The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . GLASGOW AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ^ 9 side of the Clyde, purchased 13 acres opposite Dumbarton on thesouthern bank, and established there Port-Glasgow, and the firstScottish graving dock. The new port at the time proved a failure, andthe growing commerce of Glasgow led to efforts to improve the quay was built at the Broomylaw in 1688, but the river was tooshallow to make it of real service. The first definite scheme to improvethe Clyde was that of Smeaton in 1755. He proposed to build a lockat Marling

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The City of Glasgow : its origin, growth and development ; with maps and plates . GLASGOW AND ITS GEOGRAPHICAL HISTORY. ^ 9 side of the Clyde, purchased 13 acres opposite Dumbarton on thesouthern bank, and established there Port-Glasgow, and the firstScottish graving dock. The new port at the time proved a failure, andthe growing commerce of Glasgow led to efforts to improve the quay was built at the Broomylaw in 1688, but the river was tooshallow to make it of real service. The first definite scheme to improvethe Clyde was that of Smeaton in 1755. He proposed to build a lockat Marlingford, four miles below Glasgow Bridge, so as to secure 4J feetof water at Glasgow quay at all states of the tide. If Smeatons policyhad been adopted the city quays would have been useful to lightersdischarging cargoes, but no ships could have reached Glasgow. Thequestion was fortunately reinvestigated by John Golborne of Chester in1768 and by James Watt in 1769. Golborne had introduced the systemof making rivers scour out their own beds by confining the currentbetween jetties;

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