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Plate II.
FALL ON THE RIVER TILT.AMONGST
the many rivers, which the rich and fertile county of Perth abounds in, none
perhaps affords
scenes of a more picturesque nature than the FENDER. This little
river rises in one of the mountainous
districts of that county: and, after a devious course of no great
length, falls into the Tilt, a short distance
above the junction of that stream with the Garry.
Rivers, which pass
through a very uneven or mountainous country, acquire a very
different character
from those, that are found in more level situations. Most of those
in North Britain, taking their rise, either
in some extensive Loch, or from the numerous rills and springs on
the sides of mountains, are innavigable,
rapid, and unequal in their depths: sometimes pent up between
rocks, and tumbling over them into an
abyss of several hundred feet, and thus forming the most beautiful
natural cascades; then perhaps assuming,
for a short distance, an even, silvery, surface; and again, from
fresh obstacles, and greater declivity, rolling,
with increased velocity, through some narrow glen. While those of
South Britain possess, in general, very
different features, and are applied to very different purposes.
Boats, barges, and larger shipping, crowd
the Thames, the Medway, the Severn, and the Humber; while a mill or
a salmon leap are the most pro-
fitable uses (if we except agriculture) to which the Fender, the
Tilt, or most other rocky rivers are applied.
What however they lose in utility, and, perhaps, grandeur, they
gain in beauty and picturesqueness.
The view here given is
not properly a fall of the Fender, but of a mill-stream, or, as it
is called, a mill-
race, which branches off from the Fender about a mile before it
joins the Tilt; and after working several
mills on the estate of John Robertson, Esq. falls into the Tilt
lower down than the mouth of the parent river.
This, therefore, is the Fall of the Mill-race into the Tilt, and is
in the grounds of Mr. Robertson, whose
estate extends over both sides of the Fender, and is divided from
the duke of Athol's by the Tilt. The spot,
however, whence this Fall is seen to most advantage, is in the
Duke's grounds, and more particularly near a
small rustic building, called the Heather's Seat, which is seen in
this View on the left, with the Mill-race
Fall opposite, and the Tilt running along the
foreground.
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