APPENDIX, N-^. IV. 



COMMERCI. 



and there are in tlie neii hbourhood fereral iron- 

 works for making cannon and all other articles of 

 call; iron, which, taken coileftively, are perhaps 

 icarccly inferior in importance to the Carron works 

 The works for window glafs, bottle glafs, and or- 

 namental glafs, are cxtcnfivc and thriving. Sugar- 

 baking, making, and brewing, are old eftablifhed 

 concerns. But it would be almoft as difficult to 

 particularize all the manufadlures of Glafgow as 

 thofe of London : and it may fuffice to fay, that 

 nianufaSures of almoft every kind are carried on 

 with fpirit and aftivity, and generally in joint 

 flocks by companies, or, as they are generally call- 

 ed here, concents, under the management of one 

 6r more of the partners ; and that the manufac- 

 tures requiring fire have the vaft advantage of coals 

 clofe to the city. As the river, which has been 

 deepened about thirty years ago, ftill admits only 

 coalters and fmall craft to come up to the city, the 

 merchants load and unload their vefTcls at Port 

 Glafgow, a town belonging to the corporation of 

 the city. The carriage between the city and the 

 p<u-t gives employment to a numerous fet of water- 

 men, who poffefs above 7,000 tuns of fmall flat- 

 bottomed floops, called gabarls. 



Glaslough, [ATor.. I.) avillage on the Black- 

 water, thriving with the linen manufaflure. 



Gloucester, an epifcopal city, and the capi- 

 tal of the (hire of the fame name, is fltuated on the 

 eaft fide of the Severn, by which, and the rirers 

 connefted with it, it has a very extenfive inland 

 trade. Pins are almoft the only article manufac- 

 tured here, and the demand for them has been 

 much reduced by the change of the faftiions of fe- 

 male drefs. For the noble canal from this city, 

 along the fide of the Severn, fee V. iv, p. 283. 



GoDALMiNG, ^^ur.^J a town on the river Wey, 

 which carries barges from the Thames up to it, and 

 no higher, has manufaftures of kerfeys, llockings, 

 and paper. 



GoRBALS, CLan. S.J a village on the fouth 

 bank of the Clyde, which may be called the South- 

 wark of Glafgow, being fubjeCl to that city, and 

 partaking of its trade. 



GORDONSBURGH. See MaR YBU RG H. 



GospORT, (Hamp. E.) a large town oppofite 

 to Portfniouth, and, like it, fubfifts by the nav)'. 

 Many veffels are built here ; and in time of peace 

 there is fome intercourfe with France. 



GouRDON, [Kink. S.) a village wirfi a very in- 

 ditferent little harbour, and fome fmall floops em- 

 ployed in bringing lime and coal for the adjacent 

 country. The filhery of the place is almoft ruined 

 by the defertion of the fiih, efpecially the haddocks, 

 fuice the year : "Sz, when the beds of niuft'eU, the 

 chief article of their food, were deftroyed by a 

 great ftorm. 



GouROCK, {Rer/. S.) a village with a good 

 and deep harbour. This place was apparently the 

 original ieat of the herring trade in the Firth of 

 Clyde, and is ftill the ftation of a herring filher)', 



which, with the procrfs of curing and 'inoking, 

 and a rope-work, conftitute the chief trade of the 

 place. 



Grangemouth, (Stir I. S.) z village erefled in 

 the year 1777 on a point between the mouth of the 

 River Carron and the end of the great canal. The 

 harbour is capable of receiving a good number of 

 large ftiips, and, by its connexion with the canal, 

 has got much of thf* trade of importing timber, 

 corn, hemp, flax, &c. formerly enjoyed by Borow- 

 ftownnefs and the other harbours in the Firth. A 

 very great coafting trade is alio canied on here. 



Gravesend, [Kenf,E.) a town on the Thames, 

 chiefly fupported by fupplying neceflaries to the 

 veffels, which, whether outward or homeward 

 bound, generally anchor oppofite to it. Almoft 

 the only manufaflure of the place is fliipbuilding. 



Grays Thurrock, [Elf. E.) a town on the 

 Thames, with fome intercourfe with London by 

 rejjular veffels. 



Greenhithe, [Kent, E.) a village with a trade 

 in lime. 



Grefsock, (Renf. S.J a well-built and flourifh- 

 ing town on the River Clyde, has a good harbour 

 with 18 feet water at fpring tides, formed by three 

 piers projcfting into the channel 5 but the fpace 

 being too fmall, additional piers have been built to 

 enlarge the harbour. Before the American war 

 the fhipping belonged moftly o the merchants of 

 Glafgow : but now the merchants o! Greenock 

 have fo far extended their commerce, that they 

 employ on their own account many more veffels 

 than then belonged to the port ; their fliipping in 

 the year 1800 amounting to ^5,057 tuns, being 

 more than any other port in Scotland, and inferior 

 only to London, Liverpool, Newcaftle, Sunder- 

 land, Hull, Whitehaven, and Whitby, in Eng- 

 land. The inhabitants are all lefs or more tngaged 

 in trade with America, the Weft-Indies, New- 

 foundland, the Baltic, Ireland, and the coafts of 

 Great Britain, or in the herring fifliery : and 

 the only manufaftures are fugar-baking, (hipbuild- 

 ing, fail-cloth, cordage, and the other branches 

 connefted with fhippingi 



Grsenwich, (Kent, E.) a handfome and pleaf- 

 ant town on the fouth bank of the Thames, dif- 

 tinguifhed by its magnificent hofpital for fuperan- 

 nuated and wounded feamen belonging to the royal 

 navy, and the obfervatoi-y on Greenwich hill, the 

 point from which Britifh geographers and navigat- 

 ors reckon the longitude. 



Grimsby, (Line. E.J a well-built town at the 

 entranee of the Humber, retains but little of its 

 former importance, the harbour being fo much 

 choked up as to admit only fmall veffels. Larger 

 ones, however, lie in the road-flead, which is good 

 and fafe, and thereby the town has ftill fome trade. 

 Guilford, { Stir. E.) a pleafant town on the 

 river Wey once the feat of a great manufacture of 

 cloths, known by its name, (ee V. i, p. 604) 

 and has a very fmall clothing trade ftill rtmaining. 



