UDDINGSTONE-BLANTYRE.

XXXV.—FROM CARSTAIRS, BY UDDINGSTONE TO GLASGOW.

crossed.....
Daldowie House, on the
further bank of the
Clyde, half a mile to
right; Newton Sta-
tion, 21 miles............ 493
Hallside and Gilbertfield,
2 miles to the left;
Kenmuir Bank, on
the further side of the
Clyde, three-quarters of
a mile to the right...... 494
Dechmont Hill, 2 miles
to the left....
Pleasant view along the
Clyde, right front;
Carmyle, on the further
bank of the Clyde, three-
quarters of a mile to
the right; junction of
Branch Railway from
Hamilton, left; Cam-
buslang Station, 25

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ROTTEN CALDER WATER-CAMBUSLANG,

Blantyre; and was refitted and used by | profusion of ornament; some small afflu.

him as a baronial residence. A popular legend says that Sir William Wallace once took shelter in it from a body of his English enemies, and astonished them by a dexterous escape from a window of it over a precipice. Another legend asserts the existence of a subterranean passage from it to Bothwell Castle; and this is used by Miss Jane Porter to complicate her story of the "Scottish Chiefs." Only a tottering fragment of the priory now remains, perched on a high, precipitous rock by the side of the river, and presenting a picturesque appearance.

ents come down, through lateral low ravines, in a rush of beauty; hundreds of mansions, villages, mining establishments, and seats of manufacture, dot and tesselate the landscape; and the fine hill ridge of Dechmont and Cathkin, with wooded skirts and flowing summit line, at a mean distance of 23 miles from the river on the left, redeems completely the general flatness of the valley, and offers noble vantage-grounds for surveying its scenery.

494. KENMUIR BANK, on the right margin of the Clyde, about a mile northwest of the Newton Station, is a steep

face, about 70 feet high, commanding a brilliant view. Carmyle village, on the same side, half a mile further down, occupies a delightful situation, and comprises about forty houses scattered among trees and gardens. A spot in its vicinity, called "The Bluidy Neuk," is the scene of a famous ghost story, arising from a doubly mortal duel between two rustic rivals in love.

492. ROTTEN CALDER WATER rises on Ellrig Moor, and runs 10 miles north-acclivity, with picturesquely broken sureastward to the Clyde at Turn Wheel, about a mile east of Newton Station. Its banks are generally steep, richly wooded, and picturesque. Its stream is shallow and rapid, flowing chiefly on a gravelly or a rocky bed, and makes a number of fine cascades. Its banks are gemmed with the mansions of Cleughearn, the Earl of Eglinton; Torrance, Major Harrington; Calderwood Castle, Colonel Sir William A. Maxwell, Bart.; Crossbasket, James Clark, Esq.; Greenhall, J. W. Moore, Esq.; Millheugh, Andrew Bannatyne, Esq.; Caldergrove, James M'Culloch, Esq.; Calderbank, Mrs. Hutton; and Hallside, George Jardine, Esq.,-the last built by the late Professor Jardine of Glasgow, and occupied for some time by the late Professor Wilson of Edinburgh.

493. NEWTON Station stands amid a fertile tract, rich in minerals, and thickly peopled. Newton House, in its vicinity, is the property of J. H. Montgomery, Esq.; and Daldowie House, on the other side of the Clyde, is the seat of James M'Call, Esq. The Clyde's valley here and onward to Glasgow looks flat and English, yet has many reliefs from tameness, and abounds in interesting features. The flow of the river is pleasant; the immediate banks are gay; the adjacent grounds have diversities of surface and

495. DECHMONT HILL, rising to a summit altitude of about 600 feet, 2 miles south of the Newton Station, is the subject of a descriptive poem by John Struthers, and was long the scene of Beltane fires, and the site of numerous Caledonian cairns. Gilbertfield, a decayed mansion of 1607, at the north base of Dechmont, was for some time the residence of the poet, Lieutenant William Hamilton, commemorated by Burns under the name of "Gilbertfield ;" and Latrick House, now extinct, 1 mile further south, was the place in which Hamilton died.

