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GUIDE AND DIRECTORY

TO

HELENSBURGH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD,

SEVENTH EDITIOK.

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HELENSBUEGH :

MACNEUE & BUT

& 52 East Princes Street, aad 19 West Clyde Street,

1875.

PREFACE.

7.

In issning the seventh edition of the Helensburgh Direc-
tory, the publishers, remembering the kind apprecia-
tion it received when published by the late Mr Battrum,
trust that it will meet with a similar reception.

Although imperfect in many respects, considerabie
care has been expended in its compiling. It is now
larger than anj^ previous issue, and the publishers doubt
not it will be found useful as a book of reference in this
daily increasing district.

The map this year has been improved, showing the
new feus, houses, and streets that have been made ; and,
altogether, every effort has been made to render tbe
Directory worthy of the town and neighbourhood.

September' 1875.

NAMES OF THE NEW POLICE COMMISSIONERS,

Thomas Steveu, Chief Mag. j Wilhaiii Bryson.

J. W. M'Culloch, Jun. Mag.

John Stuart, Jun. Mag.

Einlay Campbell.

Alexander Breingan.

Andrew Pro van.

John Crauib.
Donald Murray.
John Dingwall,
B. S. MFarlane.
Martin M' Kay.

Towii-CJerk — Geo, Maclachlan. Treasurer — K. D, Orr.

Macneur & Bkyden (successors to the late W. Battrum),
House Factors and Accountants. House Register published as
formerly.

CONTENTS OF GUIDE.

HELENSBURGH— page

ITS ORIGIN, ..,.,..., 9

OLD RECORDS, H

PROVOSTS, 14

CHURCHES, 22

BANKS, 26

TOWN HALL, . 27

GENERAL FEATURES 28

THE HIGHLANDMAN'S ROAD, . . ... 32

THE OLD ROAD. . . . • 38

ROW, 41

THE SMUGGLER'S OR WHISTLER'S GLEN, . . 51

THE GARELOCH, 54

CARDROSS. . 60

GLEN FRUIN, 69

ROSENEATH, .......... 81

LUSS, . , 94

EXCURSIONS, 101

THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT, .... 102

BOTANY OF THE DISTRICT, .105

PASTIME AND SPORT—

CRICKET, Ill

BOWLS, 112

CURLING, 112

SHOOTING, ....,.,.. 112

ANGLING, 116

HENRY BELL 125

ILLUSTRATIONS.

PAGK

VIEW OF BIS.'LE^SBJJ'RG'R— Frontispiece.

KOW, 42

AEDENCAPLE CASTLE, .....•• 44

THE SMUGGLER'S OR WHISTLER'S GLEN, . . . 51

FASLANE CHAPEL, 57

WEST SHANDON HOUSE, . . . • • • 59

OLEN FRUIN, NEAR DUNFIN, 70

BANNACHRA CASTLE, - . 78

ROSENEATH CASTLE, 81

ROSENEATH CHURCH, &c., 88

HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

The earliest notice of a public kind concerning Helensburgh
appears in an extinct newspaper, called the Glasgow Journal^
under date 11th January, 1776, in the form of an advertise-
ment, and runs thus : —

** Notice. — To be fued immediately, for building upon, at a very
reasonable rate, a considerable piece of ground upon the shore of
Malig, opposite Greenock. The land lies on both sides of the road
leading from Dumbarton to the Kirk of Row. The ground will be
regularly laid out for houses and gardens, to be built according to a
plan, &c. There is a freestone quarry on tbe ground.

"For the accommodation of the feuars, the proprietor is to encloaa
a large field for grazing their milk cows, &c.

"N.B. — Bonnet-makers, stocking, linen, and woollen weavers,
will meet with proper encouragement. There is a large boat building
at the place for ferrying men and horses with chaises."

The idea of founding a town on these shores suggested
itself to the great-grandfather of the present Sir James
Colquhoun of Luss, who purchased the land of Malig or
Milrigs from Sir John Shaw of Greenock, and in further-
ance of this design, laid it out in prospective streets, and
advertised it to the public. The town itself, as appears from
the advertisement, was nameless for some years. A very
old form of the name of the barony was Muleig, with which
the local pronunciation accords, and the infant town was

10 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

recognised under tliat patronymic, or tlie more unmeaning
one of tlie New Town, till the course of events brought a
change. Probably its name was a matter of considerable
family discussion, till at last some ingenious friend solved
the difficulty by happily suggesting it should be called after
the lady of its new owner, "Helensburgh." A more noble
and permanent memorial of that distinguished lady could
hardly have been devised than this happy suggestion gave
birth to.

