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are ranges of very commodious buildings, and nu-
merous single mansions, of excellent construction *
having pleasure grounds and walks around them ;
with a most delightful prospect of the Tay — the
shipping — the opposite coast of Fife, now highly
cultivated — Invergowrie Bay — and the Carse of
Gowrie, with the noble mansions appearing in dif-
ferent parts of that fruitful and extensive plain.
West, on the lower part of this suburb, called the
Perth-road, the houses have in general been built
without any regard to regularity, and in the same
incommodious manner as the other places about
the town, — all which could easily have been made
most convenient and ornamental. Below the Perth-
road is the extensive and healthy walk of the Mag-
dalene-yard, which runs out to the southermost
point of Angus ; but is still in want of additional
improvement.
Between this street and the Overgate stand the
Churches with the noble tower at the west end, the
Grammar and English Schools, and the meeting-
house of the Wesleian Methodists. The commu-
nications to the Overgate are, by the Thorter-row,
where, it is said, the massacre of the town's people
by General Monk was stopped, by the hideous
i spectacle of an infant sucking its murdered mother;
to the west, by two passages through the Church-
yard, called Stiles, — by the School-wynd, in which
stands the respectable dissenting meeting of Burgh-
ers, now united to their brethren, and forming only
one association, — by the Long-wynd, where those
in the town who are acquainted chiefly with the
Gaelic language have a convenient chapel, in full