496. CAMBUSLANG is a group of eight villages, on broken ground, bisected by a romantic burn, about half a mile from the Clyde. It has a post office under Glasgow, a handsome church with a steeple, built in 1841, and about 1800 inhabitants. A natural amphitheatre, in the ravine of the burn, a little to the

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east, served in 1742 as a substitute for | the aristocratic zealous supporter of the the parish church, and was then the rebellion of 1745, resided at Mount scene of a remarkable religious revival, Cameron, three-quarters of a mile to the known as the "Cambuslang wark." A south-east. Dr. William Hunter, and circular flat-topped mound, about a mile Dr. John Hunter, the famous promoters to the east, was the site of the stately of medical science, were born at Long baronial Castle of Drumsargard, the seat Calderwood, 1 mile to the north. of successively the Oliphants, the Murrays, the Douglases, and the Hamiltons, but now extinct. Westburn House, now occupied by a farmer; Morriston House, John Bain, Esq.; Rosebank, Matthew Walker, Esq.; and Wellshoot, T. Gray Buchanan, Esq., are in the neighbourhood. Rosebank was the seat of the distinguished David Dale, and for some time the residence of the Rev. Dr. Wardlaw.

497. CATHKIN HILL, to the left of the railway, between Cambuslang and Rutherglen, commands a gorgeous, extensive, panoramic view, and is a favourite haunt of ramblers from Glasgow. A group of Caledonian cairns stood on it, containing a remarkable number and variety of curious relics, but have all been carried away for building purposes. Cathkin House, the seat of A. Crum M Lae, Esq., 24 miles south-south-east of Rutherglen, is a fine mansion; and Castlemilk, the seat of Captain J. Stewart Stirling, on the further side of the hill, 1 mile west-north-west of Cathkin House, is a stately old edifice amid grounds adorned with ancient trees, and containing vestiges of a Roman road. Queen Mary slept at Castlemilk on the night before the battle of Langside.

498. EAST KILBRIDE, with a post office under Glasgow, a parish church, and about 1200 inhabitants, stands 53 miles south of Rutherglen. It is an ancient place, but has now a poor appearance. A barony around it belonged successively to the Comyns, the Lord High Stewards of Scotland, and the Lindsays of Dunrod; and the ruin of its castle, long an edifice of great splendour, still stands about a mile to the north-north-west. Mrs. Jean Cameron,

499. RUTHERGLEN claims to have been founded by a Scottish king 213 years before the Christian era. It probably was a scene of both military exploits and Culdee efforts in the seventh century. It certainly rose to be a town as early as Glasgow, and it excelled that place for some time, both in burghal note and as a seat of trade. But now it retains none of its ancient consequence, ranks practically as a manufacturing suburb of Glasgow, and presents a poorer appearance than most other towns of its size in Scotland. It consists principally of a spacious street, about half a mile in length, extending east and west; and a number of short, narrow, transverse streets or lanes. Its houses, for the most part, are either thatched cottages or plain two-storey buildings, showing no arrangement on any regular plan. A strong military castle anciently stood on a spot now occupied by a garden adjacent to Castle Street, and made a conspicuous figure in the wars of the Succession, but has disappeared. The ancient church was the scene of two notable events in the history of Sir William Wallace,—a treaty of peace between Scotland and England procured at the point of his sword, and the infamous contract between Sir John Menteith and the minions of King Edward to betray the hero to the English. The church was demolished in 1794; but its steeple, a quaint quadrangular structure, with a low spire, still stands. Queen Mary was nearly intercepted in her flight from the field of Langside, by two rustics armed with scythes, at a lane called Din's Dykes. A body of Covenanters, in 1679, made a demonstration in Rutherglen, which led to the skirmish of Drumclog and the battle of Bothwell

Bridge. The town has a post office under | luvial land, with wooded swelling flanks, Glasgow, an office of the City of Glasgow along serpentine folds of the Clyde, from Bank, a public library, and four places or the eastern extremity of Glasgow upworship. It is governed by a pro- ward to the vicinity of Tollcross. Struthvost, two bailies, and fifteen council- ers celebrates it in his "Dychmont." lors; and it unites with Kilmarnock and The road from Glasgow to Cambuslang three other burghs in sending a member crosses it, and is carried over the Clyde to Parliament. Its population in 1851 by a timber bridge. The works which was 6514. It gave the title of Earl, in supplied Glasgow with water, prior to the 1697, to a son of the Duke of Hamilton. opening of the works at Loch Katrine, Numerous good residences stand in the stand on part of it. Numerous fine reenvirons of Rutherglen, within a radius sidences closely adjoin it, chiefly Dalof 1 mile, chiefly Stonelaw Tower, Scots-marnock House, Barrowfield House, town, Blairbeth, Bankhead, Greenhill, Newlands, Jeanfield, Springbank, BelMuirbank, Newfield, Balvaird, Gallow- videre, West-thorn, Dalbeth, and Easterflat, Blackfaulds, Rutherhouse, Shaw- hall. A pleasant public walk wends field, Shawfield Bank, Shawfield Park, Hayfield, and Farme; and the last of these, situated between the railway and the Clyde, now the seat of James Farie, Esq., belonged successively to the royal Stewarts, the Crawfords, the Stewarts of Minto, the Flemings, and the Hamiltons, and is a castellated structure of very ancient date, in perfect preservation, enlarged with modern additions, in harmonious keeping with the ancient pile, and forming altogether one of the finest specimens of an old baronial residence in the west of Scotland. Ancient tumuli, containing curious relics, existed till the latter part of last century at Hamilton Farme and Gallowflat; and an eminence called Crosshill, about half a mile westsouth-west of the town, was surmounted for ages by a tall, richly-sculptured stone

cross.

