a mile below Bonnington Linn. A chasm, | cliffs, is furnished with mirrors which with faces of mural rock from 70 to 100 reflect the scenery, and commands not feet deep, conveys the river, in deep only some of the grandest aspects of the Igloom, with surging current, from the fall itself, but a prospect over New Lanone fall to the other; and is at one place ark, down Strathclyde, to a distant skyso narrow that a bold leaper has been line of hill and mountain. Another view known to clear it at a bound. The walk of high character is got at a spot opposite along the side of its brink is a constant the darkest part of the fall's amphisuccession of beauty and romance. A theatre, reached by a fine sloping walk, narrow path, deflecting near the lower close by the edge of a wooded precipice; end, goes down a shelving descent to a and this view, in addition to all the feagorge of about eight feet in width, which tures over the face and borders of the shows some slight remains of an ancient fall, includes the march of the river drawbridge; and here the visitor has a downward from it to a disappearance striking view of the old Castle of Core- among woods, a gorgeous breadth of the house, crowning a cliff a brief distance adjacent right flank around Lanark, below; and is shown a cavern in the face Cartland Crags and Lee Castle, and a of the precipice, known to have been noble perspective away to Ben Lomond. formed artificially at a recent period, but Still another view, different from the popularly called Wallace's Cave. An rest, and more confined, but surpassing Englishman, in 1815, slipped from the them in force, is obtained by descendpath into the river at the gorge, and was ing the face of the rock, down a flight swept over all the Corra Fall; and a lady of steps, formed about the year 1828, from Glasgow, in 1844, on a pleasure to a spot at the bottom of the amphiexcursion with her husband, anxious to theatre, exactlv in front of the fall, and see Wallace's Cave, and making a false on a level with the receiving pool. step, met a similar fate.

The Corra Fall makes a total descent of 84 feet; but it achieves this in a series,-first a fall of a few feet, next a fall of about 30 feet, next a tumultuous rapid of about 30 yards, next a grand concluding leap. The sweep of bank around it is a magnificent amphitheatre, rocky, intricate, and romantic, rising in some parts to the height of 120 feet, and everywhere shagged with wood. It is the most picturesque of the falls, unexcelled in richness by anything in Scotland, and by few things in the world, and has been more sung by poets and studied by painters than any other spot in the kingdom.

A good side view of Corra Linn is obtained from the brink of a rock. A better view is got within a pleasant pavilion, erected in 1708 by Sir James Carmichael, and put into modern repair by Sir Charles Ross. This stands on the crown of a bank overlooking the

Corra Linn, and the estate of Corehouse, lying along the left side of the river above and below the fall, are supposed to have taken their name from Cora, an ancient Caledonian princess, who was dashed to destruction by the leap of her palfrey over the cliff into the cataract. Corehouse mansion, now the seat of Miss Edmonstone Cranstoun, formerly the seat of the late Lord Corehouse, is picturesquely situated on the crown of a cliff, a little below the fall. Corehouse Castle, the ruin of an ancient baronial fortalice, surmounts the verge of a cliff immediately above the fall, so closely overhanging the surge, on a mass of weather-worn, stratified rock, that high floods of the river make it tremble to its centre. Wordsworth caught the essence of all the surrounding scene when he exclaimed,

"Lord of the vale! astounding flood t
The dullest leaf in this thick wood
Quakes, conscious of thy power;

NEW LANARK-KIRKFIELD BANK.

The caves reply with hollow moan,
And vibrates to its central stone

You time-cemented tower."

503. NEW LANARK, with extensive cotton mills and about 1700 inhabitants, stands on the right bank of the Clyde, half a mile below Corra Linn. It was founded, in 1784, by the enterprising, philanthropic David Dale; and for a succession of years, terminating in 1827, it was a model scene of the social experi.ments of Mr. Dale's son-in-law, the visionary Robert Owen. Some beautiful walks, formed by Mr. Owen for the recreation of the villagers, afford, at different points, a series of interesting and varied prospects. A fall on the Clyde, called Dundaff Linn, a little above the village, not more than 10 feet in descent, but presenting a very pretty miniature of the greater falls, is well seen from one point of the walks. A small recess in the rocks, in the neighbourhood of this linn, bears the name of Wallace's Chair, and not improbably was a real retreat of the Scottish hero.

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thence by way of the site of Baronald House, before the rent was formed. geologist draws from this wondrous scene some brilliant illustrations of his science; and the ordinary observer sees in it a series of close views surprisingly rich in mingled beauty, romance, and grandeur. A curious ancient bridge, with one semicircular arch and a narrow roadway, supposed to have been built by the Romans, bestrides the Mouse at the lower end of the Crags. A handsome bridge, with three semicircular arches, and 129 feet high, constructed in 1823 after a design by Thomas Telford, spans the chasm a short way up. An aperture in the north cliff, immediately above this bridge, bears the name of Wallace's Cave; but is too small and too inconveniently situated to have been capable of rendering the Scottish hero any military service. A spot further up, on the brink of the precipice, called Castle Qua, shows faint traces of ancient fortification, is known to have had subterranean chambers belonging to the Caledonian times, and probably was held by Wallace as a fortalice at the period of his attack on the English garrison of Lanark. The chasm of Cartland Crags was a meetingplace of the persecuted Covenanters for public worship, and is graphically described in that capacity by Professor Wilson.

504. CARTLAND CRAGS form the faces of a stupendous chasm, fully threequarters of a mile in length, extending in a curving manner from east-north-east to west-south-west. The river Mouse struggles along its bottom, under deep gloom, among fallen blocks. The one side, at the highest, is upwards of 200 feet high; the other side, about 400 feet. 505. KIRKFIELD BANK, Dublin, and Both sides are cliffs, perpendicular, fis- Linville, form an almost continuous vilsured, and rugged; they consist of grey-lage, with about 1200 inhabitants, chiefly wacke and old red sandstone rocks, in- employed in hand-loom weaving. Clydetersected by a vein of trap; and, not-ville and Kirkfield, the latter the seat of withstanding their being shagged and festooned with shrubs and trees on almost every break and shelf, they may be observed to correspond to each other, face to face, and part to part. The chasm evidently looks to be a rent through a mass of tabular hill, caused by the explosive stroke of a vertical earthquake. A depression occurs on the left side at the upper end, through which the Mouse appears to have ran, taking its course

John Stein, Esq., are adjacent, on the hither side of the Clyde; and Sunnyside Lodge, the seat of R. Leishman, Esq., is on the further side. The river, after having run some distance with placid current, now begins to accelerate its speed, as if in haste to leap over the awful rocks of Stonebyres; and it sends back hither on the breeze a very audible resonance of its roar at the fall. The country here is more open and garden

STONEBYRES-UDDINGTON.