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RIVER CLYDE

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 354 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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RIVER See also:
CLYDE (Welsh, Clwyd, " far heard," " strong," the Glotta of Tacitus)
CLYDE, COLIN CAMPBELL, BARON (1792-1863)
CLYDE . breakwaters, furnish the necessary commercial requirements for See also:

sea-going vessels, as for example at See also:

MARSEILLES

Marseilles (fig. 5), See also:

GENOA (anc. Genua, Ital. Genova, Fr. GPnes)

Genoa, See also:

Naples and See also:

TRIESTE (Ger. Triest; Slay. Trst; the Roman Tergeste, q.v.)

Trieste. These open basins, however, are precisely the same as closed docks, except for the See also:

ABSENCE (Lat. absentia)

absence of See also:

DOCK

dock See also:

GATES, HORATIO (1728-1806)

gates; and the See also:

ACCOMMODATION (Lat. accommodare, to make fit, from ad, to, cum, with, and modus, measure)

accommodation for See also:

SHIPPING

shipping at the quays See also:

ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round basins in river ports is so frequently supplemented by river quays, that closed docks, open basins and river quays are all naturally included in the See also:

general See also:

CONSIDERATION (from Lat. considerare, to look at closely, examine, generally taken to be from con-, and the base seen in sidus, sideris, a star, the word being supposed to be originally an astrological or astronomical term)

consideration of dock See also:

WORKS

works. required for forming the docks, and enables the excavated materials to be utilized in raising the ground at the sues for sides for quays; and the river furnishes a sheltered pocks. approach channel. Notable instances of these are the docks of the ports of See also:

LONDON

London, See also:

LIVER (O. Eng. lifer; cf. cognate forms, Dutch lever, Ger. Leber, Swed. lefver, &c.; the O. H. Ger. forms are libara, lipora, &c.; the Teut. word has been connected with Gr. i'prap and Lat. jecur)

Liver- See also:

POOL

pool, See also:

South See also:

WALES (Cymru, Gwalia, Cambria)

Wales, See also:

Southampton, See also:

Hull, See also:

BELFAST

Belfast, St Nazaire, Rotter- See also:

dam, See also:

Antwerp and See also:

HAMBURG

Hamburg. Some- times docks are partially ' formed on foreshores reclaimed from estuaries, as at Hull, See also:

GRIMSBY, or GREAT GRIMSBY

Grimsby, See also:

CARDIFF

Cardiff; Liver- pool, See also:

LEITH

Leith and See also:

Havre; whilst at See also:

Bristol, a curved portion of the river See also:

AVON

Avon was appropriated for a 'dock, and a straight cut made for the river. By carrying docks across See also:

sharp bends of tidal See also:

rivers, upper and See also:

LOWER

lower en- 4dnL• trances can be provided, thereby See also:

con- veniently separating the inland and sea-going See also:

TRAFFIC

traffic; ' and of this the London, See also:

Surrey Commercial, See also:

West See also:

India, and See also:

Victoria and See also:

Albert docks are examples on the See also:

THAMES

Thames and See also:

Chatham dockyard on the See also:

MEDWAY

Medway.

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