannoch--Blair--Pitlochrie--Killin--Kenmore--The Lyon--The "Rock of Weem"--The "Birks" of Aberfeldy--Dunkeld and Birnam--Invertuthil--The Loch of Clunie--The Isla--Strathmore--Dunsinane Hill--Scone and the Ruthvens--Perth--The Views from Moncrieffe and Kinnoull--Strathearn and the Carse of Gowrie--Dundee--The Tay Bridge, New and Old--View from the "Law"--"Men of Blood" and Men of Business 17 THE FORTH.--_By JOHN GEDDIE._