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374 A JOURNEY TO THE
To defcribe a city fo much frequented as
Glafgow, is unneceffary. The profperity of
its commerce appears by the greatnefs of
many private houfes, and a general appear-
ance of wealth. It is the only epifcopal
city whofe cathedral was left (landing in
the rage of Reformation. It is now di-
vided into many feparate places of worfhip,
which, taken all together, compofe a great
pile, that had been fome centuries in build-
ing, but ■ w:.s never finiihed ; for the
change of religion intercepted its progrefs,
before the crofs ifle was added, which feems
cffential to a Gothick cathedral.
The college has not had a fufEcient fhare
of the incrcafmg magnificence of the place.
The feffion was begun ; for it commences
on the tenth of Odloher-, and continues to
the tenth of 'June^ but the fludents appear-
ed not numerous, being, I fuppofe, not yet
returned from their feveral homes. The
divifion of the academical year into one
feffion,