Tinto's top, which is 2,400 feet above the level of the fea. Land rents from 10s. to 35s. per acre.

Hyndford, is fituated in this parish. That profound mathematician, Major Gen. James Roy, was a native of this parifh, as was the Rev. Dr Roy, late minifter of Edinburgh.

PITTINAIN, is a very finall parish about 3 miles long and 2 broad, containing upwards of 400 inhabitants. The high grounds are mostly covered with heath, but the holms or haughs, on the banks of the Clyde, are rich loam, and very productive. Moft of the holms on the Clyde are much enriched by the mud and flime depofited annually by the overflowing of the river. The highest of the Westraw hills is 1000 feet above the level of the fea.

CARMICHAEL parifh is 5 miles long, and from 3 to 4 in breadth, containing 780 inhabitants. The foil is much diverfified; towards the Clyde it is gravelly, but in the higher parts clay; it is much expofed to rains. The agriculture is in the old ftile; the modern improvements have but flow entrance here. There is both coal and lime in Lord Hyndford's lands in this parish. CRAUFORDJOHN is of an oblong,figure, 16 miles in length, and about fix in breadth, containing nearly 770 inhabitants. The ground is various, but, as in other places in this diftrict, is little improved. The eftates of Gilkerscleugh and Glensfrine are fituated in this parish, and the improvements upon them do honour to the proprietors. For fome time, Lord Hopeton had filver mines wrought at Glendorch. Lead the foil is deep and rich. There is a has been found in the Gilkerscleugh eftate, where there is lime too, and good appearance alfo of coal; and upon the lands of Glendouran and Abington, there are marks of the operations of the miners at a former period.

CARLUKE. This parish is about 5 miles from Lanark, on the road to Glasgow, being about 7 miles in length, and 4 in breadth, containing about 1730 inhabitants. The foil is very various; the high grounds being very elevated and unproductive, while the low grounds on the banks of the Clyde are warm and fertile; as you recede from the river the foil grows gradually poorer. The banks of Clyde have long been famous for fruit; apples and pears are produced here in greater abundance, and in greater perfection than in any other diftrict in Scotland. The beauty of the woodlands, and the fcenery here, is much admired. Coal, ironftone, lime, and freeftone, abound here. Petrifactions of different kinds are also found, and there are many mineral fprings throughout the parish. Mauldflie, the elegant feat of the

Earl of

DALSERF. This parish, fituated about 5 miles from Hamilton, is at an average 5 miles long and 3 broad, containing nearly 1100 inhabitants. The high grounds are generally clay on a tilly bottom; on the banks of Clyde

Be

good deal of planting, and, on the banks
of the Clyde, are fine orchards.
fides the Clyde, Avon, with its pleasant
banks, and Calner, water this corner
Dalferf houfe, the refidence of Captain
Hamilton, is a neat modern building.
Befides coal in great abundance, we
meet with limeftone, free-stone and iron-
ftone in this parish.

The rent

BLANTYRE. This parish extends on the banks of the Clyde, in length about 6 and breadth only mile, and contains about 1040 inhabitants. The ground is on the whole flat, and the foil fertile, though various, being in fome places a deep mould, in others inclining to clay, and in others fandy. is about 1400l. Sterling. On the banks of the Calner water there has lately been wrought an excellent feam of iron-stone. There is a fulphureous mineral fpring here, which feveral years ago was much frequented, and in great repute, for fcorbutic and ftomach complaints.

DOUGLAS. This parish is of confiderable extent, being 12 miles long, and in many places 7 in breadth, containing

taining above 1700 inhabitants. The vivalcular and fpiral fhells; petrifactions foil on the banks of the river Douglas of wood are alfo found in the limestone. is good; but inland it lies on till, and There is a petrifying water in the Duke is cold and fpouty. Coal abounds here, of Hamilton's park, and beds of fuller's as alfo lime-ftone and free-ftone; the and potter's earth are found in different dips of the feams here are remarkable, places. Iron ftone is alfo frequently to fometimes shifting 30 or 40 feet; thefe be met with, and many chalybeate are called dykes or troubles by the work- fprings. This parish was honoured by men, and are the caufe of much labour the birth of the celebrated Doctor CulCafile Douglas, the feat len*. Mr Millar, Profeffor of Law in the univerfity of Glafgow, is alío a native of it. In fome deep ftanding pools, the horse muscle is found, many of which contain fmall pearls.

and expence.

of Lord Douglas, was burnt down about 40 years ago; only one wing has been rebuilt, and fitted up in an elegant style.

