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SIXTH REPORT — 1836. 



Another proof of the increase of trade from the improvements on the 

 river will be found in the duties paid at the Custom-house, as exliibited 

 in the following table : 



Amount of Customs Duties collected at Glasgow in years ending 5 th 

 January. 



Steam Vessels which sailed from Glasgow in 1831 and 1835. 



ABSTRACT. 



In 1836 there are 75 steam vessels plying from Glasgow, some of 

 them as long as frigates of the first class. 



Intercourse with Glasgow. — The intercourse with Glasgow by coaches, 

 steam boats, track boats, and railroads is so great that it almost exceeds 

 belief. As several of the coaches and steam-boats depart and arrive 

 more than once a day, and the mail coaches every day, the following 

 may be taken as a low average of passengers by stage coaches and steam- 

 boats, while the others are from the books of the respective companies. 

 In 1834 Dr. Cleland pubhshed the names and destinations of 61 stage 

 coaches which arrived and departed during 313 lawful days, each avera- 

 ging 12 passengers. This gave 458, 232 in the year. By 37 steam-boats 

 25 passengers each, 579,050. By the swift boats on the Forth and Clyde 

 Na^dgation and Union Canal, 91,975. By the hght iron boats on the 

 Paisley Canal, 307,275. By the boats on the Monkland Canal, 31,784 ; 

 and by the Glasgow and Garnkirk Railroad, 118,882. These together 

 make the gross number of persons passing and repassing to Glasgow 

 yearly amount to 1,587,198. A number of these leave Glasgow and 

 return to it on the same day. 



