Clyde

(klīd,) a river of Scotland, rising in S. Lan arks hire, and emptying near Glasgow (where it becomes navigable) into a large æstu ary called the Frith of Clyde. Its length is abt. 120 m., and a cataract known as the Falls of Clyde, 230 feet in height, occurs in its upper course, near Lanark. Clyde, COLIN CAMPBELL, LORD, an English general, B. 1792. In 1848-52, he fought through the Indian campaigns, and in 1854 commanded the brigade of Scots Highlanders in the battles of the Crime an War. In 1857, as commander-in-chief in India, he saved Lucknow, and quenched the Sepoy Mutiny. D. 1863. Clyde, a village of New York, in Galen township, Wayne co.,186 miles N.W. of Albany, on the Clyde river; pop. 2,735. Clymer, GEORGE, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, B. in Philadelphia, 1739; D. 1813. [s. 199]