Notwithstanding the tempting advertisement above quoted
it seems to have made slow progress for many a year. In
1794, we find from an old rental-book, that there were only
about seventeen houses built on the lands, and the gross
feu-duty paid to the superior amounted to only .£8 16s. 8d.
Of the few houses then built, only one or two now stand.*

Helensburgh was created a free burgh of barony by royal
charter, dated 28th July, 1802. Under this charter, the
government of the burgh is committed to a provost, two
bailies, and four councillors, and weekly markets and four

* The following seem to have been the first adventurous f euars, and
the rates of feu-duty paid by them. What a contrast it affords be-
twixt the value of land half a century since and its price now ! We
have heard it said, that the whole shore ground from the pier to the
east boundary of the town was offered at a perpetual rent of £1 to the
ancestor of one of the Malig feuars, and refused as too serious a
speculation.

William Stewart, t

£0 6 8

John M'Aulay,

£0 13

4

Donald M'Kinlay,

0 13 4

Malcolm Taylor,

1 0

0

Andrew M'Lachlan

0 6 8

David Eeoch,

0 6

8

Kobert Watson,

0 6 8

Eobert Colquhoun,

1 0

0

James Walker,

0 13 4

Agnes Ferguson,

0 13

4

Donald Smith,

0 6 8

Archd. M'Auslane,

0 14

0

John M'Naughten,

0 8 0

John Grovan,

0 6

8

WiUiam Bruce,

0 6 8
John M'Aus

Patrick Gray,
^ane, 6s. 8d.

0 8

0

t William Stewart's feu seems to have been without the boundary of the burgh
as existed in 1802.

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 11

annual fairs are appointed. In a community of seventeen
houseliolders, one naturally thinks that considerable in-
genuity must have been exercised at times to find a staff of
seven such officials to govern the other ten, and we conse-
quently find among the old records repeated instances of
householders fined for failure to accept the honour conferred
on them by their townsmen. As in some degree throwing
a measure of light on the past history of this burgh, v/e give
a few extracts from the older official records. There is not
much amusement to be gleaned from them, but they may
afford insight into the inner life of an infant town, and thus
prove of some interest to the curious in such matters : —

EXTRACTS moM RECOEDS of the TOWN COUNCIL of
HELENSBURGH.

By-Laws.

Helensburgh, WihNov., 1807.
Marhets and Fairs. — The Magistrates and Town Council convened,
** agreed that the annual markets of Helensburgh should be published
in the newspapers and handbills ; and likewise inserted in the alman-
ack, and also the following articles concerning the same — viz., all
cattle coming and entering the market for sale, shall pay the follow-
ing dues: — For each cow or horse a penny ; sixpence for each score of
sheep ; a sixpence for each sow ; and if sold to pay the above same
rates when returning from the market. And we likewise further
agree, that the two town officers are authorised to uplift the same at
their proper stations, and to be paid only ojBf the funds for so doing. "

Attendance at Church, Officers and their Halherts.

Helensburgh, Qth Jan., 1808.
We, the Magistrates, having convened this day, we therefore
ordain that the two town officers shall attend church in their uniform
with the Magistrates, Only with the exception that the town hal-
berts are not daily required, but upon certaia occasions to be ordered
by the Magistrates.

John CampbeWs disobedience in relation to the above By-Law.

(Literatim.)

Helensburgh, 10^^ March, 1808.
, . . And likewise the Magistrates having ordered their twa

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officers npon Saturday the 16th of February, to attend divine service
at the Rq-w Church, upon Sunday the 17th of February ; but upon
John Campbell's disobeying our orders thereanent, it is agreed by the
Council, that the said John Campbell be decerned in the fine of one
pound sterling for misbehaving in such a manner, and likewise liable
to pay the above fine for every Sabbath and fast day lawfully or-
dained he absents himself without a lawful excuse.

Court days — Absence of Magistrates.

At Helensburgh, the third day of July eighteen hundred and nine
years, — Convened the Magistrates and Town Council of Helensburgh,
and have taken into our consideration the following articles: — 1st, We
have mutually agreed that our first court will be held upon Tuesday
the 10th current, at the New Theatre, and five o'clock in the after-
noon, and regularly, afterwards, the first Tuesday of every month ;
2d, We have likewise agreed that, after the Provost is regularly
warned by the officer to any of the courts and not attends, that he will
be liable to a fine of ten shillings sterling, unless a regular notice be
given to the Council beforehand as impossible to attend ; the Bailie,
as above, a fine of five shillings, and councillors half-a-crown.

