90^ Scientific Intelligence. — Statistics. 



at the Broomielaw, in 1792, by Mr Robert Muir, for Messrs 

 Scott, Stevenson, and Company, afterwards Tod and Stevenson. 

 In 1831 there are 356 steam-engines in the city and suburbs 

 applicable to manufactures, collieries, stone-quarries, and steam- 

 boats. These engines combine a force equal to 7,366 horse 

 power. 



Stage-Coaches, — In 1763, with the exception of two coaches 

 which ran between Edinburgh and Leith, there was only one 

 stage-coach in Scotland. It set out once a month from Edin- 

 burgh to London, and was from twelve to sixteen days upon 

 the road. About that time a heavy coach, drawn by four 

 horses in good weather and by six in bad, commenced running 

 between Edinburgh and Glasgow three times a-week. In a 

 short time it ran every day, and was from eleven to twelve 

 hours upon the road. At the time this carriage started, there 

 was no other public conveyance from Glasgow. In April 1831 

 there were sixty-one public carriages which left Glasgow daily. 

 These carriages were drawn by 183 horses, and 671 were kept 

 for completing the journeys. The carriages accommodated 

 1,010 passengers. 



Steam-Boats. — Till Henry Bell launched the Comet on the 

 Clyde at Glasgow, in January 1812, there were no steam-boats 

 plying on any river in Europe. In 1828 there were fifty-nine 

 steam-boats on the Clyde; tonnage 8,283, average 140f| 

 Since 1828 several additional boats have plied on the Clyde, 

 among others, in the Liverpool trade. The Glasgow, 286 tons, 

 propelled by two engines of 50 horse-power each. The Liver- 

 pool, 315 tons, propelled by two engines of 75 horse-power each. 



'* Number of Persons estimated to depart from, and arrive 

 in, Glasgow, by public conveyances, every lawful day, — viz. 



Forty-six steam-boats carrying passengers, each averaging twen 



passengers, 



Coaches carrying 1010 passengers, from which deduct one-third, say 673 

 Canal tract-boats, per Annual Reports, 



liumber of persons departing from Glasgow every lawful day, 

 Number of persons arriving in Glasgow every lawful day, 



156 



1,749 

 1,749 



3,498 



Total arriving and departing daily, 

 Number of persons arriving in, or departing from, Glasgow in the 



course of the year by public conveyances, . . 1,094,874 



