Defcription of the City of Glafgow. 287 this finifter accident he immediately wrote a faithful account to his employer, adding, that the peculiar fituation of his affairs made it im poffible for him to think of marry, Mifs Bridget,, which before had entirely escaped his notice. He communicated his good opinion of the young lady to her father, explained to him his views and his profpects, and ftipulated to receive one hun-ing at that time. And thus this dred pounds as a marriage portion. great acceffion of wealth which forHodge confented, though he could tune feemed to have promifd to not confider what he did as perfect- the houfe of Hodge, vanilhing into ly generous or even juft; but he air, into thin air, no obila le redid as well as he could, what a mained to the union of honest Ja greater and a richer man would and Bridget, which accordingly topk have done with much more facility, place a few days after; when, if he fifled the reproaches of his love be treasure they found themconfcience; and made his fense of felves wond'rous rich; for the danhonour yield to what he believed his ger of difappointment having #01 intereft. more endeared them to each other, they enjoyed that happines which Providence, careful to difpenfe its bleifings with a more equal hand than repining mortals commonly. imagine, rarely permits wealth to In the mean time, honeft John difcovered thefe proceedings, and remonftrated with Bridget, who received him very tenderly and wept her hard fate, in being obliged to relinquish the man fhe had fo long and fo faithfully loved, to promote the intereft of her family; for in beftow. that light fhe confidered the facri- DESCRIPTION of the CITY of fice her father requested her to make. GLASGOW in SCOTLAND. (With an elegant engraving). GE She defired him to endeavour to dif fuade her father from his fcheme, alluring him that her affections had never wavered, but were fill his. LASGOW is the emporium of John therefore addreffed himself to the weft of Scotland, being, Hodge, who faid little to him in for its commerce and riches, the fereply, but fneaked away theepishly, cond in this northern part of Great for he was not able as yet to af- Britain. It is a large, fately, atfume so much of the manners of the well built city, flanding on a plain great man as to laugh in his face in.a manner four-fquare; and the with an unembarraffed countenance, four principal treets are the fairest when he knew himself in the wrong.for breadth, and the finest built, that The miller was now commiffioned are to be feen in one city together. to receive in London the money The houfes are all of tone, and gedue for the fhare of the ticket, and nerally uniform in height, as well to prepare every thing for the nup- as in front. The lower itories, for tials. He accordingly made a jour- the mott part, fland on valt fquare ney to the metropolis for that par- doric columns, with the arches pofe; when,what was his furprife which open into the fhops, adding to discover that the blundering prin- to the, ftrength as well as the beauty ter of the newspaper had turned a of the building. In a word, it is one 6 the wrong way and made a 9 of of the cleanlieft, moft beautiful, and it; the rectification of which un-belt built cites in Great Britain. lucky miftake had entirely reverfed the fortune of pour Hodge, for his number was drawn a blank. Of The city is joined to the fuburbs on the weft bank of the Clyde, by an handieme bridge. Where Defcription of the City of Glasgow. Where the four principal streets | ftructure was not built at the expence meet, the croffing makes a very fparicus market-place, as may be enly imagined, tince the treets are fo large. In the center ftands the cra. The houfes in thefe ftreets are all built upon one model, with plazas under them, faced with Alte, and well fathed. As you come down the hill from the northgate to this place, the Tol-. boh and Guild-hall make the north weft angle, or right-hand corner of the street, which is new rebuilt in a very magnificent manner. ! Here the town-council fit, and the magiftrates try fuch cafes as come within their cognizance, and do all their other public bufinefs; fo that, as will be easily conceived, the Tolbooth lands in the very center of the city. It is a noble ftructure of hown ftone, with a very lofty tower, and melodious hourly chimes. All thefe four principal ftreets are adorn ed with feveral public buildings. But the chief ornament of the city is the College or University, a molt magnificent and ftately fabric, confitting of feveral courts. The front to the city is of hewn ftone, and excellent architecture. Its precincts were lately enlarged by fome acres of ground purchafed for it by public money; and it is feparated from the rest of the city by a very high wall. In the higher part of the city. fands the great church, formerly cathedral and metropolitan, dedicated to St. Mungo, who was bishop here about the year 560. It is a magnificent and ftately edifice, and furprizes the beholders with its ftupendous bignefs, and the workmanship of the artizan. The feveral rows of pillars, and the exceeding high fpire which rifes from a fquare tower in the