three miles from Glasgow, will afford the lover of the picturesque a rich treat. Our view is taken from a photograph by Mr. Poulton. Bothwell Castle-bridge, Hamilton, and Cadzow, although at some distance, are easily attained by railway, and offer to the pedestrian numerous attractions. We could enumerate many other spots; but as the steamers and railways give extraordinary facilities for penetrating into all parts of the neighbourhood, we will confine our remarks to these expeditious routes, commencing with

Excursions on the Clyde.-Under this designation we propose to conduct the visitor on this famous river, and to point out some of its glorious attractions, acknowledging our obligation to Mr. Murray, the indefatigable publisher of the Glasgow "Hand-books," for the information gleaned from their pages.

The steamers which ply on the river chiefly for passenger traffic are numerous. Each season brings new boats on the river, yet the increase in number is not so great, as are the improvements in the internal fittings and external decorations of the new craft.

There are officers on the wharf, whose special duty it is to make the vessel cast loose and move on the "minute" their time is up; and that minute, although advertised only by a few of the boat-owners, is so widely made known in the pages of Murray's "Time Tables," that off they must move, and not the less so, as many of the boats trust to gain ncrease of passengers from the train leaving Glasgow for Greenock an hour after their steaming off from the Broomielaw; and although the distance from Glasgow Bridge to Greenock Custom House be but twenty-two miles, the stoppages by the way are many, and more are the times when their engines must be slowed, lest the diving-bell operations be disturbed, the dredging-machines set a rocking, or the mud-flats be made to prematurely discharge their loads of semi-liquid silt, which are meant for subsoiling the fields, and not for redistribution on the waters of the Clyde.

The upper wharf of the river on the city side is enclosed by shed and railway; the access through by gate and postern is well guarded by members of the "civic force," who, when time is up, bar the way, and no entreaty from the belated tourist will move the civil functionary to let him do other than "wait for the next boat;" and the rule and its practice are good, as it indoctrinates punctuality. As the vessel moves slowly on amidst the shipping, the traveller will be enabled to enjoy

the animated scenery at leisure. He will remark, extending from Windmill Croft downwards, a shed of magnificent length, breadth, and height, being nearly 760 feet in extent, 72 feet in span, with iron roof, and lighted from above; and this excellent structure is so enclosed that all within remains safe. On the same side, and running along the wharf, extend for many hundred yards the rails of a short line formed to unite the harbour with the railways which encircle the city on the south and west, which is chiefly for the conveyance of the minerals, coals in particular, and for the safe and rapid loading of vessels with these staple exports of the Clyde. At short distances are erected cranes, which, by steam-applied pressure, raise the heavy waggon, containing three or four tons of coal, lower it bodily till near the hold of the ship, then, unfastening the door, its contents are with advantage to the cargo allowed to tumble through.

Opposite these cranes is a slight indenture on the wharf, where many of the Cunard line of steamers, and many also of the finest and longest of the screw steamers produced on the Clyde for Southampton demand, have received their engines and been completed for sea. The gigantic shears which tower over the tiny dock indicate the objects they are placed there for; and the extensive workshops behind, but across the narrowed street, ring with the clang of many hammers, active in the finishing betimes of those marine palaces which month after month are sent thence, steam up, down the river.

URTHER down the river usually lie steamers, paddle and screw, receiving their machinery by aid of the massive crane erected there; and across the river are usually moored the steamers whose fires are out.

A line drawn from the deep-sea wharf and the monument to Nelson, half a mile above the Broomielaw

Bridge, would embrace the city proper of Glasgow ; that eastward and north of the monument being known as Calton, and when near the Rutherglen Bridge, as Bridgeton; that north of the deep-sea wharf and inland is named Anderston, and toward the western extremity is Finnieston. Opposite to the monument, but across the river, lies Hutchesontown; then Gorbals, Laurieston, Tradeston, and Maxweltown; the houses stretch to the westward. till the river-banks become occupied by the mineral railway, before noticed, and the numerous shipbuilding yards below it.

