. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. ry ofi^ the sand and chinglefrom the banks. In 1755 Smeaton presented a report,in which he notes that of twelve different shoals betweenGlasgow and Renfrew the shoalest places, PoiuthouseFord and Hirst, had a depth of IJ and 1^ feet at low,and 3,1 and 3;^ feet at high, water ; these, now the west-ern limit and within the harbour of Glasgow, having apresent depth of 14 at low, and 24 feet at higli, Smeatons advice, the first Act of Parliament (1759)was applied for, whose pream
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical. ry ofi^ the sand and chinglefrom the banks. In 1755 Smeaton presented a report,in which he notes that of twelve different shoals betweenGlasgow and Renfrew the shoalest places, PoiuthouseFord and Hirst, had a depth of IJ and 1^ feet at low,and 3,1 and 3;^ feet at high, water ; these, now the west-ern limit and within the harbour of Glasgow, having apresent depth of 14 at low, and 24 feet at higli, Smeatons advice, the first Act of Parliament (1759)was applied for, whose preamble runs :— Whereas theriver Clyde from Dumbreck to the Bridge of Glasgow isso very shallow in several parts thereof that boats,lighters, barges, or other vessels cannot pass to or fromthe City of Glasgow except it be in the time of flood orhigh-water at spring-tides ; and if the same was cleansedand deepened, and the navigation thereof made morecommodious by a lock or dam over the same, it wouldbe a great advantage to the trade and manufactures ofthe city and parts adjacent and to the public in generaL. ORDNANC JOHN BARTHOLOMEW EDINBURGH -^3£nAKI ij TKi] DLTDJ!^
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