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Select Views of Glasgow and Its Envirous, Engr. by J. Swan from Drawings by J. Fleming and J. Knox, with Historical & Descriptive Illustrations by J.M - Softcover
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1829 Excerpt: ... The city of Glasgow, one of the largest commercial and manufacturing cities in the empire, is pleasantly situated on the banks of the River Clyde, in the Lower Ward of the County of Lanark; and is said, with its various suburbs, to cover about seven hundred acres of ground. The Observatory, distant about a mile to the northwest of the city, as determined by the late Mr. John Cross, is in west longitude 4 15' 51", and north latitude 55 52' 10". The name of Glasgow has received various derivations, but of these, one or two only deserve any notice. According to some, its derivation is from Glas, (British,) signifying green, and coed--wood; therefore, Glascoed--the greenwood; "and this conjecture," says Wade, "is supported by the unquestioned early existence of a forest, subsequently denominated the Bishop's." But Wade, or whoever raised this conjecture, ought to have known, that in all dialects of the Celtic, where a combined name is formed of a substantive and an adjective, the adjective is never placed first; it is invariably placed last. Had this been the origin of the name, it would have been Coedglas. This fact alone is decisive of his derivation. Others explain it from the Celtic words, Eaglais--a church, and dhu--black; therefore, Eglaisdhu, or Eglasghu--the black church, or kirk of Black Friars. Unfortunately, however, for this hypothesis, it is certain, that there were no establishments of Black Friars in Scotland till the thirteenth century, a period long after Glasgow had received its name. Another derivation is from Claisdhu--a dark ravine. We know that the ancient village or hamlet of Glasgow, was situated to the north of the principal part of the present city, on The same observation applies to the derivation from words signifying Grey hound, an...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1235841960
- ISBN 13 9781235841965
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages38
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