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August 1829
Floods
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"at six in
the morning the river filled the smithy and extinguished
the fire. The river then set it's stream against the
left bank by the bridge where the beautiful cottage
and luxuriant garden of Alexander Mitchell was. The
river soon swept away the cottage, garden and road,
scooping the ground and gravel out to an immense depth,
cutting off all communication with the west end of the
bridge. Some inhabitants at the
Bridge of Nethy were stupefied. Others removed
their effects"
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Present day
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"The old military
Bridge of Dulsie consisting
of one bold and lofty arch of forty-six feet spanning
the yawning chasm, and a smaller subsidiary is very
picturesque. The flood was very grand where the column
of water was so confined that it filled the lower arch
altogether, and rose in the great
arch to within three feet of the keystone; it was thus
no less than
forty feet above the usual level"
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"....the Bridge
of Carr, the old bridge, long since disused,
was always a picturesque object, but the flood has rendered
it still more so, by entirely removing the remains of
its wing-walls, and leaving it's tall, round-shaped,
skeleton arch, standing thin and meager-like. The inn
stables on the
left, though on the top of the rock, and 10 to 12 yards
back from the brink, would have been carried away, but
for the failure of the old wing-walls, and
the south gable of the inn itself was
very near going"
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"The Bridge
of Sluggan, 32 feet span, was swept away,
and opposite to
that place, the small farm of Inchluin was completely
inundated. The
occupant, a poor old man, of 90 years of age, much
gone in body and mind -
his wife, an old woman - and a younger son, a cripple,
with his wife and
children - were all carried
out from their inundated home by the elder son,
who was the only efficient member of the family. It
was truly afflicting to see
the old man poised upon his son's shoulders, utterly
unconscious of his
danger, in the state of idiocy to which he was reduced,
shouting out with childish joy at his strange and
novel situation"
Now, sadly, Sustrans
have added "temporary" handrails to the
parapet
for the safety of people using it. The good news is
that they have also safeguarded the bridge where it
was being undermined by the changing
course of the river
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