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The Firth flows another 105 km (65 miles), initially west then with a sudden turn to the south to meet the so-called North Channel, part of the Atlantic Ocean, at the rocky islet, Ailsa Craig, off the coast of [[Ayrshire]]. Large scale dredging of the waterway between Port Glasgow near [[Greenock]] and Glasgow itself during the 18th century brought ocean-going vessels to Glasgow, and made the river a conduit for much the industrial produce of south-western Scotland on its way to the New World, and the area the site of a booming ship-building industry. The first sea-going steamboat, Bell's ''Comet'' was built at Port Glasgow in 1812.
The Firth flows another 105 km (65 miles), initially west then with a sudden turn to the south to meet the so-called North Channel, part of the Atlantic Ocean, at the rocky islet, Ailsa Craig, off the coast of [[Ayrshire]]. Large scale dredging of the waterway between Port Glasgow near [[Greenock]] and Glasgow itself during the 18th century brought ocean-going vessels to Glasgow, and made the river a conduit for much the industrial produce of south-western Scotland on its way to the New World, and the area the site of a booming shipbuilding industry. The first sea-going steamboat, Bell's ''Comet'' was built at Port Glasgow in 1812.
(The Old Celtic name, possibly meaning “cleanse”, may have derived from the [[Indo-European]] ''clou'', and was also possibly the name of a river goddess. The [[Roman]] historian [[Tacitus]] refers to it as the ''Clota''. It became the Gaelic ''Clutha''. Today it is the ''Cluaidh''. The word “Firth” used by the Scots to describe an estuary or arm of the sea derives from the Old Norse. It has the same root as “fiord”.)
(The Old Celtic name, possibly meaning “cleanse”, may have derived from the [[Indo-European]] ''clou'', and was also possibly the name of a river goddess. The [[Roman]] historian [[Tacitus]] refers to it as the ''Clota''. It became the Gaelic ''Clutha''. Today it is the ''Cluaidh''. The word “Firth” used by the Scots to describe an estuary or arm of the sea derives from the Old Norse. It has the same root as “fiord”.)