DALZIEL. This parifh fituated about 4 miles from Hamilton, is in length 4, and in breadth about 2 miles, containing 478 inhabitants. The furface of the whole is even and regular, rising moderately from the rivers Clyde and Calner. The foil, in general, is either a rich loam or strong marly clay. Agriculture has made confiderable progrefs under the aufpices of Mr Hamilton, an account of which was formerly given in vol. 57. p. 20. There is abundance of coal lying in ftrata, at different depths, but none is at prefent wrought.

HAMILTON. This parish is nearly a fquare of about 6 miles, two fides of which are washed by the river Clyde. The furface is pretty even, rifing gradually from the banks of the river, and is all arable. In the low grounds the foil is a deep loam, and very feruile; receding from the river it becomes more clayey and barren. Befides the Clyde, the river Avon runs feveral miles through the parish, and empties itself into the Clyde near the town. There are two bridges over the Clyde in this parish; one, Bothwell bridge, famous for the defeat of the Whigs by the King's army, in the reign of Charles the Second. In BOTHWELL parifh is of an oval fithe neighbourhood of the town ftands gure, extending about 8 miles in length, Hamilton Houfe, the feat of the Duke and in breadth, where greatest, 4: it of that name; the greater part of which contains near 2800 inhabitants. The was built in the end of last century. In ground is flat upon the Clyde, and-rifes the park, about a mile from the palace, gradually to the eaft, and alfo to the ftands Chatelherault, faid to be a model north. The foil is chiefly clay, varyof the caftle of that name in France, ing in fliffness from the water fide, but of which the ancestors of this family the whole is arable. There is a good were Dukes. At the back of the deal of wood and planting in this parish. house there is a fine extenfive lawn. The best ground lets at 21. the outfield The gallery is well furnished with a va- at 10s. per acre: The whole may proluable collection of paintings, among duce nearly 6000l. per annum. the most remarkable of which is Daniel great road from Edinburgh to Glasgow in the Lions' Den, and Lord Darnley goes through the whole length of this going a-hunting. In an adjoining clo- parifh; and it is beautifully watered by fet is a marble ftatue of Venus de Me- the Clyde and the two Calders. There dicis, dug from the ruins of Hercula- is excellent coal here, but no limestone neum, purchased by the prefent Duke has yet been wrought. The banks of while on his travels. There is great abundance of coal and lime in this parifh. In the lime works are found fmall

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The

By mistake, the parish of Kirknewton was mentioned in page 330. as the birth place of Dr Cullen.

the

the river have invited many gentlemen factory for dying cotton a Turkey red to build feats upon them. The House colour, in which they have completely of Bothwell, the refidence of Lord fucceeded. Among other things wor Douglas, is a handfome edifice, fituat- thy of notice, may be mentioned the ed at a small distance from Bothwell aqueduct bridge of the river Kelvin: it Cafle of ancient fame; and Woodhall, is carried over a valley 400 feet long, the feat of Campbell of Shawfield, are and 65 deep it confifts of 4 large well worth the notice of the traveller. arches the height from the bed of the RUTHERGLEN is one of the fineft pa- river to the top of the bridge is 83 feet, rifhes in this diftri&t, though small, it forming one of the moft ftupendous extends on the fouth bank of the Clyde, works of the kind perhaps in the world. 3 miles in length, and about 1 in The canal admits veffels of 19 feet breadth, containing 1860 inhabitants. beam, and 68 feet keel. The great ca The foil is in general a rich loam, and nal uniting the Friths of Forth and the whole is inclofed and cultivated. The average rent is about 40s. per acre. Rutherglen is a Royal Borough, fituated 2 miles from Glafgow; the fairs held in it are the most famous of any in Scotland for the fale of draught horfes. The minerals here are coal, and ironflone. The gentlemens' feats are Shawfield, Farme, and Rofebank.

BARONY OF GLASGOW. This, with the city, previous to 1595, made one parifh. It extends all around Glafgow, except on the fouth fide, from 2 to 5 miles in breadth, and contains near 4000 inhabitants. It is adorned by many gentlemens' feats, and is in the courfe of receiving great improvements. Glasgow is furrounded with coal, the annual produce of which is eftimated at 30,000l. Many of the manufactures connected with Glafgow are fituated here: There are about 3000 looms employed. The manufacture of the dye-ftuff called cudbear is carried on here under the firm of Geo. M'Intosh & Co. who have brought it to great perfection. This remarkable dye-ftuff is made from the excrefcence which grows on rocks and ftones, a fpecies of the leichen, or rock-mofs. It was used for this purpofe in the Highlands upwards of a hundred years back. This company now bring their mofs from Sweden and Norway: their annual expence for human urine for this manufacture is not lefs than 800l. Sterling they ufe above 2000 gallons daily. Mr M'Intofh, with fome other gentlemen, has also established a manu

Clyde, and the Monkland canal, are pleafing monuments of the profperity and enterprize of the inhabitants of this corner of the island.

