Devol's Glen, a ravine, traversed by a brook, in Greenock and Port Glasgow parishes, Renfrewshire. Commencing among hills 794 and 682 feet high, and descending 2½ miles north-eastward to the E end of Port Glasgow town, it is rocky, wooded, and romantic. It is flanked, near the head, by a precipice, called Wallace's Leap, over which Sir William Wallace is fabled to have leaped on horseback; and it contains two beautiful though tiny waterfalls, respectively about 20 feet and about 100 feet in leap.
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