. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . ll debt court every Tuesday during session,and occasionally during vacation ; and quarter sessionsare on the first Tuesday of March, May, and August,and the last Tuesday of October. Dumbarton, alongwith Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Rutherglen, and PortGlasgow, returns one member to parliament, its muni-cipal and parliamentary constituency numbering 1758in 1882. The annual value of real property within theparliamentary burgh was £15,004 in 1856, £37,532 in1875, and £45,898 in 1881-82, when th
. Ordnance gazetteer of Scotland : a survey of Scottish topography, statistical, biographical, and historical . ll debt court every Tuesday during session,and occasionally during vacation ; and quarter sessionsare on the first Tuesday of March, May, and August,and the last Tuesday of October. Dumbarton, alongwith Kilmarnock, Renfrew, Rutherglen, and PortGlasgow, returns one member to parliament, its muni-cipal and parliamentary constituency numbering 1758in 1882. The annual value of real property within theparliamentary burgh was £15,004 in 1856, £37,532 in1875, and £45,898 in 1881-82, when the corporationrevenue was £1048, and the harbour revenue £1339 (in1866, £738). Pop. of royal burgh (1801) 2541, (1811)3121, (1821) 3481, (1831) 3623, (1841) 4391, (1851)4590, (1861) 6090; of pari, burgh (1851) 5445, (1861)8253, (1871) 11,404, (1881) 13,782, of whom 3482 werein Cardross parish. Houses (1881) 2478 inhabited,40 vacant, 51 building. The Castle of Dumbarton is situated on an acutepeninsula at the left side of the Levens influx to theClyde, and consists partly of a mass of rock, partly of25. DUMBARTON superincumbent buildings. The rock appears to over-hang both rivers—huge, mural, weather-worn—forseveral hundred yards down to their point of culminates at 240 feet above sea-level, measures1 mile in circumference, and figures picturesquely inmost of the views of the upper waters of the Firth ofClyde. The rock is of basalt, like Ailsa Craig, the Bass,Stirling Castle Rock, and other single, sharply-outlinedheights, that start abruptly from sea or plain. It risessheer from the low circumjacent level, and stands byitself, without any hills near it. The basalt tends tothe prismatic form, being slightly columnar, and inplaces magnetic ; and is all the more curious for pro-truding through beds of sandstone, nearly a mile distantfrom any other eruptive formation. The rock towardsthe summit is cloven by a narrow deep chasm into adouble peak, and presents
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