(Signed) Henry Bell.

John Moody.
WILLLA.M Michael.

Helensburgh, IQth March, 1810.
(A long minute, in which it is ordained that an assessment of one
penny per pound of the valued yearly rent be exacted annually from
each proprietor, till the town is by this means supplied with water. )

Non-attendance of Burgesses at Public Meetings.

Wih September, 1811. — It is moved and unanimously voted that,
when intimation was given to the feuars by the bell, through the
streets of the Burgh, to attend any meeting of the Magistrates and
Council, any magistrate, councillor, or feuar, who shall fail to attend,
shall forfeit and pay the sum of two shillings and sixpence sterling
of a fine for each failure, without a reasonable excuse, to be levied by
legal measures if not paid.

Declinature of Office by a Bailie.

^th December, 1812. — A meeting of the feuars called by the bell. —
Bailie Jardine stated to the meeting, that Mr. John Gray, the other
bailie named at last election, had been called on to signify his accept-
ance of the office, when he refused to do so; and as he had hitherto
failed to attend any of the meetings, he considered it proper to call
the meeting to consider what should be done in this matter, &c.

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 13

The meeting considering the propriety of keeping up the Magis-
tracy, declared that Mr Gray had forfeited his office of Bailie and the
fine annexed to his refusal, and they therefore proceeded to elect a new
Bailie in his stead, &c.

Members of the Council to sit in one seat in the Church.

The meeting, by a majority, fix that all the Bailies and Councillors
who shall go to the Row Church, shall at all times sit in the seat
appropriated for them, and failing any of them so sitting in church,
he shall forfeit a shilling for each offence, to be levied by the treasurer
for behoof of the common good of the burgh.

Court Terms.

The meeting consider it is sufficient to have a court once every
quarter, and therefore, they fix that in time coming, a court shall be
held on the first Saturday of every quarter ; reserving, however,
to call occasional courts, if necessity requires, oftener.

John M'Auslane and John Napier fined for declining office.

Wth September, 1813. — Mr John M'Auslane paid five shillings for
declining to be a Councillor, after election ; and Mr Thomas Napier
paid ten shillings for declining the office of Bailie, after election.
These two fines paid to the treasurer.

Gratuity to Officer.

12th September^ 1815. — It was moved and agreed to, that each
feuar shall annually pay one shilling to the officer ; and that, in
respect of that allowance, the officer to be elected shall be obliged to
do all the business relating pertaining to the town, warn to. and
attend all meetings, &c. The said sum to be levied by the officer
himself, — the officer to be continued during pleasure.

Fines for declining Office.

llth September, 1823. — James Colquhoun paid ten shillings, as a
fine for refusing to accept the office of a Bailie. Anlay Lennox paid
ten shillings also for declining the same office. Robert Leuchars and
William Lennox each paid five shillings for declining to accept the
office of Councillors.

Customs for Fairs let for Five Shillings.

6th November, 1821. — The custom-s for the fairs were let for fir«
ehiUings to Kobert McNeil, highest bidder.

14 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

List of the Provosts of the Burgh of Helensburgh from 1807 to 1868.

1807-9. Henry Bell.

1811-28. Jacob Dixon.

1828-34. James Smith, of Jordan-
hiU.

1834. James Bain.

1835. John M Farlane.

1836. Richard Kidston.
1837-9. James Breingan.

1839. James Bain.

1840-9. Richard Kidston.

1850-3. Peter Walker.

1853. James Smith, of Jor-
danhill.

1854-7. William Brown.

1857-63. William Drysdale.

1863. Alexander Breingan.

But more prosperous days were dawning on Helensburgh.
With the introduction of steam navigation, it began rapidly
to increase in size and population. As the residence of
Henry Bell, and scene of many of his labours, it is inti-
mately linked with the history of steam traffic. Tn 1812,
the little Comet, built by Wood and Company, of Port-
Glasgow, was stationed on the Clyde by Henry Bell, and
made her first trip to Helensburgh safely, notwithstanding
the dismal prophecies and doubts even of its well-wishers, at
a speed of about five miles an hour against a head wind.
Fame and fortune ought to have flowed to its enterprising
proprietor. Fame did flow to him; fortune only in the
shape of an ugly stone obelisk. From the date of steam
communication with Glasgow, Helensburgh grew rapidly in
importance. It presented an easily accessible and pleasant
summer retreat for Glasgow merchants and their families,
and a pleasant residence for those retired from business.
The lands were admirably adapted for feuing, lying in a
gentle slope upwards from the Firth of Clyde ; and in the
old feuing plan wide streets were laid ofi" at right angles
with each other. With the exception of the front street,
where most of the shops were kept, the houses were built
detached, and surrounded by lawn and shrubbery, and con-
siderable emulation prevailed regarding the neatness of the
houses and the cultivation of the gardens. This uniform

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plan it is to be regretted, was afterwards departed from, and
in consequence some of the best feuing lots were compara-
tively spoiled for want of proper access.

