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turbulent eddies which, the foaming billows make, 

 and which impress the imagination with a deep 

 sense of awfulness and grandeur. 



Salmon and salmon-trout are found in the Clyde 

 below the falls. The fishing is generally pretty 

 good for some distance below the last fall, and the 

 country improves very much in appearance. The 

 banks of the river become better clothed in timber 

 and brushwood ; and the land for some distance from 

 its bed presents an aspect of great fertility, and a 

 consummate skill in husbandry. There are many 

 delightful landscapes which cannot fail to take hold 

 of the fancy of the tourist and man of taste. 



The Nathan Water enters the Clyde about six 

 miles below Lanark, and will afford the angler some 

 sport when its waters are in order, after a summer 

 freshet. The stream rises out of the higher grounds 

 on the confines of Dumfriesshire, and it receives 

 several small feeders, in which fine trout are occa- 

 sionally taken with worm, even in hot and dry 

 weather, when the waters are both clear and 

 shallow. 



The Nathan forms a junction with the Logan at 

 Cleuchbrae. The streams of the main water after 

 this run deep and narrow in many localities ; and 

 the precipitous sides of the rocks on its banks are 

 richly decorated with the stately oak, the fragrant 

 birch, and the tapering mountain ash. 



The Clyde, below the entrance of the Nathan, and 

 as far as the palace of Hamilton, presents many 

 stretches of water of great fishing capabilities. 



