Les rivières de Grande-Bretagne, descriptif, historique, pictorical ; des rivières du sud et de la côte ouest . ie cui-louer de la villes la vie de l'entreprise a alreadybegun à se détourner de la voie de la High Street, afin d'runjiai-parallèle avec le fleuve, le long de la ligne de l'Trongait toaljsorb et Argyll Street, suburl« un peu de villages, de dépasser le champs neiglibouring, et par-et-byto engloutir, un par un, les manoirs de sa marine marchande ])rinces. l !ut lorsque thepresent siècle ouvert, la ville ne pouvait se vanter d'nuly certains 80,0()l) inhaltitants.Les Saracens Head dans la Gallowgate était toujours le

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The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . ie cui-rent of the citys business life had alreadybegun to turn aside from the channel of the High Street, in order to runjiai-allel with the river, along the line of the Trongait and Argyll Street, toaljsorb little suburl»an villages, to overflow the neiglibouring fields, and by-and-byto swallow up, one by one, the mansions of its merchant ])rinces. l!ut when thepresent century opened, the town could boast of nuly some 80, 0()l) inhaltitants.The Saracens Head in the Gallowgate was still the cliief place of entertainment;there Dr. Johnson housed on his return from his Hebridean tour, and Ihuuswas also among its guests. Queen Street a hundred years ago had not solong ceased to be the Cow Loan through which tlie citizens drove out tlieirCOW.S tr) pasture; and George Square, when the century was young, was a retiredpark, with trees and turf and shrubberies, surrttunded by the piivate dwellings ofa few city magnates. To this once rural spot the centre of interi-st and autliority of Modern. III >II1AI1T0N IKHK ( p. SCiG). The Clyde] GREATER GLASGOW. 303 Glasgow has now flitted; and here the city has set up its Valhalla. In theheart of the Square a statue of Sir Walter Scott towers on its high pedestal ;and surrounding it are ranks of other monuments—equestrian statues, and figureserect and seated: among them those of Sir John Moore and Lord Clyde, bothof them Glasgow callants who won for their native city war laurels toplace beside its trophies of peaceful industry; and of Thomas Canqjbell, the poet, wlio was born in the High Street, within a stonecast of the old CollegeBuildings. Chief of the public edifices that face the Square are the newMunicipal Buildings, in which, after several shiftings from the venerable Tolbooth, the City Fathers have set up theii gods. The foundation stone of this nu^gnificentpile was laid in October, 1883, and it has cost the town nearly

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