In 1846 a Police Act was obtained, under which the
affairs of the town are now managed. The governing offi-
cials were increased in number, and the powers conferred
on them enlarged, so as to enable them to carry out modern
ideas of improvement and order. Almost simultaneously
with this Police Act, gas was introduced into the burgh.
The streets formerly were badly kept and ill-drained, and
not lighted at all. They are now, after nearly twenty years'
indefatigable effort on the part of the corporation, nearly all
in good condition, and though not so well lighted by any
means as they ought to be, and might be, they are better
than most of country towns.

One great drawback to the prosperity of the place for
many years was the want of a good harbour. The original
plan of the town included a harbour. A provision of £1500
was made by Government towards its formation, on condi-
tion of an equal sum being raised in the locality ; but as the
sum on the subscription list, though it reached £1100, never
attained to £1500, the matter was allowed to drop. This
was before the era of steam navigation, and long before col-
lecting money in aid of any useful object was reduced to a
science. The pier, originally a stone dyke, for landing and
embarking passengers from steamers, by small boats, was
lengthened and increased by degrees. It was under the
management of a committee of subscribers till 1834, when
a piece of ground to the south-east of the pier was, through
the enterprise and liberality of Provost Smith, purchased
from a Mr Henry Taylor for the Helensburgh Town Coun-
cil. In order to turn this acquisition to account, Provost

16 HELENSBURGH GUIDE,

Smitli and the Committee of Management of tlie Pier first
resolved to erect a bazaar, or market-place, on it ; but this
plan was superseded by Sir James Colqulioun making a
grant to the Council of all the vacant ground eastward to
the granary, on condition of the whole being kept clear for
future improvement of the pier and accommodation of pas-
sengers. As the original subscribers to the pier had no
right of property in it, they transferred their management
to the Town Council, in hope of an improved and enlarged
harbour being erected. This has never been obtained; but
a tolerable pier now supersedes the old stone dyke at which
steamboat passengers used to land; the want of a harbour
is, however, now less likely to be felt since direct railway
communication with Glasgow has been opened up. Since
the opening of the railway in 1857, a great impulse has
been given to building in the neighbourhood, and the size
of the place has almost doubled, as well as the value of pro-
perty increased. The population in 1851 was, according to
the census then taken, 2895; in 1861, it was 4769, and
and has since that time rapidly increased. Probably now it
reaches to 6000. During the past two or three years the pro-
gress of building has, notwithstanding a continual demand for
houses, very much decreased. Various causes have contri-
buted to this, but chiefly amongst them were, we think, the
want of regular water supply, and the limited number of walks
and drives in the neighbourhood available to invalids. These
operated very seriously in the way of speculators, at least,
erecting houses for sale, and were a continual source of
grumbling and discontent; but a water supply has now been
introduced by the Town Council, under the provisions of the
General Police Act. On the Mains-Hill, above the town, a
large reservoir has been constructed for storage of various

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 17

springs and small streams, and from whence it is distributed
through the town. In March, 1868, the works were for-
mally opened by the lady of Provost Breingan, and since then
there has been an ample supply. Of the permanence of the
supply, it is, perhaps, yet premature to speak, but in point
of quality, it bids fair to equal that of any town, and it is to
be hoped the measure will prove what it is undoubtedly
designed to be — a permanent blessing to the community.

