About eight or ten miles below Stonebyres, the last fail on the Clyde, the banks of the river, receding to a more than usual distance, leave a great extent of plain or level ground. .... The springs are all from the surface, and are formed by the intervention of clay and sand strata, the former holding water, and the latter permitting its free passage. The process of filtration is also promoted by the fissures in the metals, and the looser and more porous materials with ...
About eight or ten miles below Stonebyres, the last fail on the Clyde, the banks of the river, receding to a more than usual distance, leave a great extent of plain or level ground. .... The springs are all from the surface, and are formed by the intervention of clay and sand strata, the former holding water, and the latter permitting its free passage. The process of filtration is also promoted by the fissures in the metals, and the looser and more porous materials with ...
Isabel WEIR, daughter of James Weir of Stonebyres. [SML]. + 3m. 1607, Jean AUCHINLECK, a daughter of Sir George Auchinleck of Balmanno, a senator of the College of Justice. * 1598?In 1567, a proclamation was issued against the wearing ...