middle of the crois, fhew a wonderful piece of architecture. It is now divided into feveral preaching places, one above another. This noble of the Scotch lone, but according to the cuftom of the times, it was carried on by the affiftance of good Chriftians all over Europe. Near the church stands a ruinous caftle, formerly the refidence of the archbishop, who was legal lord or fuperior of the city, which stands on his ground, and from whom it received its first charter, and many privileges. It is encompaffed with an exceeding high wall of hewn ftone, and has a fine profpect into the city. Glasgow is a city of bufinefs, and' has the face of foreign as well as domeftic trade; nay, we may fay, it is the only city in Scotland, at this time, that apparently increases in both. The union has, indeed, answered its end to them more than to any other part of the kingdom, their trade being now formed by it; for as the union opened the door to the Scots in our Ameican colonies, the Glafgow merchants prefently embraced the opportunity; and though at its first concerting, the rabble of this city made a formidable attempt to prevent it, yet afterward's they knew better, when they found the great increase of their trade by it; for they now fend fifty fail of hips every year to virginia, New England, and other English colonies in America. The commerce of this city is greatly increased, by the late noble improve nent in the navigation from the Firth to the Clyde, by that means joining the two feas; fo that now they can fend their tobacco and fugar by water to Alloway below Sirling, and can from thence fend again to London, Holland, Hamburgh, and the Baltic. On Female Senfibility and Courage. COURAGE. 289 On FEMALE SENSIBILITY and eyes of unthinking people, is the want of that courage and refolution fo vifible in the men; but this is T has been faid of women, that farely no defect in their character, I they are incapable of attending it being a mark of their delicacy and (or at least deaf) to reafon and con-modefty, which it is the duty of viction. This, however, will appear, men to defend, and not to cenfure. upon proper examination, to be The Author of our being has pla partial and unjust; for women, inced women in a fituation, in which general, can reafon in a cool and exalted courage is feldom wanted; candid manner on any fubject, yet many instances might be prowhere their intereft and paffions are duced of women being fuperior to not concerned. Such appears to be men even in that particular. It is the acuteness of female feelings, a general obfervation, with how that wherever paffion is oppofed to much more courage and fortitude reason, it operates fo ftrongly that women bear ficknels and bodily inevery power and faculty of reafon firmities than men ; and with how is, for af time, totally fufpended; much more refolution they face the but this fhould not be argued folely misfortunes and difappointments of against women, fince we frequently life. fee mankind acting in the fame manner, in giving way to their paffions, and fuffering themselves to be hurried away by temporary fury. That there is but little difference between the two fexes, and that even the little difference there is, can arife only from education and prejudice, will clearly appear by inquiring into the state of men and women in favage countries. Among the Efquimaux, and other Norta American Indians, the women ac company the men in their fishing and hunting expeditions; in thefe excurfions, it is neceffary for the women not only to have courage to attack whatever comes in their way, but to encounter the ftorms of a tempeftuous climate, to endure the hardships of famine, and of every other evil incident to fuch a mode of life, in fo inhofpitable a region. In fome places, where the woods afford but little game for the subfiftence of the natives, and where No lefs unjust is the charge against them of inconftancy and the love of change. However they may be led away by imitating the fashionable follies of the times, yet they are lefs changeable than the men. The fair fex are in general formed for love, and feem impelled by nature to fix that paflion on fome particular object, as a lover, hufband, or child; and for want of thefe, on fome favourite animal; which attachment, inftead of being changeable, generally gains ftrength by time and poffeffion. So ftrong is this peculiarity of female nature, that many inftances have been known, where nuns, for want of fome other object, have attached them-they confequently are obliged to felves to a particular fifter, with a paffion little inferior to love; and history affords many inftances of women, who, in fpite of reafon, reflection, and revenge, have been violently attached to the perfons of their first seducers, though they had every reafon to hate and deteft them. What has leffened women in the VOL. XXV. procure that fubfiftence from the tormy feas that furround them, women fhew no lefs courage, or lefs dexterity, in truiting themselves to the waves, than the men. In Greenland, they expofe themfelves in a veffel on a ftormy ocean, that would make the refined. Eu ropean tremble. In many of the PP illands |