"Under the old charter, the bounds of the burgh extended
from the Glenan Burn to the old Luss road at Drumfork on
the east, and about as far northward as the present line of
King Street. The marches of the barony passes on the
south — in fact, formed the northern boundary; but the
precise line is now somewhat difficult of definition, partly
from the fact of the boundary stones having been removed,
and the discontinuance of the old custom of perambulating
the marches. This was observed annually by the magis-
trates and council in official character, accompanied by a
crowd of boys, who, at each march-stone, hedge, or dike, re-
ceived such an allowance of corporal chastisement, adminis-
tered by the town-officers, as was deemed necessary to impress
the recollection of the boundary line on the memory of the
rising generation. The practice was said to have been most
efficacious in securing a clear and decided recollection of
the old landmarks. In obtaining the Act of Parliament,
.these old boundaries were very wisely extended. It now
reaches from the East Toll, on the one side, to Ardencaple
wood on the other, a distance of nearly a mile, and runs
back from the sea rather more than a quarter of a mile, —
thus covering a very considerable area. The general aspect
of Helensburgh from the water in front is that of a long,
straggling white town, with a screen of hill and wood be-

18 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

yond. Owing to the gradual slope of the ground, a great
portion of the town is not visible from the water, those of
the upper and lower parts of the town, with a few of the
principal buildings, alone standing out prominently to view.
The two best points for obtaining a favourable view are
from the rising ground on the Dumbarton road, near Lyles-
ton, and the point below Hoseneath Castle. From the first
of these the scene that opens to the eye on a clear day is
like one of fairyland. Each house and building in Helens-
burgh stands out clearly defined on a gently rising upland,
and in their midst the tall spires of the churches pointing
heavenward, glisten in the sunlight. On the west, hemming
in the town, is the leafy barrier of Ardencaple woods, and
beyond the long promontory of Row stretches seemingly
across the deep blue waters of the loch, in whose depths are
mirrored the white sails of the boats and surrounding hills.
Still beyond rise like an impassable barrier, the bold ridges
of " Argyle's Bowling Green," ever varying in their trans-
formations as cloud or sunshine, or soft vapoury mist, rests
on their furrowed brows and hoary peaks. The eye never
wearies of the scene; for, though scarcely twice does it pre-
sent the same aspect, that aspect is always beautiful, and
the beautiful in nature and art alike stir the diviner nature
within us without satiating desire or wearying the feasting
eye. Day by day, and hour by hour, as you gaze on it, a
fuller, fresher sense of its glorious beauty showers upon you,
filling the heart with an inexpressible poetry of beauty, that
dwells in the memory for ever. A better point of view for
a painter or a sketcher, however, is Roseneath. There an
almost equally good view of the town is obtainable, and the
ranee of scenerv behind and on either side is more limited.
The range of hills stretching across from Drumfork to Glen-

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 19

fruin, beautifully wooded in part, and softened down by
distance into harmony with the rest of the scene, with the
lazy clouds lingering about the highest points, as if loath to
leave the scene, form an appropriate background to the pic-
ture ; while the long, irregular sweep of the bay in the fore-
ground, nowhere else so well seen, gives a fitting unity to
the whole view, — a view, the remembrance of which will
not pass away readily, but will, in future years
" Enter unawares upon the mind,
With all its beauteous imagery. ''

The general plan of Helensburgh, as we have already said,
is a good one, and, if fully carried out, cannot fail to render
it, so far as available means are concerned, both an attractive
and healthy place of residence. It is built, as we have men-
tioned on ground rising with an easy ascent from the sea;
and for fully a mile back this gradual elevation continues.
It possesses, therefore, great facilities for thorough drainage,
and for the maintenance of every necessary sanitary regula-
tion. The town is laid ofi" in rectangular squares, each of
these containing about two acres of ground. There are
abundance of wide open streets, securing a larger space of
breathing ground than is found in most modern towns ; and
there is little danger of overcrowding the buildings, for,
except in the two principal streets, Clyde and Princes Streets,
the number of houses on each acre is restricted to at most
four, and in many cases to two. The houses, save in these
two streets, are chiefly in the cottage order, offering every
variety of design and size of construction, though of late
years taste has run more in erection of mansions of a large
and handsome appearance, equal if not superior in many
cases to the best country seats. To each house is attached
a considerable piece of garden ground. These gardens are

20 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

generally tastefully laid off in flowers and shrubbery ; and
as a degree of emulation prevails in the cultivation of flowers,
this leads to the exhibition of considerable neatness in the
aspect of these gardens ; and in the summer mornings the
atmosphere is at times so laden with sweet perfumes, arising
like incense from them, that you almost realise what dwelling
in a land of spices means. Owing to its southern exposure,
and comparative immunity from cold winds and sharp frosts,
flowers attain great beauty and perfection, and many varie-
ties of plants, found elsewhere thriving only under shelter,
grow freely here in the open air.