500. DALMARNOCK is a reach of al

along all its border, and has long been a favourite resort of the citizens. A former proprietor of West-thorn, Mr. Thomas Harvey, blocked up this walk with a wall which acquired extensive notoriety under the name of Harvey's Dyke. The citizens were indignant at the obstruction. A great mob of them, in the summer of 1823, marched upon it with pick-axes and crowbars, and levelled it with the ground. Most were dispersed by a party of dragoons, and a few were made prisoners and subjected to heavy punishment. The wall was rebuilt, and stood for several years barring the thoroughfare; but a litigation was commenced, by public subscription, amid immense enthusiasm, and terminated in a decision by the House of Lords fatal to the wall, and establishing for ever the public right of passage.

XXXVI.-THE FALLS OF CLYDE AND CARTLAND CRAGS.

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ward, along the right
face and brow of
Cartland Crags, past
the new bridge which
spans the chasm, and
Wallace's Cave and
Castle Qua, to the
upper extremity of the
Crags..........

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graph

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return to Lanark. Go
westward, along the old

Glasgow road, across the Clyde; thence to the right, as shown in XXXVIII., through Kirkfield Bank, Dublin, and Linville.......... 505 504 To the vicinity of Stonebyres House, two miles

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Thence, if the stream be

low, descend to the bed

of the stream, and go

along all the bottom of

the chasm, and thence

501. BONNINGTON LINN is situated 2 miles south of Lanark. The road to it leads about 1 mile to the lodge-gate of Bonnington House, and goes thence through Bonnington grounds. All of it is charming, and some points command arresting prospects. Bonnington grounds, the property of Sir Charles Ross, Bart., are open to the tourist, and have been provided with seats, and paths, and other aids for his accommodation. The mansion stands within a quarter of a mile of Corra Linn, and was built by Sir John Lockhart Ross, the famous navigator, after designs by Gillespie Graham. It superseded an old mansion, belonging to the lineal representatives of the Baillies of Lamington, the heirs of Sir William Wallace; and contains a fine old portrait of the Scottish hero; a broad, open seat, of rude structure, called Wallace's chair; and a small ancient cup, girt with a silver hoop, called Wallace's quaigh. These relics were brought, at a remote period, from Lamington Castle. The estate of Bonnington passed to Sir J. L. Ross, by marriage with Lady Ross Baillie. See 75.

The visitor, on his way upward, has the option of taking a side view of Corra Linn; but he will do better to reserve it till his return from Bonnington Linn. The Clyde, immediately above this fall, presents little to strike the eye, except a sudden change in the rocky formation of its bed, and the sudden commencement of a bold ripple on the surface of its

from Lanark, and walk

then through a stile on
the right to Stone-
byres Linn................ 506

waters. The rocks, hitherto, beneath
and around it, are chiefly of hard kinds,
belonging to the greywacke and the old
red sandstone series; while here they
begin to be comparatively soft and freely
stratified, admitting easy erosion by the
action of the stream, and belonging to
the sandstones and shales of the coal
formation. The section cut through
them at the fall and downward, offers
a beautiful study to a young geologist.
The river, approaching in placid flow,
first accelerates to rushing speed, next is
broken by two ledges, of jointly about
4 feet in depth, next leaps headlong
over a precipice of 30 feet. The fall is
caught vertically by a projecting rock,
and split all down into two masses.
The spray thrown off in the tumult
whirls swiftly aloft in mimic clouds, and
is arched, in certain states of the sun-
shine, with a briliant iris. A good
front view of the fall is obtained, at
about a furlong's distance, on the ap-
proach from Lanark, from a parapet on
the brink of a high projecting rock. The
view from the margin of the river, close
to the bottom of the fall, when circum-
stances will allow that spot to be safely
reached, is wonderfully grand. A view
of the river's approach to the fall, of the
fall itself seen downward, and of the
sweep of rolling cataract below it, is got
from a rocky islet about one-third across
the current, reached by a neat modern
iron bridge.

502. CORRA LINN occurs about half