606 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



the qualities of t 1 r, have eilablifhcd thtf 



greatdt printfields aiul bleacheries in that country; 

 but the c\c ' fed upon thefe brar. 



with the hig! , indcbe boundldt 



:;oods, will probably transfer thefe. 

 > to foreign dates. Thib is ; 

 the language of every trader from one end of B; 

 to the other. 



The Lcven glides in a copious dream ov 

 pebbly bottom, till it joins the Clyde, 5 miK , 

 low. It abounds in falmonai; i its bra.. 



form alinoft one continued wood, intermixed with 

 s, mead 



announce to f 



return to the LowCountries, to which Dunbarton, an 

 :it royal borough, is the weftern entrance, 

 re the Leven, navigable for vcilcls of 200 tons 

 burden, falls into the Clyde, where the latter is a 

 mile in breadth. At the point, or angle, formed by 

 the junction of thefe rivers, a perpendicular double 

 pointed rock riles from the level beach to a 

 height, and hath been occupied, from th 

 annals of the Scottish hiftory, as a caflle, or armory. 

 A frr.all tower on the fummit is fupj i have 



been a Roman pharos or light-houfe. The fituation 

 of this cattle, at the conflux of two confiderable 

 rivers, gives it a moft extenfive and variegated 

 peel: over the fhires of Renfrew and Dunbarton, 

 which it fully commands i Cowal, in Argylefhire ; 

 the crowded lummito of the Grampian mountains, 

 in Perth (hire ; and the fpircs of Glafgow, at the 

 diftance of 14 miles, in Lanerkfhire, 



The road from Dunbarton to Glafgow, though 



moftly on a level, is uncommonly delightful. It is 



carried along the north fliore of the Clyde, and hath 



throughout an extenfive view of Renfrewfhire, which 



forms the oppofite fhore. At the diftance of a full 



mile from Dunbarton, commences a ridge of hills, 



.i, under various names, extends in ar.nort:. 



4 direction, 



