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The Rivers of Great Britain, Descriptive, Historical, Pictorial: Rivers of the East Coast
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4064066202354
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. FROM BERWICK TO KELSO.
CHAPTER II. FROM KELSO TO TWEEDSWELL.
CHAPTER III. FROM HEXHAM TO NEWCASTLE.
CHAPTER IV. FROM NEWCASTLE TO THE SEA.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
CHAPTER I. THE TRENT, FROM THE SOURCE TO NEWTON SOLNEY.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
CHAPTER III. THE TRENT, FROM NEWTON SOLNEY TO THE DERWENT.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
CHAPTER V. THE TRENT, FROM THE DERWENT TO THE HUMBER.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
THE HUMBER AND ITS TRIBUTARIES.
BEN MACDHUI.
THE HIGHLAND DEE.
The Source: Larig and Garchary Burns—In the Heart of the Cairngorm Mountains—Ben Macdhui and Braeriach—“A Fery Falgar 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.
Among the streams that meet together in the wild south-west of Aberdeenshire to form the Dee, it is not easy to decide which is chief, or where is the fountain, far up the dark mountain-side, where this parent rill has birth. Dismissing minor pretenders, we can at once state that the original is either the Larig or the Garchary Burn. The first is more in the main line of the river, whilst it has also more water; the second rises higher up, and has a longer course before it reaches the meeting-place. Popularly, the source of the stream is a place about the beginning of the Larig, called the Wells of Dee. Here Nature has built a reservoir perfect in every part. The water escapes from this fountain-head in considerable volume, so that it forms a quite satisfactory source, which we may well adopt. Here, then, our journey commences among
“The grizzly cliffs that guard
The infant rills of Highland Dee.”
We are in the very heart of the Cairngorm Mountains, confronted on every side by all that is most