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reach, is a neat edifice with a belfry, built in 1830, for the congregation which previously met in the nave of the Cathedral. The High School, in an open area, behind St. Paul's Church, eastward to Montrose Street, is a plain edifice, 120 feet long and 28 feet broad, containing eight class-rooms. The school dates from the 12th century; and is now conducted by seven masters. The United Presbyterian Church, at the corner of John Street and Cochrane Street, is an oblong edifice of 1859, with two fronts, consisting of basement storey and lofty Ionic colonnade.

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John Knox, comprising a lofty Doric | racters of early Gothic; it has recently column on a square base, after a design been refitted with pews and stained-glass by Thomas Hamilton, surmounted by a windows, in the grand old cathedral style; statue 12 feet high, from the chisel of and it is used as the Parochial High Robert Forrest. Another conspicuous Church. The Lady-chapel adjoins the monument is a Tudor structure on a choir on the east, and is entered from quadrangular base, after a design by both of its aisles; and it contains a John Bryce, with a colossal statue, also monument of Archbishop Law, and disfrom the chisel of Robert Forrest, to the plays, in its various parts, a profusion of memory of William M‘Gavin, author of rich carvings. The crypt is situated be"The Protestant." Other interesting low the choir and the Lady-chapel; meamonuments are, a beautiful Ionic struc-sures 125 feet in length; has very masture to the memory of the Rev. Dr. Dick; a large and florid mausoleum to the memory of Major Montieth ; an elegant architectural façade at the sepulchre of the Jews; and statues or other structures to the memory of Charles Tennant of St. Rollox, Colin Dunlop of Tollcross, Colonel Patterson, Dr. Macnish, William Motherwell, Rev. Dr. Heugh, and Rev. Dr. Wardlaw. Admission is given to the Necropolis free.

sive piers, variously circular, triangular, and multangular, with attached columns in a great variety of styles; and was long used as the Parochial Barony Church, and figures in that character in Sir Walter Scott's tale of "Rob Roy." An extensive ancient cemetery around the Cathedral is almost covered with grave-stones and monuments; and contains one to the memory of a number of the martyrs of the Covenant. The Archiepiscopal Palace, a castellated edifice, with military defences, stood in the vicinity, on ground now occupied by the Royal Infirmary. The Cathedral is open to visitors on Tuesdays and Thursdays for twopence, on other days free.

538. THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, in the western vicinity of the Cathedral, is a large edifice, in the Roman style, built in 1792–94, after a design by Adam. It has four storeys above ground and one below; presents, on its front, a tetra

537. THE CATHEDRAL stands contiguous to the ravine of the Molindinar Burn. It was mainly built during 74 years of the 12th century; but it underwent a series of changes and additions prior to the Reformation; and it has recently been so renovated as to assume, what good critics suppose to have been its original or designed form. It was modelled on the Latin cruciform type, but has no north transept, and only a small incomplete south one; and it consists of nave, choir, lady-chapel, crypt, and chap-style Corinthian portico; is surmounted ter-house. It measures 319 feet in length, 63 feet in breadth, and 90 feet in height; and is surmounted, at the centre, by a pointed octangular spire 225 feet high. The grand western entrance was long blocked up and hidden by an unsightly consistory and low tower, which were an excrescence on the original pile; but the entrance has been restored, and the excrescence taken away. The nave is 155 feet long, with a width of 30 feet between the aisles; and has a grand, simple, Gothic character. The choir is 97 feet long, and exhibits majestic ornate cha-ster chimney-stalk, 40 feet in diameter at

by a large, fine, ribbed cupola; and contains 15 wards and 283 beds. A Fever Hospital, of later erection, adjacent on the north, is a plainer edifice, with 11 wards and 267 beds. The Asylum for the Blind and Martyr's Free Church are a little further north; and St. Mungo's Roman Catholic Church is 200 yards to the west.

