. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. the produce of tiie West Indies, to which is added a veryextensive herring fishery, and a share of the cod fisheries of Newfoundland and Cape sum of 90,000/. has been lately expended in the improvement of the harbour, whichcan now contain 500 sail, and a handsome custom-house has been built by government. In1832 there entered this port 282 vessels, tonnage 78,131. Greenock is not an elegant town;but the hills behind it command a noble view of the river, and o
. The encyclopædia of geography: comprising a complete description of the earth, physical, statistical, civil, and political. the produce of tiie West Indies, to which is added a veryextensive herring fishery, and a share of the cod fisheries of Newfoundland and Cape sum of 90,000/. has been lately expended in the improvement of the harbour, whichcan now contain 500 sail, and a handsome custom-house has been built by government. In1832 there entered this port 282 vessels, tonnage 78,131. Greenock is not an elegant town;but the hills behind it command a noble view of the river, and of tlie mountains of Argyleon the opposite coast. Port Ghisgow, about three miles higher than Greenock, and a much smaller port, continuessubservient to Glasgow, receiving such vessels belonging to that city as are too bulky toascend the Clyde; in this capacity, its trade is very considerable. Here was built the firstdock in Scotland, in front of which a spacious quay extends along the Clyde, for the accom-modation of those vessels which do not require to enter the basin. Renfrew, the capital of Book I. SCOTLAND. 421 194. the county, is an old town, which has not shared in the prosperity of its neighbours. The•nhabitants, however, receive a little employment from the manufacturers of Glasgow. The banks of the Clyde above Glasgow, whose vicinity forms only a small part, howeverimportant, of the extensive county of Lanark, are still to be surveyed. First occurs Both-well (Jig. 191.), one of the principal seats of the Douglases. Here Edward L placed the chief garrison, which was intended to hold Scot-land in subjection. It is now a bold and strikingruin, rising above the river banks. A little aboveis Bothwell Bridge, so noted as the disastrousscene of the rout of the covenanting army. Far-ther up is Hamilton, a pleasant handsome town ina fine country : it is supported by the residence ofthe family of Hamilton, and by a branch of thecotton From Hamilton tlie roadlea
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