GLASGOW is a handfome, populous, and well built city. It is fituated on the banks of the river Clyde, over which there are now three elegant bridges built. The tide flows up nearly 4 miles above the city. The number of inhabitants is 61,945. The annual births is 1250; burials 1561. As the city is daily on the increase, thefe muft vary yearly. The limits fet to this article of our mifcellany do not admit of an enlarged defcription of this city. We mult refer to the accounts of it which have been published by Mr D. Ure and Mr Gibson, and to Dr Lettice's Tour, part of which will be found in our 56th vol. p. 391, 454. We may briefly notice, that the cotton manufactory, which now is the principal one, in 1791, employed 15,000 looms, each loom giving employment to 9 perfons on an average, making in all 135,000 perfons. The average produce of each loom is 100!. annually, making 1,500,cool. Sterling. It was here that the first incle loom was eftablished in the year 1732, and the firft delft ware made in Scotland was manufactured here in 1748.

GORBALS of Glafgow. This parish was disjoined from that of Govan, and erected into a feparate parifh in the year 1771. It contains above 5000 inhabi tants; it is much on the increase, and, owing to the new bridge thrown over

the

extends from weft to eaft 4 miles, and chief employments of the inhabitants. from north to fouth 3. The ground is, The extenfive coallieries, too, occupy a pretty much elevated; the foil is partly number of hands. It may be remarked, light and fandy, and partly of a ftrong that the coal,, as well as the freeftone, clay, and the greater part is inclofed. on both fides of the Clyde, dip or inThe banks of the river Cart are beauti- cline to the river. There is here, too, fully wooded, and the fcenery pictur- a quarry of marble which takes a very efque and romantic. Many tumuli are good polifh. This parish is noted for to be met with here; thofe that have the numerous converfions that happened been dug into, always contain human during the miniftry of the Rev. Mr bones, arms, and frequently inftruments M'Culloch about the year 1742. of war. In the estate of Castlemilk, may be feen the remains of a Roman caufeway. There is plenty of freestone, and in one diftrict whinstone abounds, appearing, in fome places, in the form of maffy bafaltic columns.

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CAMBUSLANG is about 3 miles fquare, fituated on the banks of Clyde between Hamilton and Glafgow; it contains about 1288 inhabitants. This parish is beautifully diverfified with hill and dale. Dichmont, the higheft ground, is 700 feet above the level of the fea, and commands one of the fineft profpects almoft to be met with any where. The foil on the mer is loamy and fertile, on the higher grounds it gradually turns to a clay, generally upon a tilly bottom. Weaving and spinning of cotton are the

SHOTTS. This large parith is fituated in the north-eaft corner of Lanark. thire. In length it measures 10 miles, and 7 in breadth. The furface is bro

ken and hilly. The Hirst hill has been
confidered the highest cultivated land in
Scotland, but this is a mistake arifing
from that ground being the highest be
tween the Frith of Forth and Clyde,
both which are feen from this hill.
The foil is poor, renting from 5s. to
13s. per acre, the whole yielding 45 col.
Sterling. Coal and ironstone are plen-
ty here. Gavin Hamilton, Efq; of
Murdiefton, the most celebrated history
painter now alive, is a native of this
(To be continued.)
A Table of the Foffils found in this
district, will be given in the Appendix,

parish.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SCOTS MAGAZINE.

SIR, YOUR inferting the inclofed curious bill of the King's fkinner, anno 1625, in your authentic repofitory, will oblige many, and in particular

ANTIQUARIUS.

Scots.

For the Right Honorable my Lord Margus Hambleto the last of Januarie 1625. Ite, for furringe of his Honore's Creation Robe of Crimfine Vellitt, and furred wth Armines, and powdered according to the Order; and for Armines to reforme the faine Robe and the Worke

* L. 30

Ite, for laying in a fure of whyte Foxes into a Crimfine Silke Chamber
Coate the Worke

Ite, for Silke

Ite, for providing of a P leme t Robe for yor Honor

Ite, for keeping and àiringe of your Robes, and fures, for the Space of
Seven Years

Ite, for Laying in a fure of Whyte foxes into a Scarlett Coat, the Work-
man shipe
Ite, for Silke

Rqv in pt

Some is

L.48 2

L. 20 0 O

15 0 0

HAMILTON.

Quoted on the back thuş, "Thomas Langhorn; the Kings Skinners Bill."
We had no characters which resemble the original figures.