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STREETS AND BUILDINGS.
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the expression of the countenance is characterised by that air
of bonhomie and shrewd sense which distinguished that illus¬
trious individual. Directly in front of Sir Walter’s pillar,
facing South Hanover Street (opposite the new Post-Office),
there is a pedestrian statue, in bronze, by Flaxman, of the
lamented Sir John Moore, who was a native of Glasgow. To
the right of Sir John Moore’s statue, in the south-west angle
of the square, is Chantrey’s bronze figure of James Watt
in a sitting posture. In this square it is also proposed to
erect the statue of Sir Robert Peel, now in course of completion
in the studio of Mr. Mossman.
, Buchanan Street, at the back of the Exchange, and running
from Argyle Street, is the Regent Street of Glasgow, and is
filled with elegant shops and warehouses. In St. Yincent
PUce, opposite the Western Club House, is an equestrian
statue of Queen Victoria by Marochetti, erected to commemo¬
rate her Majesty’s visit to Glasgow in 1849.
Sauchiehall Street, the Oxford Street of Glasgow, and
aveiue to the west end portion of the town, is lined with
faslionable shops and elegant dwelling-houses. Only a few
years ago, it was a quiet narrow suburban road, with hedges
on each side ; but now the traffic is almost unceasing. In
this street is situated the M'Lellan Gallery, an elegant suite
of rooms, containing an extensive collection of ancient paint-
ingf, bequeathed, under certain contingencies, to the public of
Glaigow, by the late Archibald M'Lellan, Esq. At Charing
Cross, a pedestrian statue in bronze of the late James Oswald,
M.P. for Glasgow, has recently been erected. As the tourist
proeeeds, he finds, on the left, various handsome streets, opening
into it from the south, forming part of the new town, and
chiefly occupied by the wealthier classes.
Bath Street.—In this street, which runs parallel with
Satchiehall Street, is situated the Scottish Exhibition of Arts
and Manufactures, recently established by a number of the
leafing architects of Glasgow.
At the western extremity of Sauchiehall Street (popularly
called the west end), are Woodside Crescent, Claremont Ter¬
race, Woodland’s Terrace, etc., the residences of the local
aristocracy—the palaces, in fact, of the merchant princes of
:he west. The highly picturesque lands of Woodlands and