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next class of the population comprises the boys and
girls between ten and seventeen years of age. These
are regular in business, and mild and engaging in their
manners. The adult inhabitants of New Lanark are
clean, healthy, and sober. Intoxication, the parent
of so many vices, and of so much misery, is almost
unknown ; the consequence of which is, that they are
all well clad, and well fed, and their dwellings are
clean and inviting ; and in this well regulated colony,
where almost every thing is made, wanted by either
the manufactory ox its inhabitants, no cursing or
swearing is any where to be heard. There are no
quarrelsome men, nor brawling women."
The parish of Lanark is between 4 and 5 miles in
length, stretching along the northern bank of the
Clyde, and about three in breadth. The greatest
part is flat and capable of culture, but in the vicinity
of Lanark, extremely undulated into ridges and hal-
lows. For more than three miles along the Clyde,
the banks are high, precipitous, and rocky, fringed
with natural wood, and forming, with the falls of the
river, the most picturesque scenery. The arable soil
is various, partly light, and partly clay loam, on va-
rious bottoms. Coal, Lime-stone, and Free-stone,
are every where to be found.
A description of the " Falls of the Clyde*' is not
our province, they have often been powerfully deli-
neated, — suffice it to say here, that the Clyde, as a
commercial river, is the first in Scotland, and yields
to none in beautiful views and picturesque scenery ;
among the majestic and romantic, must always be
included the Falls of Bonyton, Stonebyres, and Corra
Linn, in the neighbourhood of Lanark. From the