The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . n millions have been .spent on widening, deepening, andstraightening the channel and improving the har1)our acconnnodation of ;and the revenue of the Clyde Navigation Trust now reaches about £400,000annually. As the fruit of all this exi)enditure. the Trust can jxiint to the longlines of (piay walls and the magnificent Queens and Govan Docks, and to a bnnuland .straight waterway which, from Bridge to iort ( has aunifonn deptli of -JS feet at hiyh tide. Even fifty ye
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . n millions have been .spent on widening, deepening, andstraightening the channel and improving the har1)our acconnnodation of ;and the revenue of the Clyde Navigation Trust now reaches about £400,000annually. As the fruit of all this exi)enditure. the Trust can jxiint to the longlines of (piay walls and the magnificent Queens and Govan Docks, and to a bnnuland .straight waterway which, from Bridge to iort ( has aunifonn deptli of -JS feet at hiyh tide. Even fifty years ag(t l)r. .Macdonald coidd write of Govan as a still rural-lofiking villag<, to which the denizens of St. Mungo resorted on Sundays, afterthe skailing of the , to snulf the caller air by the waterside; and of The Clyde.] THE BUILDING OF SHIPS. 865 Pavtiok, on the ()])posite bank, us an • old-fasliioned town witli a pleasant half-rural aspect, also in repute as a on account of the salubrity ofits air. Now, these adjuncts of (rlasgow. with the adjoininu Whiteinch, are. ; Aiidicii; luuiij, L,u„l LOCH LOMOND (p. 367) world-famous as the headquarters of Clyde shipbuilding. From the Govan, Fair-field, and Linthouse yards, on the south side, and from the Finnieston, Point-house, Meadowbank, and Whiteinch slips, on the north bank, have been launchedsome of the largest and finest vessels—mercantile craft and ships of war—thathave ever put to sea. Dwelling-houses and public works have spread over theground behind, so that little is left of the rural or lialf-rural villages ofthe fifties. Yet Govan has its spacious breathing-space in the Klder Park, and 3GG RIVERS OF GREAT lUUTAIX. [The elms still sliadc the ancient Celtic crosses and nioninnents in its parish kirkvard;Partick still Ixirders on Kelvin Grove: and Wliiteincli lioasts, in its \ictoriiiPark, of a Fossil Grove of more hoar anti(iuil\ than Runic crosses, or thepre)list one
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