Lanark, Renfrew, and Dumbarton: They amounted, 
im 1814, to 1172 persons, viz, 367 debtors, 525 male 
criminals, 239 female criminals, and 41 deserters: The 
whole expence of these buildings, viz. £34,811, has been 
defrayed from the funds of the corporation. ~ 
» The foundation-stone of the Lunatic Asylum, situa- 
ted between the Royal Infirmary and the Glasgow Ob- 
servatory, was laid with great masonic solemnity, in 
1810. Modern architects seem very generally to have 
aimed at ion, rather by the invention than the 
ions of their designs. Little aware of the dig- 
nity arising from the graceful diminution of columns, 
from ee —— narrow than wide, from 
_ harmony details, from congruity in all the 
‘parts, in reference to each other and oF Hi hls, they 
must be astonished at Palladio’s fame, and unable to com- 
prehend how his buildings, which are for the most part 
small in their dimensions, and without any pretensions 
to novelty or ea in their forms, should so long 
have charmed the world, and at every repeated inspec- 
tion afforded increased delight. 
. Inthis respect more perhaps than any other, Mr 
Stark bore a nearer resemblance to inrferchitnee Uren 
cient than of modern times. By constant and - 
ful er 3 of their works, he’seemed to have imbibed the 
spirit of the Greeks, while, by the powers of his genius, 
he adapted their principles to the wants, manners, and 
opinions of his countrymen. In the lunatic asylum, he 
’ ‘had less opportunity than usual of pleasing, by the pro- 
eae of the mouldings, or the richness of the details ; 
‘or eve ornament would have been improper, 
and the situation of the building rendered its effect from’ 
a distance much more important, than its beauty on a 
near a . Yet even here, he studied the details 
with the utmost care, convinced that the grandeur of 
the form is never independent of a due propor- 
tion in the minuter parts. 
On considering the interior arrangements of a luna- 
tic asylum, it appeared to him that wards, projected di- 
‘agonally from a central building, would afford every 
facility, both for the superintendance and classification 
of the patients. Such a form had been little attempted, 
and never executed with a pleasing effect. The diffi- 
culties presented by it, Mr Stark hen admirably sur- 
mounted. By a just proportion of the diagonal wards 
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ant, physician, and committee ; and the whole range Glasgow. 
of store-rooms, servants’ apartments, kitchens, baths, 
&e. Each class of patients has separate entries to the 
subdivided airing grounds, which are laid out in gravel 
walks, flower-plots, and shrubberies, The eating-rooms, 
parlours, and bed-rooms, for the higher ranks of pa- 
tients, are spacious and genteelly furnished: the close 
rooms for that class are 11 feet 6 inches long, 8 feet 
wide, and 10 feet 6 inches high ; and for the paupers, 
11 feet 6 inches long, 6 feet 6 inches wide, and 10 feet 
6 inches high ; each ward having a gallery 70 feet long 
by 7 feet 6 inches wide, for exercise in bad weather. 
The several apartments of’ the asylum are rendered com- 
fortable by the introduction of rarefied air, generated 
in the sunk storey, and communicated by concealed 
flues. 
In 1810, the foundation stone of the Glas; 
vatory was laid on the south side of Garnet Hill, situa- 
ted a little to the north-west of George’s Square. The 
funds for this institution were raised by subscription of 
£ 20, transferable shares. The building is divided into 
three compartments: the first contains the instruments 
for scientific observations ; the second those for ular 
observations; the third is fitted up for the accommodation 
of the subscribers, where they have the use of astrono- 
mical instruments, and treatises connected with the 
science. ) 
In the Glasgow observatory, there are a great variety 
of valuable astronomical and meteorological instruments, 
The most remarkable ate, a fourteen and « ten feet tele- 
scope by Herschel; a mural, azimuth, and altitude cir- 
cle, by Troughton ; a sidereal and mean time clock by 
Hardy ; and a chronometer by Arnold. 
The Lyceum is situated on the east side of South Albi. L¥°e"™- 
on Street. The saloon is 54 by 33 feet, and the adjoining 
library 33 by 22 feet, the whole being elegantly fitted up. 
The saloon is amply supplied with newspapers and pe- 
riodical publications ; and the library is stored with a 
well-chosen collection of books. Strangers are not ad- 
mitted to the Lyceum, without being introduced by a 
subscriber. 
The riding-school, which was erected by subscription, Riding 
It con- school. 
is situated on the west side of York Street. 
tains two circles of 40 feet each, stables, and a gallery 
for s tors. 
w obser- Glasgow 
observatory. 
to the central buildings, by raising over the latter a cir- 
cular attic, and crowning the whole witha noble dome, 
he has given the asylum a character of blended elegance 
The buildingsfor Anderson’s institution are situated on Anderson's 
the west side of John Street. The ashlar front is relieved Institution 
with mouldings, terminating in a ballustrade and pedi- Building». 
and dignity, which perhaps sets it above all his other 
designs, and, simple and unadorned as it is, entitles it 
to'a most eminent place among the works of art. So 
noble indeed is this design, that the managers could 
searcely persuade the public, that, on erecting it, an ex- 
travagant sum of money had not been squandered on 
external decorations. Its effect is now a little injured 
by the garden walls, having been raised higher than the 
architect intended, and still more by a recent building, 
which interrupts its finest point of view ; but wherever 
it isseen, it must excite feelings of the highest admira- 
tion ; and even if in course of' time all views of it as a 
whole should be i bythe extension of the town, 
the dome will always remain one of the greatest orna- 
ments of the city. 
' The asylum and airing nds cover about three 
acres and a half. In the Ssttibntion, care has been 
taken to class the higher and lower ranks of both sexes 
according to the frantic, ordinary, or convalescent state 
of the disease. The buildings contain 136 apartments 
_ for the use of the patients, exclusive of those appro- 
housekeeper, apothecary, superintend- 
ment: the roof being formed into a dome, has a very 
fine effect. The great hall is of a spherical form, and 
seated for 500 persons, ‘The library, laboratory, com- 
mittee, and apparatus apartments, are fitted up with 
every convenience. 
The office, situated on the east side of South Al. 
bion Street, has an ashlar front, relieved in the centre, 
and terminating in a pediment. At one end of the 
building there is a covered way, and at the other a spa- 
cious lobby, for the accommodation of the public. A 
range of windows-are so placed in the lobby, that per- 
sons having boxes in the office, can see if they have let~ 
ters before the delivery commences. 
The Magdalene Asylum for the reception of females, Magdaten- 
ths of virtue, is situa~ Asylum. 
who are desirousto return to the 
teda littleto theeast of the LunaticAsylum: It was erect- 
edin 1812, and is supported by voluntary contribution. 
The building consists of three stories; the front is di- 
vided into three com ents, the end ones termina- 
ting in pediments. is establishment is completed 
with every suitable accommodation, for the matron, the 
committee, and 34 penitents. The chapel, exclusive 
Post office. 
