The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . r ^?/:t^.n- ^/ /^ M^ A/fl^^.._-»^ ---—^ iiii~irBn i THE CARTOGRAPHY OF GLASGOW. 6* James Barry, surveyor in Glasgow, published in 1782 a Plan of of Grlasgow, Gorbells, Caltoun and Environs, with an exact delinea-tion of its Royalty, on a scale of 500 feet to the inch. A feature of thisplan is the numbering of the Royalty march stones. It covers a largerarea than McArthurs Map, especially on the north and south of thecity, but being on a smaller scale it shows less detail. Barry was asurveyor

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The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . r ^?/:t^.n- ^/ /^ M^ A/fl^^.._-»^ ---—^ iiii~irBn i THE CARTOGRAPHY OF GLASGOW. 6* James Barry, surveyor in Glasgow, published in 1782 a Plan of of Grlasgow, Gorbells, Caltoun and Environs, with an exact delinea-tion of its Royalty, on a scale of 500 feet to the inch. A feature of thisplan is the numbering of the Royalty march stones. It covers a largerarea than McArthurs Map, especially on the north and south of thecity, but being on a smaller scale it shows less detail. Barry was asurveyor in extensive practice, and laid out St. Enoch Square in buildinglots and several new streets north and south of Argyle Street. Previouato the issue of this map, Barry had supplied a plan of the city and ofthe villages of Caltoun and Gorbells, with a part of the adjacent country(19| X 15), for Gibsons History of Glasgow, published in 1777. Theplan of 1782 is reproduced in Glasgow Charters, \o\. ii. (Map 4). In 1795 Thomas Richardsons Map of the Town of Glasgow andCountry seven miles round was published on a scale of 1J miles to theinch. R

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