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| | Rambles Round Glasgow - Cardonald and Crookston (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Among these are the handsome wood crane’s-bill (geranium sylvaticum), several stately species of thistle, flinging their snowy locks to the passing breeze, and the rough burr-reed with its green sword-like leaves guarding the shallows of the streamlet, and forming an impervious shade for the water-hen. |
 | | In the reign of James the Sixth, Walter Stewart, Prior of Blantyre, was lord of Cardonald. |
 | | At a short distance to the north, on a bend of the Cart, are the extensive meal mills of Cardonald, with a group of cottages and kail-yards, occupied apparently by the operatives engaged in the establishment. |
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