Edinburgh-Bathgate-Glasgow.

Leaving Edinburgh, on the right, Corstorphin Hill with its villas described p. 44.

Miles.

4 Corstorphin village-old church, on the left.

6 Gogar House.

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Cross the Almond river by a bridge. On the right Newliston House (Hog).

Kirkhill, on the right.

13 Uphall Inn,

19 BATHGATE, a manufacturing village.

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West Craigs Inn.

34 Airdrie, a manufacturing village. Passing Airdrie is seen the Monkland Canal.

44 GLASGOW.

Edinburgh to Falkirk and Glasgow.

See description, p. 45, to Falkirk.

After passing this town, the road to Glasgow crosses the Canal at Camelon.

Miles.

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Loanhead toll. On the left, Underwood House, Knockhead House. On the right, Mount Riddel and Merchiston. 32 Cumbernauld. Cumbernauld House (Lord Elphinston). 39 Bedlay. Frankfield House. 46 GLASGOW.

On the left Park House.

GLASGOW.

Glasgow is a large and flourishing manufacturing city, surpassing Edinburgh in amount of population and wealth and commercial enterprise, as much as Edinburgh outstrips Glasgow in picturesque situation, and the elegance and grandeur of its architecture. Glasgow is of considerable antiquity, and is said to owe its origin to St Kentigern or St Mungo, who founded a bishopric here in 560. Afterwards William the Lion erected it into a burgh of barony, and James

V. by charter constituted it a royal burgh in the year 1611. The city is built on the banks of the river Clyde, the greater proportion of the town on the sloping declivity of the eastern side, the more modern streets on the valley of the western banks, both sides being connected by several elegant bridges.

A long spacious street, the Trongate, occupies the centre of the city, while many others diverge at right angles on each side.

The Cathedral, now occupied as the High Church, is one of the few Gothic edifices which escaped destruction at the time of the Reformation. It is a large venerable building, situated at the eastern end of the High Street, and was founded in 1123 by John Achaius, Bishop of Glasgow. It is upwards of 300 feet in length, and has two great square towers, one of which is 225 feet high. The arched vault below the Inner Church is the place of worship described so vividly in the novel of Rob Roy. Adjoining the Cathedral, on an eminence,

A Cemetery has been formed and beautifully laid out in walks and shrubbery. Here is a monument to the memory of Knox the Scottish Reformer.

The College stands on the east side of the High Street; it is an old building, extehding 300 feet in front, and forming a square court behind, in which are the class-rooms. The college is the oldest institution of the kind in Scotland except St Andrew's, having been founded in 1450 by Bishop Turnbull. It owed its first endowments to the noble family of Hamilton. James VI. granted a new charter and some valuable endowments. As now constituted, it consists of a Chancellor, Rector, Dean of Faculty, Principal, and

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eighteen Professors. The average number of students is about 1200. Besides a library containing a valuable collection of books, there is attached to the University

The Hunterian Museum. This splendid collection of anatomy, natural history, coins, pictures, &c. was bequeathed to the college by Dr William Hunter, with £8000 to erect a building for its reception. The building is an elegant structure, and is situated behind the square of the university. The public are admitted to the museum on paying one shilling.

The Observatory, which contains some good instruments, is situated on an eminence east of the college garden.

The Botanic Garden occupies six acres of ground a mile and a half west of the college. It was commenced about twelve years ago, and now contains a variety of rare plants. Strangers are admitted by an order from a proprietor.

The Andersonian Institution was founded by Professor Anderson in 1796, for the purpose of affording instruction in science to the operative classes, and took the lead in introducing such establishments which have now become general over the country.

Churches. The principal churches in the city are the High Church or Cathedral, St John's, St George's, St David's, and the Roman Catholic Chapel.

The Town Hall is an elegant building situated on the north side of the Trongate. The walls of the hall contain numerous trophies and portraits of British Sovereigns, commencing with James I. of England, and other portraits of eminent men.

The Tontine Coffeeroom is a spacious room con

tained within the piazzas of the Town House; formerly it was the chief resort of merchants.

The Royal Exchange. This is a most splendid building, erected a few years ago, at the east end of Queen Street. There is a spacious hall supported by magnificent pillars, and elegantly fitted up as a reading-room and place of resort for mercantile men. Strangers are freely admitted without any introduc

tion.

The Green. An extensive lawn stretching along the banks of the river is so called, and affords an airy promenade to the inhabitants. At the west end of the green are

The New Jail and Public Offices, forming a square building at the foot of Saltmarket Street.

The Royal Infirmary occupies an elevated situation at the north end of the High Street, contiguous to the Cathedral.

There are three elegant stone bridges over the Clyde and a wooden one.

· The Broomielaw is the quay where the shipping of the Clyde comes to. It has been of late much enlarged and improved.

The population of Glasgow in 1831 amounted to 202,426. This is a rapid increase from 1780, when the number of inhabitants was only 42,800.

The great bulk of the inhabitants of the city and surrounding villages are employed in the cotton manufactures. The principal of these establishments are well worthy the inspection of strangers. An extensive foreign and home shipping trade is carried on at Glasgow. Numerous steam-boats and other vessels land at the Broomielaw; but Greenock and Port-Glasgow,

situated farther down the Clyde, may be considered the chief ports of the city.

Paisley is a thriving manufacturing town in Renfrewshire, 7 miles from Glasgow. It has a population of 57,466, chiefly employed in cotton-spinning. This town is of great antiquity. In 1160, a priory was founded here, which was afterwards raised to an abbey, containing monks of the order of Clugny. "The Black Book of Paisley," containing a chronicle of public events, was written by these monks. The ruins of the church of the abbey now remaining, point out its original splendour. Near the church is a chapel, used as the cemetery of the family of Abercorn. Here there is a very powerful echo.

Elderslie, the birth-place of the renowned Wallace, is two miles south-west of Paisley. Hawkhead, the seat of the Earl of Glasgow, is also about two miles from Paisley on the Glasgow road. A mile farther, on the right of the same road, is Cardonnell Castle (Lord Blantyre), and near this on an eminence

Cruickstone Castle, celebrated as the residence of Queen Mary after her marriage with Darnley.