Had Loch Lomond Been In A
Happier Climate, It Would Have Been The Boast Of Wealth And Vanity
To Own One Of The Little Spots Which It Incloses, And To Have
Employed Upon It All The Arts Of Embellishment.
But as it is, the
islets, which court the gazer at a distance, disgust him at his
approach, when he finds, instead of soft lawns; and shady thickets,
nothing more than uncultivated ruggedness.
Where the Loch discharges itself into a river, called the Leven, we
passed a night with Mr. Smollet, a relation of Doctor Smollet, to
whose memory he has raised an obelisk on the bank near the house in
which he was born. The civility and respect which we found at
every place, it is ungrateful to omit, and tedious to repeat. Here
we were met by a post-chaise, that conveyed us to Glasgow.
To describe a city so much frequented as Glasgow, is unnecessary.
The prosperity of its commerce appears by the greatness of many
private houses, and a general appearance of wealth. It is the only
episcopal city whose cathedral was left standing in the rage of
Reformation. It is now divided into many separate places of
worship, which, taken all together, compose a great pile, that had
been some centuries in building, but was never finished; for the
change of religion intercepted its progress, before the cross isle
was added, which seems essential to a Gothick cathedral.
The college has not had a sufficient share of the increasing
magnificence of the place.
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