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tageoiis fitiiation, that tliey began inflantly to profecute 
that commerce ; an adiduoiis application to vviiicii, 
greatly contributed to raifc tlic city to the pitch of af¬ 
fluence and fplendour which it now enjoys. The city 
was now greatly enlarged : and as the community were 
fenlible of the inconvenience that attended the want ot 
a fufficiency of water in the river for carrying on their 
commerce, they refolved to have a port ol their own 
Higher the mouth 'of the river. The magillrates and 
town-council of Glafgow, -{herefore, purchafed fome 
lands on the fouth fide of the river Clyde for this pur- 
pofe ; and fo expeditious were they in making their 
harbour, and rearing their town, that in 1710 a bailiff 
was appointed for the government of Port Glafgow. 
It is now a very confiderable parifh, fituated twenty-one 
miles nigher the mouth of tiie Clyde than Glafgow. 
The mod ancient part of the city hands on a rifing 
ground. The foundation of'tlie cathedral is one hun¬ 
dred and four feet higher than the bed of the river ; 
and the defeent from^the high ground reaches to about 
one hundred yards below the college. I'he reft of the 
city is built chiefly upon a plain, bounded fouthward 
by the Clyde, and northward by a gentle ridge of hills 
lying in a parallel diredlion with that river. Thefe 
grounds till lately confifted of gardens and fields ; but 
are now covered with buildings, in confequence of the 
increafing wealth and population of the city. The 
ftreets are clean and well paved ; and feveral of them 
interfefting one anotlier at right angles, produce a very 
agreeable effect. The four principal ftreets, crofting 
each other in that manner, divide the city nearly into 
four equal parts; and the different views of them from 
the crofs, or centre of interfeftion, have an air of great 
magnificence. The houfes, confifting of four and five 
floors in height, are built of hewn ftone, generally in an 
exceeding good tafte, and many of them elegant. 
The cathedral, or high church, is a magnificent build¬ 
ing, and its elevated fituation is greatly to its advan¬ 
tage. The great tower is founded upon four large maf- 
live pillars, each of them about thirty feet in circum¬ 
ference. The tower itfelf is twenty-five feet and a half 
fquare, furrounded by a baluftrade, within which rifes 
an odfangular fpire terminated by a fane. The tower 
upon the weft end is upon the fame level, but appears 
not to have been finilhed, though it is covered with 
lead : in this tower is a very large bell, eleven feet 
four inches in diameter. The principal entry was ori- 
ginally from the weft ; the gate eleven feet broad at the 
bafe, and feventeen feet in height. The w'eft end of 
the choir is now appropriated for a place of divine 
worfliip ; and is divided from the remaining part by a 
ftone partition, which is inclofed by another ftone wuill 
parting it from tlie nave. It is impoflible to form an 
adequate idea of the awful folemnity of the principal 
aide, occaftoned by the loftinels of the roof, and the 
range of pillars by which the whole is fupported. The 
whole length of the cathedral within the walls is two 
hundred and eighty-four feet, its breadth fixty-five; 
the height of the choir, from the floor to the canopy, 
ninety feet ; the height of the nave, eighty-five feet ; 
the height of the middle tower, two lumdred and twenty 
feet. This fabric was begun by John Achaius in 1123, 
and confecrated in 1136; and continued by fucceeding 
biftiops, till finiflied in the manner in which it ftands at 
prelent. 
St. Andrew’s church was begun by the community 
in 1739, and finilhed in 1756. It is the fineft piece of 
modern architecture in the city , and is built after the 
model of St. Martin’s in the Fields, London, whole ar¬ 
chitect was the famous Gibbs. The length of the 
church is one hundred and four feet, and its breadth 
fixty-fix. It has a noble archeu roof, well ornamented 
witlr figures in Itucco, and luft.dned by ftone columns of 
tile Corinthian order. Correfpondent to the model, it 
has a place for the altar on the caft, in which is a very 
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ancient Venetian window; but the altar-place being 
feated, makes tliis end appear to no great advantage. 
