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Place, opposite the Western Club House, is an equestrian statue of Queen Victoria by Marochetti, erected to commemorate her Majesty's visit to Glasgow in 1849.

Sauchiehall Street, the Oxford Street of Glasgow, and avenue to the west end portion of the town, is lined with fashionable shops and elegant dwelling-houses. Only a few years ago, it was a quiet narrow surburban road, with hedges on either side; but now the traffic is almost unceasing. In this street is situated the Corporation Gallery, an elegant suite of rooms, containing an extensive collection of ancient paintings, bequeathed, under certain contingencies, to the public of Glasgow, by the late Archibald M'Lellan, Esq. At Charing Cross, a pedestrian statue in bronze of the late James Oswald, M.P. for Glasgow, has recently been erected. As the tourist proceeds, he finds, on the left, various handsome streets, opening into it from the south, forming part of the new town, and chiefly occupied by the wealthier classes.

At the western extremity of Sauchiehall Street, and on Sandyford Road (popularly called the west end), are Woodside Crescent, Claremont Terrace, Woodland's Terrace, Park Terrace, Buckingham Terrace, Grosvenor Terrace, etc., the residences of the local aristocracy-the palaces, in fact, of the merchant princes of the west. The highly picturesque lands of Woodlands and Kelvin Grove, occupying the east bank of the Kelvin, were purchased by the Corporation at a cost of nearly £100,000, and now form a west end park for the free use of the public. This place of recreation has now been beautifully laid out from designs by Sir Joseph Paxton, and is named "Kelvin Grove."

The Botanic Gardens, which are situated in Great Western Road, are of considerable extent, and occupy a site along the banks of the Kelvin. Of foreign plants there is here a very complete collection, and the grounds are beautifully laid out. The observatory, presided over by the Professor of Astronomy in the Glasgow University, occupies a lofty eminence southwest of the Gardens. In the neighbourhood of the Gardens, and in the same line of street, several very handsome terraces have recently been erected.

Blythswood Square is of older date, but its buildings, from their lofty position and elegant exterior, form one of the finest

and most prominent objects to the stranger approaching Glasgow from the west. In the south-west corner of the square is an Episcopal church (St. Jude's), in the Egyptian style of architecture. The view from Blythswood Square to the south and west is very fine; but on the north it is intercepted by the more commanding ridge of Garnet Hill.

The portion of the city on the south side of the Clyde comprises a population of about 80,000, located in Hutchesontown, Laurieston, Tradeston, and Kingston, mostly in the barony of Gorbals. Prior to 1846, Gorbals had a council, magistracy, and police jurisdiction, of its own; but in that year an act was passed, extending the municipality of Glasgow over the suburbs, and amalgamating the whole under one management. In Hutchesontown, which stretches eastward, huge clusters of cotton factories have sprung up; but in other directions, numerous spacious streets evince the rapid growth of the city in substantial wealth and comfort. Portland Street, which is nearly a mile in length, contains the Baronial Hall in connection with the Police Buildings. The Corporation have recently purchased upwards of 100 acres of the lands of Camphill for the formation of a public park on the south side of the Clyde, to be called "the Queen's Park."

The Joint Terminus of the Glasgow and South-Western and Greenock Railways, a heavy and sombre edifice, will be observed immediately on crossing the Broomielaw Bridge. Half a mile south is the basin of the Johnston and Paisley Canal, now used only for goods traffic.

The south-side station of the Caledonian Railway, whence trains depart to Bothwell and Hamilton, and likewise to Barrhead, is a little way east of this. In the same locality are Dixon's iron-works, having six blast-furnaces, and malleable iron-works in connection with them. On dull moist nights these throw up a reflection in the sky which is seen for many miles around. A considerable distance east, opposite the Glasgow Green, are the works of Messrs. S. Higginbotham and Co., where all the processes of spinning, weaving, dyeing, and printing, are carried on upon a vast scale.

The water supply of Glasgow is obtained from Loch Katrine (a distance of 40 miles), and is of excellent quality and purity. The undertaking was one of great labour and expense; but its

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ultimate success has proved sufficient recompense. In 1859 the works were publicly opened by Her Majesty at Loch Katrine.

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HAMILTON-BOTHWELL CASTLE-LANARK AND

FALLS OF CLYDE.

CALEDONIAN RAILWAY-GLASGOW AND HAMILTON SECTION.

Several trains daily each way. Omnibus in connection starts from 30 Queen Street quarter of an hour before each train; Fares, 1d. and 2d.

This tour may be conveniently made by the Caledonian Railway line to Hamilton, or, to save time, the tourist can leave the train at Blantyre Station, from which he may proceed on foot by the new suspension-bridge over the Clyde, to Bothwell Castle, Bothwell Bridge, and Hamilton Palace; or by Walker's Omnibus, from the Horse Repository, West Nile Street, or the office, 119 London Street-Glasgow to Bothwell four times a day in summer, and twice in winter. By the 'bus the tourist can be dropped at the gateway to Bothwell Castle. Another route is by the Caledonian Railway, south side station, to Uddingstone, within a short distance of Bothwell Castle. Leaving the Castle for Bothwell Bridge, the tourist finds there a gateway admitting to the Duke of Hamilton's grounds, through which he may walk for about two miles, and, crossing the Clyde, reach Motherwell Station, on the main line, 16 miles from Glasgow. From thence he is carried on by Carluke to Lanark, 29 miles from Glasgow. From Lanark-after visiting the Falls of Clyde-he may proceed by railway to Edinburgh, to Glasgow, or to Carlisle. The Falls may also be conveniently visited from Edinburgh, taking the Caledonian Railway to Lanark (30 miles), and afterwards either returning to Edinburgh, or reversing the route, as described.

Leaving Glasgow by railway, the train proceeds eastward to Hamilton by Rutherglen, Cambuslang, and Blantyre. The tourist may halt for an hour at Cambuslang to climb the curious basaltic hill of Dechmont (the fort of peace), 600 feet high. On its summit the Beltane or May day fires, in honour of the sun, are said to have been kindled. Large quantities of charcoal, and the remains of a strongly built round tower, 24 feet in diameter, were lately found buried under the soil. From the top of Dechmont, on a clear day, there may be obtained an excellent view of Clydesdale. Near at hand lie the undulating grounds of Bothwellhaugh, the rich woods of Hamilton, with Bothwell's picturesque castle and church; while further down in the vale rise Glasgow's countless spires