Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

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Dundee contains many charitable and benevolent insti-
tutions, a detail of which our limits forbid us to enter
upon. Most of the streets are neat, clean, well paved and
lighted with gas, and the houses, where they are not ele-
gant, are well built and commodious. The Nethergate
and Over, or Uppergate, strike off from the High Street
to the west, and the Murray-gate, and Seagate to the
eastward. The town is well supplied with water, every
street has a public well, conveyed to the town in leaden
pipes.
The situation of the town is most delightful, command-
ing a fine view of the opposite coast of Fife, the passage of
the river, with the numerous vessels passing up and down
the Tay. To the west of the burgh, the environs are orna-
mented by the great number of the residences of the more
opulent citizens, on the bank of the river. These man-
sions are in beautiful situations, handsomely built, and many
of them elegant, and adorned with planting and shrubery.
Upon the whole this town seems to have a right to its an-
eient appellation of " Bonny Dundee."
The town of Dundee has long been famed for its semin-
aries of education, and very early evinced a predilection for
literature. The academy is an excellent establishment,
where the ancient and modern languages, mathematics,
natural and experimental philosophy, &c. are taught by
able masters, the collection of philosophical apparatus is
extensive. There is a public grammar school, and English
schools, with many other seminaries for all the useful and
ornamental branches of modern education.