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Glasgow (City of Lanark co Scotland)

a city of Lanark co., Scotland; on the river Clyde, 42 miles W. of Edinburgh; the most important and populous manufacturing and commercial city of Scotland. Area with extensions is now (1920) 19.183 square miles. The city contains many public buildings, among which the most celebrated are the cathedral of St. Mungo , a splendid specimen of Gothic architecture, begun in 1123; the Court House, Hall, and the Royal Infirmary. It con- Royal Exchange, Traders' Hall, Town tains a celebrated university, founded in 1450. There are besides the Anderson College, the College of Physicians, Mechanics' Institute, and the Mitchell Library (1911), the largest public reference library in Scotland. The manufactures include cottons, bandana handkerchiefs, muslins, soap, cordage, flint-glass, and cudbear. Glasgow is also noted for its ship-building and engineering establishments, chemical works, type-foundries, and almost every kind of production in the mechanical arts. The Clyde is navigable for vessels drawing 7 or 8 feet of water; and the wharves and docks afford extensive accommodation for vessels of every description. The origin of Glasgow is generally attributed to St.

Mungo, who is said to have here founded, in 560, a bishopric, afterward erected into an archiepiscopal see. It was here that Watt first commenced to improve the steam engine; and on the Clyde, the "Comet," the first boat in Europe successfully propelled by steam, was launched in 1812. Pop. (1918) 1,111,428.