Clyde

the chief river of Scotland. It rises in Lanarkshire and Dumfries, and flows westward into the Irish Sea. The river is about eighty miles in length. In its upper course it makes three distinct leaps ere it leaves the hills. The mouth is a broad estuary or firth. The channel has been dredged to permit large stoamers to ascend as far as Glasgow. An outgoing steamer takes cargo at the wharves of Glasgow, but usually lies to at Greenock near the mouth of the river for passengers from the city to join it by rail. The Firth of Clyde is full of booms of timber from Norway. The lofty rock and castle of Dumbarton keep watch over a noble scene. Ships innumerable are passing up and down this busy stream. See Glasgow