. The earth and its inhabitants ... Unfortunately, during a severe gale in December,1879, the structure was precipitated into the Tay, together with a railway trainhastening across it at the time. Dundee is an ancient city, which has been frequentlybesieged and taken. It was the first town in Scotland to sever its connectionwith Pome, and the religious ardour of its citizens converted it into a secondGeneva. It is the most populous town in Northern Scotland, and the first in theUnited Kingdom for flax, jute, and hemp spinning and weaving, its factories inthese branches alone emplojing more tha
. The earth and its inhabitants ... Unfortunately, during a severe gale in December,1879, the structure was precipitated into the Tay, together with a railway trainhastening across it at the time. Dundee is an ancient city, which has been frequentlybesieged and taken. It was the first town in Scotland to sever its connectionwith Pome, and the religious ardour of its citizens converted it into a secondGeneva. It is the most populous town in Northern Scotland, and the first in theUnited Kingdom for flax, jute, and hemp spinning and weaving, its factories inthese branches alone emplojing more than 50,000 operatives. But, in addition tothis, there are engineering works, ship-yards, and other industrial factories, and200,000 cwts. of marmalade are made every year. For the last century themariners of Dundee have pursued the high-sea fisheries with varying success, buton the whole not without profit, for at the present day they almost monopolize thewhale fisheries in Bafiins Bay and the seal fisheries in the Greenland Sea. The. FOEFAESHIEE. 365 commerce of Dundee is commensurate with its industry, and nearly all the raw «
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