. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Hugh W^ee Well. Probably it was from this spot that the advancing Romanlegions, keeping to the heights, as was their habit, first hadunfolded before them the kingdom of Strath-Clyde. There itlay, stretching far and wide, and, on the north-west horizon, theycould descry, in the blue distance, the mighty rampart of theGrampians, little dreaming that beyond this barrier imperialRome should never penetrate. We may suppose the centurionhalting his troops to refresh themse
. The Paisley thread industry and the men who created and developed it, with notes concerning Paisley, old and new . Hugh W^ee Well. Probably it was from this spot that the advancing Romanlegions, keeping to the heights, as was their habit, first hadunfolded before them the kingdom of Strath-Clyde. There itlay, stretching far and wide, and, on the north-west horizon, theycould descry, in the blue distance, the mighty rampart of theGrampians, little dreaming that beyond this barrier imperialRome should never penetrate. We may suppose the centurionhalting his troops to refresh themselves at this well, before Transition 171 descending- to pitch their tents on the last of those glacial rollswhich, like waves of the sea, fill up the space between the baseof the hills and the morass which then occupied the low was on the summit of Oakshaw Hill that the Prsetorium, orgate next the enemy, was pitched, and Castlehead still marks theother extremity of the Stanley :. The view of Paisley from this point is very fine, and theCorporation are to be congratulated on having secured a consider-able area for a public park. They have wisely left it in its nativestate, to the delight of all lovers of the picturesque. The ramblercan then go on to the renowned Peesweep Inn (p. 172), on thesummit of the hill, where he can be regaled with the Spartanfare of bread and cheese and ginger beer, for our maternalmagistracy believe that the sweet mountain air is intoxicating i;: The Paisley Thread enough for the present degenerate race ! Then, as gloamingcomes on, he can return to see that The plantin taps are tinged witli goud, and in the hollow, The midges dance aboon tlie burn.
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