. The earth and its inhabitants .. . re abundant harvest here than in most of the other great cities of theworld. Irishmen without work, and numerous immigrants from the Highlands,furnish fresh food to succeeding epidemics, and the narrow icynds are thepermanent abodes of consumption and fever. Yet between 1866 and 1876 morethan 31,000 persons were driven from the most crowded parts of the city inconsequence of the opening of new thoroughfares. The 150,000 houses of the town extend along both banks of the Clyde, but I LANAEKSHIRE. 317 the principal quarters and nearly all the public buildings
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . re abundant harvest here than in most of the other great cities of theworld. Irishmen without work, and numerous immigrants from the Highlands,furnish fresh food to succeeding epidemics, and the narrow icynds are thepermanent abodes of consumption and fever. Yet between 1866 and 1876 morethan 31,000 persons were driven from the most crowded parts of the city inconsequence of the opening of new thoroughfares. The 150,000 houses of the town extend along both banks of the Clyde, but I LANAEKSHIRE. 317 the principal quarters and nearly all the public buildings are to the northof the river. The cathedral, with its beautiful Gothic crypt, is, with theexception of a church in the Orkneys, the only Catholic place of worship inScotland which escaped destruction at the time of the Reformation. The orderto wreck it had been given; but the citizens, proud of their old church, resistedthe iconoclastic zeal of the Calvinistic ministers. In the necropolis at the Fig. 155.— 1 : 70, 4 20 4I5 Q — IMile. back of the cathedral has been placed a conspicuous column in memory of JohnKnox. This venerable pile now stands near the eastern verge of the city, whichhas not grown up around it, but spread to the westward, in the direction ofthe sea. The old university, founded in the fifteenth century, has recently beentransferred from its ancient site in the east of the city to the neighbourhoodof the West-end Park, and its showy buildings occupy a magnificent position 318 THE BRITISH ISLES. on the top of Gilmore Hill. Amongst its many collections that bequeathed byDr. Hunter, the famous surgeon, is the most valuable. Hardly inferior in itsmuseums and chemical laboratories is the so-called Andersonian University, whichis at once a mechanics institution and a school of science, whose evening classesare attended by thousands of students. By a curious clause in his will, thefounder of this noble institution determined that it should be
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