539. ST. ROLLOX Chemical Works, 700 yards north of the Royal Infirmary, cover 10 acres of ground, contain upwards of 100 furnaces, and have a mon

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the base, and 436 feet high. The Cale- | ally rendered unfit for its purposes by the donian Potteries, on Garngadhill, a little tunnelling of the Edinburgh and Glasto the east, conduct operations in all de- gow Railway beneath it, and by the enpartments, from the coarsest earthen- croachments of the town; and afterwards ware to the finest porcelain. Sighthill purchased, for its present uses, for Cemetery, beyond the outskirts, 600 £15,000. The Magdalene Asylum adyards north of St. Rollox, occupies a joins it on the east. An Episcopalian rising ground nearly 400 feet high; has Church, on ascending ground on the a splendid gateway and an elegant opposite side of the road, is a great chapel; comprises 12 acres of finely- Gothic edifice, with a grand wheelornamented surface; contains an obelisk window. to the memory of Hardie and Baird, who fell victims to the political outbreak of 1820; and commands a magnificent view from Tinto to the Grampians.

540. PARLIAMENTARY ROAD, now more a street than a road, extending about three-fourths of a mile from east to west, was laid out so late as 1838. The tract traversed by it, and the tracts adjacent, were previously all rural. A ridge of hill, too steep and high to be practicable for thoroughfare, separated the greater part from the city, but has been much reduced in height, and extensively edificed. The Town's Hospital, on the north side of Parliamentary Road, east of Leadbetter Street, is a spacious octagonal edifice, with four radiating wings and a central dome; built originally for a Lunatic Asylum, and standing then in great seclusion; but eventu

541. CATHEDRAL STREET, extending 1100 yards from the vicinity of the Cathedral to Buchanan Street, was formed since 1830, by enlarging, straightening, and edificing a previous line of narrow road and cart lane. Two neat churches stand on it, adjacent to its intersection by North Hanover Street; the one the Free Tron Church, with adjoining presbytery-house; the other an United Presbyterian Church, occupied by Professor Dr. Lindsay. The Morrisonian Church, in Dundas Street, about 170 yards to the west, is a Norman triplegabled edifice, with flanking entrancetower, terminating in a truncated spire. The Mechanics' Institution, on the west side of North Hanover Street, is adorned in front with a colossal statue of James Watt, and contains a library of upwards of 6300 volumes.

XLI.—THE CENTRAL DISTRICTS, WITH THE UNIVERSITY.

trian thoroughfare from Queen Street to Buchanan Street. The Square contains offices of the Electric Telegraph and the British and Magnetic Telegraph.

542. THE ROYAL EXCHANGE, | corners of the Square, and afford pedessituated in the area of Royal Exchange Square, confronting Ingram Street, was built in 1829, after designs by David Hamilton, at a cost of £60,000. It was partly a reconstruction of the town mansion of Cunninghame of Lainshaw, and partly a suite of new erections. It is a splendid edifice, in florid Corinthian; exhibiting on its eastern or main front a noble double-rowed octostyle portico; and surmounted, behind the pediment, by a cyclostyle lantern tower. Its reading-room measures 130 feet in length, 60 feet in breadth, and 30 feet in height; has an ornamental roof, supported by Corinthian columns; and is free four weeks to strangers introduced by a subscriber, and always to officers in garrison. A colossal equestrian bronze statue of the Duke of Wellington, on a granite pedestal, with bronze sculptured panels, stands on the pavement in front; executed by Baron Marochetti, at a cost of £10,000; and set up in 1844. Uniform ranges of building, chiefly occupied as warehouses, edifice the north and south sides of Royal Exchange Square, in a style to harmonize with the Exchange itself, but of a simpler design. The Royal Bank stands on the west side, with its front toward the rear of the Exchange; and is a tasteful edifice with Ionic portico, after a design by Elliot of London. Two triumphal Doric arches connect the sides of the Bank with the

