The international geography . Scotland 159 The university is the youngest in Scotland (1582), and is renowned mainlyfor its medical school. Book printing and brewing are among the moreimportant of the industries of the town. As the headquarters of manybanks and insurance offices it is of financial importance, and the GeneralAssemblies of the Scottish churches make it an ecclesiastical centre grandeur of its site, and the bold design and fine architecture of thestreets and public buildings, make it in the opinion of many the finest cityin Europe. The adjacent seaport of Leith docs a la
The international geography . Scotland 159 The university is the youngest in Scotland (1582), and is renowned mainlyfor its medical school. Book printing and brewing are among the moreimportant of the industries of the town. As the headquarters of manybanks and insurance offices it is of financial importance, and the GeneralAssemblies of the Scottish churches make it an ecclesiastical centre grandeur of its site, and the bold design and fine architecture of thestreets and public buildings, make it in the opinion of many the finest cityin Europe. The adjacent seaport of Leith docs a large shipping trade. The Western Low^land Towns.—The centre of the Lowlandplain is engaged in the characteristic industry of oil-shale mining, and thedistillation of paraffin. Further west the coal-mines yield more than halfthe output of Scottish coal-fields, most of which is employed in the many. Fig. 74.—Edmbiirgh and the Forth Bridge. manufactures of the densely peopled counties of Lanark and black-band iron-stone occurring with the coal gives employment tothe blast furnaces of Hamilton, Wishaw, Coatbridge, Kilmarnock, andCumnock. The industry of the region is concentrated on the upper estuaryof the Clyde where Greenock is an active seaport with ship-building yards,and Paisley, though standing back from the river, is even more prosperousthrough its great manufactures of cotton thread. Glasgoiv is one of themost ancient cities in Scotland, and the seat of an old university. At onetime its importance, like that of Perth, lay largely in its situation on theborder of the Highlands, but its present prosperity, which has made it thelargest British city next to London, is due to the artificial deepening of theClyde, commenced in 1768. The proximity of iron and coal promotedmanufactures of every kind, the navigable waterway enabled trade-relations i6o The International
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