Retracing our steps, we shall strike down the first opening on the right, into Elmbank Crescent, a very handsome row of houses, but only half built. Passing through a new street just begun, and containing a few very handsome buildings, in the stately but somewhat stiff style of Louis the Fourteenth's time, and called India Street, the stranger finds himself at the western extremity of St. Vincent Street, here called Greenhill Place. Proceeding citywards, along

this noble street, and ascending gradually, on the right is Blythswood Square, the buildings of which, from their lofty position and elegant exterior, form one of the finest and most prominent objects to the stranger approaching Glasgow from the west. The view from this square, to the south and west, is very fine, but on the north, it is intercepted by the more commanding ridge of Garnet Hill. Returning to St. Vincent Street, the stranger finds himself descending gradually, with elegant masses of building on each side, and a noble street vista of great length before him. On the left is a handsome building, recently fitted up as a club-house, but there being no particular object to detain the eye, we shall suppose the tourist once more deposited in George's Square, in the north-west angle of which this noble opening has its termination.

WALK THIRD.*

INGRAM STREET-ASSEMBLY ROOMS-OLD BRIDGE OF GLASGOWPOOR'S HOUSE-CATHOLIC CHAPEL-CUSTOM HOUSE-GORBALS CHURCH-CARLTON PLACE-WOODEN OR SERVICE BRIDGE-GLASGOW BRIDGE-VIEW FROM BROOMIELAW-HARBOUR-SHIPPING, STEAM-VESSELS, ETC.-SUBURBS OF LAURIESTON, TRADESTON, AND HUTCHESONTOWN-BARONY OF GORBALS-PAISLEY CANAL.

LEAVING George Square again, and proceeding down Queen Street on the left, the eye glancing along Ingram Street,

This walk is coloured green on the map.

rests on the fine portico of the Assembly Rooms,* standing boldly forward, with the grave old College steeple in the distance, looking demurely down on the bustle and animation of this great business thoroughfare. A splendid pile of building has recently been erected at the west end of this street, opposite to the Exchange, intended for the British Linen Company's Bank. This range of building forms one of the most striking objects in the city. Entering Argyle Street once more, and threading our way eastward, through its busy crowd, to the Stockwell, we request the stranger to dash with us down this avenue towards the river, and there being no objects of any note on the route, but those which have been already seen and commented on, we find ourselves on the Old Bridge of Glasgow. This bridge was built in 1345, and is the first stone bridge erected in Glasgow. It has been twice widened, and the last time in a very elegant and ingenious manner, by adding footpaths, supported by cast-iron frames of a tasteful character, from a design by the late Mr. Telford. Looking up the stream, the back and one side of the Jail buildings are seen on the left, with the Green sloping beautifully down to the river. The view downwards is still finer two bridges-the nearest, a very fine and perfectly level one, of wood, from a design by Mr. Stevenson of Edinburgh-span the glittering waters of the river. On the right is a plain respectable looking building, recently the City Poor's-House. + Next to it, is the Catholic Chapel, one of the most striking modern buildings in the Gothic style of architecture in the kingdom. It is very large, and elegantly fitted up, and is officiated in by Bishop Murdoch, and several Catholic clergymen. Beyond it a little way is the New CustomHouse, a respectable looking building. On the left bank of the river, the spire of the Gorbals Church breaks the uni

The Assembly Rooms is one of the finest edifices in the city, taken in connexion with the buildings on each side, which are built on a plan harmonizing with it. The principal room is 80 feet long, 35 feet wide, and 27 in height, with a tastefully painted ceiling. Nearly opposite to the Assembly Rooms is the Union Bank of Scotland, recently erected, a fine building, though faulty in some of its details. The portico in front is surmounted by six colossal statues of allegorical personages.