To the westward and northward of Napier's well-known dock lie the lands of Stobcross.

Beyond the green fields of Stobcross, and trending westward and southward, runs the fine range of buildings recently erected, and named St. Vincent-crescent, being the most western suburb which the growing city has thrown out in that quarter; and few others there are which can boast of a nobler range of dwellings, all tenanted fast as finished, and such was to be looked for, the river view being extensive and interesting.

Below St. Vincent-crescent, and at a bend of the river, slight now to what it was but a few years back, is the building yard of Messrs. Stephens, the first in this quarter who found it expedient to give their shipwrights a roof to work under when framing and finishing their vessels.

Below stretches Kelvinhaugh, as the rich field under the bluff to the northward and this reach of the Clyde and the banks of the river Kelvin is called; and on the height above it is the house of Yorkhill.

The iron shipbuilding yards on the south bank of the Clyde, above the Kelvin, are those of Messrs. Thomson, Napier, Smith and Rodger, and Napier.

Behind these extensive shipbuilding yards run the houses forming the village portion of Govan.

Below the Govan ferry, and close to the river, is the extensive silkmill of the Messrs. Pollock, erected in 1824.

Above the Govan mill stands the parish church, built in 1826, from a design supplied by James Smith, Esq., of Jordanhill, a philanthropic, scientific, and influential inhabitant of the parish. The tower and spire were drawn to resemble those of Stratford-upon-Avon.

Beautiful as may be the site and spire of the manse and church of Govan, yet more attractive to the stranger may have appeared the Paxton-like structures which, at the junction of the Kelvin and the Clyde, adorn the large shipbuilding yards of Tod and Macgregor, the enterprising firm mentioned in our Commercial Aspect of Glasgow.

The Kelvin has a course of upwards of sixteen miles in length, and few rivers are more useful in giving power to labour-saving machinery than it is, or more beneficial to the people of Glasgow and its suburbs, as the walks by its very pretty banks from the "point-house" opposite

Govan to the "pear-tree well," some three miles up the stream, and onwards to the magnificent aqueduct by which the ship canal connecting the Forth and the Clyde spans its course, are much frequented on the summer evenings, more especially on that of the first day of the week, there being a continuous stream of smart lads and smarter lasses all inhaling health on the wooded banks of the Kelvin; and this range of rambling has been this last season largely extended in that the classic "banks of Kelvin" with its splendid "beechen shades" are now also

open to the plebeian public, these grounds having been acquired at great cost to form the West End Park, for the westward extending city of Glasgow. This fine park was obtained for the public from the Kelvingrove property at a cost of £71,946, and £10,000 additional were expended upon its construction. It is laid out and planted with great taste, and is a favourite resort of the public. The palatial mansions forming the terrace overlooking the park, with roofs in the French style, are built upon feus from reserved ground which promises to be an important source of revenue to the Municipal Corporation. Trophies of the Crimean war, which are placed in these grounds, are represented in the engraving on the next page.

On the western bank of the Kelvin, and a short way above the Meadowside shipbuilding palace-like yards, stood of old the countryseat long believed to have been that of the Archbishops of Glasgow, their castle standing under the shadow of the spire of St. Mungo; and

centuries ago, their rustication on the quiet Kelvin side would have been pretty reasonably far apart from the hum of a city then so much. in embryo, that it stood second in all but ecclesiastical importance to the venerable but now only coal-producing, fair-holding burgh of Rutherglen, whose castle was then one of strength, though long since razed to the ground; but recent topographers assert that this house was not the bishop's, but [the more recent erection of Hutcheson, the munificent founder of the hospital, whose lands give name to the southeastern suburb of Glasgow.

The ship-yard on the Kelvin, and the mills on the river-bank above it, partially conceal from the view of the tourist on the Clyde the more ancient portion of Partick, a place now of considerable population.