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GLASGOW.
the termination of Ingram Street. It was built in 1829, at a
cost of <£50,000, in the florid Corinthian style of architecture.
The News Room is 130 feet long by 60 broad, with a richly
ornamented arched roof, supported by fluted Corinthian
columns. On the pavement in front is a colossal equestrian
statue in bronze of the Duke of Wellington, by Marochetti,
having bronze alto-reliefs on the pedestal of his principal battles.
This statue was erected by private subscription, and cost
<£10,000.
The Broomielaw or Harbour is a noble basin, comprising an
area of about fifty acres. It is upwards of four hundred feet
wide, and more than a mile in length, with a splendid range
of quays and sheds, thronged with vessels of every description,
from the largest Indiaman to the smallest coasting craft, while
steam vessels are to be seen at all hours discharging or receiv¬
ing crowds of passengers, or threading their way through the
harbour, in the midst of buoys, ferryboats, and dredging ma¬
chines. The harbour is, i|f reality, the greatest work connected
with modem Glasgow.. It is gi once the product of its com- ;
mercial enterprise, and the s^Jce of much of its prosperity. !
Where these ponderous shipi are now ranged three or four
abreast, men still living, and little, indeed, past the prime of j
life, have waded across from green bank to green bank in their
boyhood. Within little more than half a century, the river at^
this place has been doubled or trebled in width, while in depth
it has been increased from 3^ feet at full tide, to about 20 feet.
A few years ago, the harbour was only 730 feet long on one I
side ; it is now some 7000 feet, and this, too, extending along ^
both sides of the river. The Bridge here crosses the river, is j
faced with Aberdeen granite, and consists of seven arches, ;
extending altogether to 500 feet in length, and 60 feet wide,.
being seven feet wider than London Bridge. The view from it
is very striking and animated.
The Green is the old Public Park of Glasgow, and is the
common property of the inhabitants. It extends along the
north bank of the river to the east of the Broomielaw, and is
diversified with walks, some of which are shaded by rows of
trees, and is surrounded by a carriage-drive about two miles j
and a quarter in circumference. An obelisk, 143 feet in height, I
is here erected to the memory of Nelson. When the tide is at