543. INGRAM STREET, extending 500 yards eastward from Queen Street to Candlerigg Street, displays a large variety of attractive building. The British Linen Company's Bank, on the north side, at the corner of Queen Street, is a large structure in the ornate Venetian style, with boldly relieved portions. The Athenæum, originally the Assembly Rooms, on the same side, between Hanover Street and Frederick Street, is an edifice of 1796 and 1807, partly after designs by Henry Holland; showing a heavy Ionic centre with two lighter wings, and containing a well-supplied reading-room, and a library of nearly 9000 volumes, accessible to strangers for a fortnight, on introduction by a member. The Union Bank, nearly opposite the Athenæum, is an elegant edifice, modelled after the Temple of Jupiter Stator at Rome, with a lofty hexastyle Doric portico resting on a curtain basement, and surmounted by six colossal emblematic statues from the chisel of A. H. Ritchie. The Bank of Scotland, on the north side, confronting Glassford Street, has, over its principal entrance, a sculp ture of two figures supporting a shield with the city arms. Hutcheson's Hospital, on the same side, at the east cor

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ner of John Street, was founded in | to Virginia Street, took its name from a 1639-41, by George and Thomas Hutche- distinguished merchant of the times of son of Lamb Hill, for the maintenance the tobacco trade, mentioned by Smollet of decayed burgesses and the education in his "Humphrey Clinker." The of their children; and it is a pleasing Trades' Hall, on its west side, shows a edifice, after a design by D. Hamilton, pleasing façade, with Doric columns, with rusticated basement and Corinthian sculptures, and Venetian windows; is superstructure, surmounted by an octa- surmounted by a fine dome, and contains gonal spire 156 feet high. Campbell's an apartment much used for public asWarehouses, on the south side, eastward semblies, and capable of accommodating from Brunswick Street, are a vast block 600 persons. of building in the old Scottish style, completed in 1858. St. David's Church, confronting Candlerigg Street, is a hand-being confronted by Hutcheson's Hospisome cruciform structure in florid Gothic, after designs by Rickman and Hutchinson of Birmingham, with a pinnacled tower 120 feet high; and stands upon a burying crypt, supported by groined arches and cast-iron pillars. An ancient cemetery around it was curtailed by a widening of the street-way, and has been proposed to be cemented over and converted into a Place.

544. MILLER STREET, extending southward from Ingram Street to Argyle Street, was originally edificed with the mansions of the rich merchants in the times of the tobacco trade, but is now occupied by splendid warehouses and other places of business. The warehouse of the Messrs. Anderson, on its west side, is a structure with almost palatial appearance. The edifice built for the Western Bank, on the southern part of its east side, shows a lofty façade, with an elaborately-carved frieze. Stir ling's Library, at No. 48, contains about 14,000 volumes, and is open to the public for consulting the books free of charge.

545. VIRGINIA STREET, parallel to Miller Street, was originally edificed in the same manner as that street, and took its name from the trade with Virginia. A chief one of its mansions stood across its north end, on the ground now occupied by the Union Bank. The office of the City of Glasgow Bank, on its east side, is a fine modern edifice.

546. GLASSFORD STREET, parallel

547. HUTCHESON STREET, parallel to Glassford Street, takes its name from

tal. The Municipal Buildings, with one flank front to Hutcheson Street, another flank front to Brunswick Street, and an end or main front, on the south, to Wilson Street, were erected in 1844, after designs by Messrs. Clark and Bell, at a cost of £62,000; and contain the city council offices, the guildry offices, the fiscal's chambers, the sheriff court hall, and other apartments. Their south front exhibits a grand hexastyle Ionic portico, on a sculptured basement wall; and their west and east fronts display noble ranges of Corinthian columns, with rich entablature and cornice.

548. CANDLERIGG STREET, parallel to Hutcheson Street, is a comparatively ancient thoroughfare, entirely modernized. The City Hall, on its east side, contains an elegant apartment, spacious enough to accommodate nearly 4000 persons, supported on strong arches, and used for great public assemblies. The City Bazaar, adjacent on the south, occupies a large area, and is a well-arranged market-place for vegetables and dairy produce.

549. THE UNIVERSITY stands on the east side of High Street, and comprises three successive quadrangles. Its front is 305 feet in extent, and presents a monastic appearance, with grand archway, stone balcony, and dormer windows. The first quadrangle and all the front are structures of the reign of Charles II. The second quadrangle is entered by an