Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

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Black Friars, has been laid out within the last thirty
years, on a regular plan, for a New Town, and is
rapidly filling up with handsome houses. Rose Ter-
race is a beautiful range of buildings, in the centre of
which is the Academy, with the river and north Inch
in front ; the Crescent, Athole Place, and Charlotte
Street, are all in this quarter, and distinguished for
elegance of Architecture. To the south of the old
Town, new Streets are also laid out ; Marshall Place,
fronting the South Inch, contains several elegant houses.
The City of Perth is regularly and substantially
built, the principal Streets are broad, well paved,
cleaned, and lighted with Gas. The public buildings
are all handsome, and many of them posses^ a high
degree of architectural ornament. Most of {he Very
old part's of the Burgh have recently been rebuilt,
and the Streets improved and embellished by the
erection of handsome modern houses. In fact, the
City of Pet th is the neatest, and most regular built
Town in Scotland, if we except the New 1 Town of
Edinburgh ; the Town occupies a space of about one
and a half miles in circumference.
The Church of St John the Baptist* situated be-
tween the High Street and the South Street, is a
very ancient structure, originally built in the form of
a cross ; it has been almost entirely rebuilt at different
periods, but the remains of the primitive fabric evince
that it was once an elegant structure. It has a high
tower and a clock ; in the tower, there is a set of mu-
sical bells, covered by a portico, and an antique spire
surmounts the whole. This Church is fitted up for
three places of worship, called the east, west and
middle churches. It was in this Church that John