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CHAPTER XXVII. 

 THE CLYDE AND STREAMS OF THE SOUTH-WEST. 



ONE of the sources of the CLYDE is traceable to the 

 same ridge of mountains which gives origin to the 

 Tweed and Annan ; but its larger source is the rivulet 

 of Crossburn, from Queensberry-hill, which is increased 

 by the Daer water, and afterwards joined by the Clyde - 

 burn, or little Clyde. Its after- tributaries are the 

 Elvan, Midloch, Camps, Glengonner, Duneaton, Garff, 

 Culter, the Medwins North and South, Douglas, Mouse 

 Nethan, Dalserf, Avon, and South, North, and Rotten 

 Calders. All of these streams contain trout ; some of 

 them, such as Duneaton, Elvan, and Glengonner waters, 

 in great abundance. In the main river, they are occa- 

 sionally caught of large size. Below the fall, at Stone- 

 byres, Clyde is frequented by salmon j but there are few 

 or no sea-trout that ascend its current, so far up even 

 as Hamilton. Pike and perch, however, are common ; 

 and the roach or braize is occasionally taken in the 

 lower parts of the river. The salmon-fishings, in the 

 parish of Govan, below Glasgow, were let, for the first 

 time, upwards of fifty years ago, for the sum of thirty 

 pounds. Immediately afterwards, the rent rose until it 

 reached three hundred and twenty* six pounds annually ; 

 but since 1812, it has greatly fallen, and at present does 

 not exceed sixty pounds per annum. It is a singular 

 circumstance, that salmon and their fry have occa- 



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