NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 105 



lege, which they call an university ; but I'm at 

 a stand what to call it, where one single college 

 compleats a university. 



Now, let us descend to describe the splendor 

 and gaity of this city of Glasgow, which surpas- 

 seth most, if not all the corporations in Scot- 

 land. Here it is you may observe four large 

 fair streets, modell'd, as it were, into a spacious 

 quadrant ; in the centre whereof their market- 

 place is fix'd ; near unto which stands a stately 

 tolbooth, a very sumptuous, regulated, uniform 

 fabrick, large and lofty, most industriously and 

 artificially carved from the very foundation to 

 the superstructure, to the great admiration of 

 strangers and travellers. But this state-house, 

 or tolbooth, is their western prodigy, infinitely 

 excelling the model and usual built of town- 

 halls ; and is, without exception, the paragon of 

 beauty in the west ; whose compeer is no where 

 to be found in the north, should you rally the 

 rarities of all the corporations in Scotland. 



Here the reader (it's possible) may think I 

 hyperbolize ; but let him not mistake himself, 

 for 1 write no ambiguities : Truth stands naked 

 in plain simplicity ; and partiality I abhor as a 

 base imposture. He that reads my relation, and 

 the morals of this famous Glasgow, will vindi- 

 cate my description, and place the fault to him 

 that invents the fable ; for it's opposite to my 



