. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. a great manufacturing city, employingher indus-^ry on the old staple of linen of the finer descriptions, as cambrics, lawns, gauzes;also in the making of stockings and of shoes for exportation; but its product in thesebranches never exceeded 400,000Z. But when cotton was extensively introduced intoBritain, Glasgow devoted herself entirely to this new manufacture. She became tlie rivalof Manchester; and, if circumstances did not allow her to obtain so great a share of th
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. a great manufacturing city, employingher indus-^ry on the old staple of linen of the finer descriptions, as cambrics, lawns, gauzes;also in the making of stockings and of shoes for exportation; but its product in thesebranches never exceeded 400,000Z. But when cotton was extensively introduced intoBritain, Glasgow devoted herself entirely to this new manufacture. She became tlie rivalof Manchester; and, if circumstances did not allow her to obtain so great a share of themanufacture, she produced some finer fabrics, and was as prompt in availing herself ofevery improved process; immense fortunes were realized, and an annual value of nearly4,000,000^. sterling produced. Glasgow was one of the first places which adopted the in-vention of power looms, and she has now 10,000 of these, and 32,000 worked by the 1830, the number of persons receiving parochial aid was only 5000, not quite one-fortiethpart of. the inhabitants, and the sum expended on the poor was only 17,2871., although. 420 DESCRIPTIVE GEOGRAPHY. III. Glasgow is now the largest town in Great Britain, London and Manchester excepted. Theharbour is a t the Broomielaw, where there is an extensive quay along the Clyde; but sogreat are the obstructions to its navigation, that Glasgow depends chiefly for imports onGreenock and Liverpool. In 1832 there entered its port only 79 vessels, of tons. Glas-gow is a handsome and well-built town. Its original streets of Argyle and Trongate arebroad and spacious ; and several handsome squares have been built within the Limits of thecity; but tiie fasliionable residences arc now almost exclusively in the west, where, along arange of somewhat elevated ground, a number of elegant and spacious streets have beenerected. Gorbals, Gallon, Bridgeton, Hutchesontown, Tradeston, and Anderston, arc the principal suburbs, and tbrm the manufactu
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