The engineer Thomas Telford, after surveying the crossing, described it in his report as "one of the most forbidding places at which an important ferry was ever established - a succession of violent cataracts formed in a rocky channel exposed to the rapid rush of a tide which has scarcely an equal".
Thomas Telford, after surveying the crossing, described it in his report as "one of the most perilous locations where a significant ferry was ever established - a series of violent rapids formed in a rocky channel exposed to the rapid flow of a tide that has scarcely an equal".