Commercial Enterprise and Social Progress, Or, Gleanings in London, Sheffield, Glasgow and Dublin, by the Author of 'The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy'
Commercial Enterprise and Social Progress, Or, Gleanings in London, Sheffield, Glasgow and Dublin, by the Author of 'The Autobiography of a Beggar Boy'
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...above all, as to the regular manner in which her principal streets intersect each other at right angles, by which means the transit from one part of the city to the other is facilitated. Many of her public buildings stand out in bold relief, and embellish the town by their varied beauty and different ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1858 edition. Excerpt: ...above all, as to the regular manner in which her principal streets intersect each other at right angles, by which means the transit from one part of the city to the other is facilitated. Many of her public buildings stand out in bold relief, and embellish the town by their varied beauty and different styles of architecture. In travelling through Glasgow, the eye of the stranger rests upon buildings of excellent freestone, instead of the dull, monotonous, and everlasting bricks which form nearly the whole of the houses and public buildings in most of the English towns. The Broomielaw and Stockwell bridges are both built with Aberdeen granite, and are among the noblest specimens of the elliptic style of architecture of the age. The river Clyde, from being a narrow winding stream unfit for the navigation of any craft above the size of a cockboat, has been converted into a noble river, and now bears on its bosom thousands of the mighty leviathans of the deep, whose sails are filled with the winds of every clime under heaven. During the last fifty years there have been serious transformations in the character and appearance of several of the leading streets, as well as many of the principal places of business in Glasgow. Year after year, some crooked memorial 'o' auld lang syne' is being consigned to the tomb of forgetfulness. The old streets which were formerly characterised by the questionable beauty of sharp curved lines, and the angular protuberances of gouty old houses, have been turned from their crooked ways, and are now dressed in the fashionable costume of modern gentility. We may safely assert that there is no town in the United Kingdom where commercial progress has produced such rapid and extraordinary changes. Up to 1820, the whole...
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