† As previously observed, the present Lunatic Asylum is now converted into a receptacle for the poor of the city.

formity of the outline in a pleasing manner, and two fine masses of buildings, East and West Carlton Place, from their simplicity, good taste, and happy elevation, confer a peculiar dignity upon this part of the river vista. Proceeding along this noble street, Glasgow or Broomielaw Bridge, designed by the late Mr. Telford, next demands the attention of the tasteful stranger. It is one of the finest bridges in Europe-500 feet in length, and sixty feet wide, being seven feet wider than London Bridge. It is cased with Aberdeen granite, and consists of seven arches, whilst the curve is so slight as scarcely to be observed. It forms a superb entrance to the city from the south, and from it one of the finest river harbour views in the United Kingdom may be obtained. To the south, a fine broad avenue stretches away till it is lost in the country. On the right is the Broomielaw Street, at least a mile long, with a fine ample margin to the river, and long ranges of covered sheds, and other harbour appurtenances. A noble basin, from three to four hundred feet wide, and about a mile in length, with its range of quays, is before the eye, crowded with vessels of every description, from eight hundred tons burden to the smallest coasting craft, whilst steam-vessels are perpetually sending up clouds of smoke or steam, and dashing in or out with a startling velocity and noise.*

* There are always several steam-vessels of the largest class lying in the river to get in their machinery, and there is a powerful crane, capable of raising thirty tons, for lifting the heavy boilers, &c. on board; a much larger one is preparing, expected to be the most powerful in Britain. Glasgow has attained great celebrity as a manufactory of marine steam-engines, and, indeed, of machinery of every description. The depth of water at the Broomielaw at spring tides is now from 14 to 16 feet, and it is proposed by the Trustees of the harbour and river, to deepen to the extent of 20 feet at neap tides, no obstacles existing, according to the report of the engineer, to prevent such a result being obtained. It is also intended to widen the river, for ten or twelve miles down, to from 300 to 400 feet wide, the width to increase downwards; to bevel off the banks on either side, and to remove every other obstacle to the freedom of the navigation; so that, in a few years, with wet docks, for which a large space of ground on the south side, immediately below the suburb of Tradeston, has recently been purchased, Glasgow will possess one of the most spacious and convenient harbours in the kingdom. From July 1837 to July 1838, 4600 sailing vessels of every description, arrived and departed from the harbour, with a tonnage of 214,471 tons; and the steam tonnage on the river during the same period was 731,028 tons; these latter vessels made 7850 trips in the same time. The revenue from the harbour and river in 1839 was £43,287, 16s. 10d.; customs levied in 1839, £468,974, 12s. 2d.; and post-office revenue, £47,527,7s.7d.

Crossing the river, the stranger will admire the spacious and elegant streets which, as he walks along, strike his eye. Portland Street is nearly a mile in length, very broad, and lined with handsome buildings. The population on this side of the river, is understood to be about 60,000, located in Laurieston, Tradeston, and Hutchesontown, all in the Barony of Gorbals, which is a dependency of Glasgow. The parliamentary constituency elect their own magistrates, by poll election, who must, however, be approved of by the Town Council of Glasgow. The terminus of the Ayr, Paisley, and Greenock Railway is on this side, close to Glasgow Bridge, and, half a mile to the south, is the basin of the Johnston and Paisley Canal; to which places light and swift passage-boats depart, almost every hour, during the summer. Arrived at the old bridge of Glasgow again, the stranger, before crossing, will probably cast one lingering look on the river, and noble view on either side, after which, retracing his steps up Stockwell Street, he may, if he please, return to George's Square, by Glassford Street, Ingram Street, and the Royal Exchange, thus passing through the most crowded and interesting business thoroughfares of the city.

SEVENTH TOUR.

GLASGOW-BOTHWELL CASTLE AND BRIDGE-HAMILTON-LANARK— FALLS OF CLYDE.

LEAVING Glasgow,* the tourist proceeds eastward, and passes Camlachie and Tollcross, where there are extensive coal and iron works. On the opposite side of the Clyde is the ancient royal burgh of Rutherglen, formerly a place of some importance, but now much reduced. In the church of

*There is another road from Glasgow to Hamilton on the other side of the Clyde, by Rutherglen, but it is by no means so interesting as the route described.