The fronts of the galleries and the pulpit are done in 
mahogany in a very elegant manner. The fpire by no 
means correfponds with the reft of the building ; and, 
inrtead ol being an ornament, rather difgraces tJiis beau¬ 
tiful fabric. Its height is one hundred and feventy feet. 
The college of the univerfity extends along the eaft 
fide ot tlie high ftreet, and is upwards of three hundred 
and tliirty feet long. The gate at the entrance is deco¬ 
rated with nifties, and the building confifts of two prin¬ 
cipal courts or fquares. Tlie firft is eighty-eight feet 
long and forty-four broad. The well fide is elevated 
upon ftone pillars, on which are placed pilafters fup- 
porting the Doric entablature, and ornamented with 
arches forming a piazza. Above thefe is the public 
hall; the alcent to which is by a double fliglit of fteps 
inclofed by a handfome ftone baluftrade. The fpire 
Hands on the eaft fide, is one hundred and thirty-five 
feet high, and has a very good clock. Under this is 
the gateway into the inner and largeft coprt, which is 
one hundred and three feet long and feventy-nine broad. 
Over the entry, in a niche, is a llatue of Mr. Zacharias 
Boyd, wlio was a great benefaClor to the univerfity. 
On the fouth fide of the botanic garden Hands the li¬ 
brary ; a very neat edifice, well conftrufted for tl-.e pur- 
pofe intended, and containing a very valuabie collection 
ot books. Underneath are preferved in Cafes all the 
P.oinan inferiptions found on Graham’s Dike, together 
with altars and other antiquities collected from ditterent 
parts of Scotland. Adjoining, there is an obfervatory, 
well furnilhed with aftronomical inftruments. The col¬ 
lege alfo poflelTes, by bequeft, the late Dr. Flu liter’s 
iamous anatomical preparations, library, and miifeiim ; 
and in the department of natural philofophy, it is fur¬ 
nilhed-with an apparatus which is univerfally acknow¬ 
ledged to be the molt extenfive and nfeful in Great 
Britain, and v/hich owed its perfection to the liberality 
and unremitting labour of Mr. profelfor Anderlon. 
The tolbooth, or town-houfe, is a magnificent and 
extremely elegant building. The front is adorned with 
a range of Ionic pilafters ; and is elevated on ftrong 
rufticated pillars with arches, forming a piazza for 
merchants and others to fhelter themlelves from the 
weather when engaged in bufinefs. One of tlie apart¬ 
ments was the aflembly-hall; a neat room, forty-feven 
feet long, and twenty-four in breadth and height, fi- 
niflied in a good tafte, though fmall. The tov n-hall is 
a Ipacious and lofty apartment, finifhed in a very grand 
manner ; the ceiling is divided into dift’erent compart¬ 
ments well ornamented. Oppolite to the front of this 
building is the exchange-walk, which is well paved 
with free-ftone, and inclofed from the ftreet by ftone 
pillars. In the middle of this area is an equeftrian 
llatue of William III. placed upon a lofty pedeltal, 
and furrounded with an iron rail. In 1781, the ex¬ 
change under the piazzas was greatly enlarged. By tak¬ 
ing down the lower part of the town-hall and aflembly- 
room ; and at the fame time, by a tontine fcheme en¬ 
tered into by the inhabitants, a moft elegant cotfec-room 
was added, with a fuite of buildings adjoining lor the 
purpoles of a tavern and hotel, alfembly-room, and ol- 
fices for notaries and underwriters. The ali'embly-rooin, 
however, being found loo fmall, a fubfeription of above 
five thoufand pounds was railed by a limilar plan ot a 
tontine for building a new one. 
The guild-hall, or merchants’ houfc, is fituated 
upon the fouth fide of Bridgegate-ftreet ; and is in 
length eighty-two feet, in breadth thirty-one. The 
great hall, which is the whole length and breadth of 
the building, is fo capacious, that it is better adapted 
for the reception of great and numerous allcmblies than 
any other in the city. Tliis houfe is adorned with a 
very elegant fpire two hundred feet high. 
'Ihe iufirniary or hofpital is a very neat building^' . 
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