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the principal quarters and nearly all the public buildings are to the north 

 of the river. The cathedral, with its beautiful Gothic crypt, is, with the 

 exception of a chnrch in the Orkneys, the only Catholic place of worship in 

 Scotland which escaped destruction at the time of the Reformation. The order 

 to wreck it had been given ; but the citizens, proud of their old church, resisted 

 the iconoclastic zeal of the Calvinistic ministers. In the necropolis at the 



Fig. 1Ô5.— Glasgow. 

 Scale 1 : 70,000. 



1 Mile. 



back of the cathedral has been placed a conspicuous column in memory of John 

 Enox. This venerable pile now stands near the eastern verge of the city, which 

 has not grown up around it, but spread to the westward, in the direction of 



the sea. 



The old university, founded in the fifteenth century, has recently been 

 transferred from its ancient site in the east of the city to the neighbourhood 

 of the West-end Park, and its showy buildings occupy a magnificent position 



