Towns > Dundee > 1822 - Dundee delineated; or, A history and description of that town, its institutions, manufactures and commerce

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ago, with much judgment, under the management of the
*ate Bailie Myles, at the west-shore, and gives easy access
to passengers at all times.
Manufactures are on a very increasing and enlarged scale.
The staple Osnaburgh hath advanced greatly : a single
weaver may now earn £50 a-year by his daily labour.
Buildings have been greatly extended. There are now
five churches well occupied and frequented, exclusive of
every denomination of sectaries. A new market place for
butchery meat, and a slaughter place, hath been built. We
have an elegant Hall for the nine incorporated trades, a
handsome English chapel, and a Glassite octagon ; and these
give real ornament to all around. The Town-house, a
Tolbooth, is a piece of noble architecture ; but its present
situation can never be viewed to advantage or justice to the
architect. Our forefathers (and even some of the present
generation) seem to have looked no farther than their noses
when they turned proprietors and builders. Never was a
building (if we except the Mansion-house of London, and
the Sailors' Hall here) so murdered in situation. It is set
down in a hole fitted only for a hog's stye, and what is to
be much lamented, it ia one of those capital blunders which
cannot, without immense expence, be now-remedied.
Three new Streets have been recently and judiciously laid
cut by the public spirited and persevering exertions of Pro-
vost Jiiddoch. One of these is literally scooped out of a
buge rock by force of gun-powder. Two of these com-
municate with the shipping, and the other (Tay Street)
forms a convenient access to the-country and turnpike.
The Meadows are, of late, partially drained. They are
enclosed with stone walls, and laid out (though yet greatly
deficient) for washing and bleaching the linens of the in-
habitants. A back road by the town is also begun to be
made through these Meadows, and will (it is hoped) soon
communicate to the turnpikes.
Retail Shops are found in every street and corner, and
we are fully supplied with every family article ; and (in ge-
neral) you are vvsli and civilly treated, in return for your
money.