»IE SHAN^SON. 
THE FORTH. 
' «t’ considerable in Scotland, has its 
under Ben Lomond, in the western angle 
and 
runs Eastward to Stirling, near which 
le Teith, and forms Lake Katherine, 
•t flows west by south, and mixes with the 
oritt"-'* ^ wide estuary, called the Firth of Forth. 
1**1^ Berwick, at the moutli of tlie Firth, its 
f windings, is seventy-five miles. It is 
^ Stirling for vessels of eighty tons burthen. 
iV"'** 
, skirted by woods, by fertile and well- 
occasional ancient ruins ; its waters, at 
V"^ Of g ?S themselves from a smalt breadth to tlie 
Lenno.x and Oichill hills rising 
^ank, aftbrd many pleasing and delightfiil 
canal now joins this river to the Clyde. 
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THE TAY. . 
Benmore, on the western 
Of the ’'■®’ ^ north-east to a lake of the same 
^ bein'* beautiful in Scotland, at tlie extremity 
'i 6 y Wie j?*ned by the Lyon, it continues Uie same 
It,* where it receives the waters discharged 
V bv fium the lakes Ericht, under Ben Alar, 
the Tumel. From Logierait it flows 
'V Great and Little Dunkeld, and bends 
Cargil : near Cargil it receives 
,'X turns southward to Perth, 
iiit ^ ^ similar name west- 
'I'lKfi*'® Ge* 'Iself, by-an estuary called the Firth of 
Ocean. This river is navigable for 
’ above Perth ; the lengtli of its course is 
“ Hides. 
the 
tl^'^’Miss^ navigable 
SHANNON. 
rivers of Ireland, the noble 
its preeminence. If the extent of its 
^ '*'* fertility of the fine country it batlies, 
^'Oi| '■ be 'h commerce, and the excellent bay 
'"'*t r;ve':°‘’®l'^ered, it rt.ay fairly rank among the 
of liumne Jt has its origin in Lough 
rope. 
