Towns > Glasgow > 1787 - Reprint of Jones's directory; or, Useful pocket companion for the year 1787

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close at 2d. a mile!" A little further on might be seen:
"New laid eggs every morning, by me, Janet Stobiel"
Over an eating-house in a sunk flat, hungry passengers
were invited to
" Stop and read, to prevent mistakes,
Joseph Howel's beefstakes.
Good meat and drink makes men to grow,
And you will find them here below."
Among the inns or hotels of the period were the " Sara-
cen's Head," Gallowgate; the " King's Arms," Trongate;
the "Bull Inn," Argyle Street; the "Crown Inn," Gallow-
gate; and the "Leaping Horse," on the south side of the
Trongate. The "Saracen's Head," in particular, was a
favourite place of resort for travellers and citizens of dis-
tinction. It was patronized by the Lords of Justiciary on
circuit, and by the nobility of several counties, including
the sporting Duke of Hamilton. It was in this famous
hostelry that Dr. Samuel Johnson took up his quarters
after his tour through the Hebrides; and on his arrival,
after seating himself in front of the fire, he put a leg on
each side of the grate, and with a mock solemnity said :
"Here am I, an Enghshman, sitting by a coal fire!"
Coaches, flies, diligences, stages, and caravans started
from the different hotels for London, Edinburgh, Stirling,
Paisley, Greenock, and other towns, at various hours, and
made the passages with ^
commendable regularity, j^g^ — "''^^^^^^SS^S^
is here given) took five
hours in going — I can scarcely call it running — -from Glas-
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