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REV. THOMAS BROWN ON THE OLD RIVER TERRACES 



side of the river, near the farm-house of Clarkton. The highest terrace there 

 shown passes on to the railway station, and has a great part of the town of 

 Doune built on it. It is the same also which may be traced across the river 

 into the grounds of Blair-Drummond, where, in the view immediately opposite 



Sketch 12. — On the Keltie, near Gambusmore. 



Doune Castle, the three levels are distinctly seen ; and here a point is reached 

 of great importance in regard to these terraces. The Carse of Stirling, lying 



Sketch 13. — On the Teith above Deanston. 



between the Forth and Teith, begins to spread out its flat level, and the highest 

 terrace gradually descends and coalesces with the second, just what we saw 

 take place on the Earn, when approaching the Carse lands in the neighbour- 

 hood of the sea ; and yet all the way some traces of the threefold system may 

 here and there be found. Even at Kildean, near Stirling, and well within tide 



