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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: EGBERT DICK. CHAPTER I. TULLIBODY. The village of Tullibody stands upon a rising ground situated between the windings of the Forth and the Devon, in Clackmannanshire, Scotland. The Devon takes its rise among the burns and rivulets which flow down from the Ochil Hills. At the upper part of the river, some of the most romantic scenery in Scotland is to be found. At the Caldron Linn the Devon forms a series of cascades, which rush down through precipitous rocks into almost unseen depths. Boiling about in the Caldrons, it passes with a violent noise under the Eumblin' Brig, which spans the rocks about a hundred and twenty feet above the bed of the river. Another affluent of the Devon comes down from the Ochils at Castle Campbell?Castle of Gloom, as it used to be called?a ruined building occupying a wild and romantic situation on the summit of a high and almost insulated rock. The mount on which it is situated is nearly encompassed on all sides by thick bosky woods; and the mountain rivulets which tumble down through 2 THE DEVON. the chasms on either side, become united at the base. The whole of the scenes about the upper Devon are of the most romantic kind, and are strikingly different from all other Scottish scenery. As the river winds out from its rocky bed below the Caldron Linn, it enters the beautiful open valley which runs along the foot of the Ochils, taking on its way the rivulets which flow down from the mountains. It runs westward near Dollar, Tillicoultry, Alva, and Menstrie; then, winding sharp round towards the south near Tulli- body, it joins the Forth at Cambus, a little below the ruins of Cambuskenneth Abbey. Among his many beautiful verses descriptive of the rivers of Scotland, Burns has not forgotten the Devon: ? How pleasant the banks of...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217868754 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217868754 |
| Weight | 0.85 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.59 In |
| List Price | $19.84 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 260 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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