130 SCOTLAND ILLUSTRATED. 



and the luxury of man, and to name every port in the known world where com- 

 mercial enterprise has ever penetrated.* 



The streets of Glasgow are spacious, admirably well paved, the houses lofty, 

 and, in many instances, exhibiting great architectural elegance. Of this the 

 Trongate, a street upwards of a mile in length, presents numerous examples, 

 and, in the busy multitude with which it is thronged, will remind the stranger 

 of the metropolitan thoroughfares of Cheapside, or the Strand. Of the public 

 buildings, which are numerous, many present fine specimens of the different 

 orders of architecture. Our restricted limits, however, will only admit a brief 

 notice of the Cathedral and University. The .Cathedral, like so many others 

 in the kingdom, traces its foundation to the pious King David, in the beginning 

 of the twelfth century, who appointed his tutor, or chaplain, Johannes Achaius, 

 to the episcopate. To the present building, however, numerous additions were 

 made in the progress of time, till the Reformation, which diverted the church 

 revenues into a new channel and left the original design unfinished. The first 

 bishopf was followed by twenty-five successors, when, in the person of Bishop 

 Blackader, the see was erected into an archbishopric. After this period, four 

 Catholic archbishops followed in succession ; and after the Reformation, ten 

 others of the Episcopalian church, when the Presbyterian religion became that 

 of the nation. The church was then divided, and now forms two distinct places 

 of worship. The interior, as seen in the engraving annexed, is of noble design 

 and elaborate workmanship, and had the good fortune to escape the popular 

 fury by which so many other shrines were mutilated or destroyed. 



" Huge columns heave to a stupendous height 

 Their gothic grandeur's vast unwieldy weight ; 

 The pile the rich unpolished genius shews 

 Of that wild daring age in which it rose." WILSON. 



The University of Glasgow associates with its history many names which 

 reflect lustre on their age and country. It had anciently several remarkable 

 peculiarities in its constitution, and conferred on its members various important 



During the year 1 834, twenty-seven thousand vessels passed Renfrew ferry ; an i at some periods in the 

 same year, between twenty and thirty passed in one hour. Slat. 1837. 



f A.D. 1300. Edward I. of England took upon him to appoint Anthony Beik to the see of Glasgow, 

 whilst Earl Percy usurped the military government of the western part of Scotland, and took possession of 

 the episcopal palace. The renowned Wallace, who was then at Ayr, determined on ridding his country of 

 the usurpers ; and, supported by several patriotic individuals and their adherents, gave battle to Percy 

 in the High Street, nearly where the college now stands, when Wallace, with one stroke of his sword, cleft 

 Earl Percy's head, and put his whole army to the rout. The following year King Edward offered obla- 

 tions at the shrine of St. Mungo, in the church, on learning thai Drummond, a Scottish knight, had beeri 

 taken prisoner by Sir John Seagrave. 