Attractive as it is, it might have been made much more so
with the means at command of the corporation and inhabit-
ants. The prevailing error which seems to rule at Scotch
watering-places has done something to mar the beauty and
destroy the attractiveness of Helensburgh as a popular
resort. The idea all along has been to conform it in appear-
ance as much as possible to a commercial town, which it never
will be. All bits of attractive scenery have been carefully
removed ; the streets have been levelled with most judicious
care ; the streams bridged over and covered out of sight, and
the square and park are utterly divested of any ornament
whatever. "Well macadamised road, and plenty of it, is no
doubt a great boon — indeed, so is plenty of roadway, whether
well or ill kept ; but the great fact so thoroughly kept in
view in Continental and English watering-places, that the
prosperity of the place depends more on its attractiveness
than on its purely useful features, has been very much
ignored here. The idea in practice has been, — rout the
visitor or inhabitant out of every cover; keep him to acres
of bare street; give him no shelter, no pleasant wooded
haunt; let the noonday sun bask and beat on him ; provide him

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 21

with a park instead of a shade ; let there be no cooling foun-
tain refreshing to the sense anywhere ; and if, overpowered
by heat and dust, and anxiously longing for a plunge in the
clear inviting waters of the bay, the visitors should seek this
solace, keep him back from, it by denying him every facility
for such a pleasure. This is precisely the result of the
erroneous Scotch theory regarding the character of a water-
ing-place. With such an acreage of broad street, which can
at best be but indifferently kept, what was to prevent part
of it being planted with rows of tall trees, with sufficient
seats near them, which would have formed a pleasant summer
haunt to invalids and loungers; beneath whose shade
children could play in safety, and the pent-up stranger,
avoiding the glare and the heat of the dusty road, have ob=>
tained refreshing shelter and recreation 1 What was to
prevent the erection of a few fountains here and there in
public places, where the thirsty might drink, and at least the
dull monotony of road and square be enlivened and made
picturesque]* What was to prevent the adorning of the
public park with some kind of shade, which would tempt
stragglers, loiterers, and readers into its precincts? What
was to prevent the providing of bathing accommodation,
such as abounds at almost every other sea-coast village of any
note 1 What is to prevent all this being done now? Nothing
but a wholly mistaken idea of what a watering-place should
be, and of what is necessary to secure its permanent popu-
larity, by securing the comfort and adding to the out-door
recreations and pleasures of those who frequent it. These
are matters, however, which are beginning to impress them-

* This want is now being removed by the erection of public wella
in various places supplied by the Mains-Hill water.

22 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

selves more fully on the minds of those interested in our
burgh, and which we hope, ere many years have passed, to see
accomplished, and Helensburgh the first in attractiveness,
as it is first in situation, of all Scottish watering-places.

Of late years the rapidly-increasing population has efiected
a change in the character of the property in the front street
— most of the old buildings have been taken down, and re-
placed by handsome modern erections fitted up for shops.
Of these there are almost every variety, some of them equal
to those in the first towns in the kingdom, and in which an
abundant supply of every article essential to comfort and
luxury can be procured. There are no buildings of any
antiquity to interest the visitors. The almost only public
buildings are the churches and banks. The first in order
amongst the churches is

THE ESTABLISHED CHUECH.

It stands pleasantly situated close by the sea-shore, and is
one of the first objects which greets the visitor's eye approach-
ing the town by the water. It is a neat substantial build-
ing, but its front view is completely obscured by an enormous
granary, rising in the bloom of its native ugliness, directly
opposite. The church was built in 1847, at an expense of
about .£2700, and was then intended as a chapel of ease to
the parish church at Row. It was afterwards considerably
enlarged and is now seated for 800. In July 1862, by a
decree of the Court of Teinds, it was erected into a parish
church, and Helensburgh attached as a parish quoad sacra.
The boundaries of the parish extend on the east to Cardross
parish, on the west to Ardencaple, and on the north to the
northern boundaries of the farms of Kirkmichael, Stuck,
Mallig, Glenan, Easterton and Woodend. The expense of

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the endowment was defrayed principally by the munificent
bequest of tlie late James Hntcbeson, Esq., long a member
of the congregation, amounting to £2500, to which Sir
James Colquhoun generously added X300, and the remainder
was made up by grant from the General Assembly's Endow-
ment Fund.

The Rev. John Lindsay, the present pastor, was ordained
to the charge in 1847.

There is a flourishing school under the superintendance of
Mr. John Eraser, in connection with the church.

WEST ESTABLISHED CHURCH.

A new station in connection with the Established Church
was opened about a year ago in William Street. The con-
gregation met for sometime in a large room used for photo-
graphic purposes by Mr. William Young. There has now
been erected in that street a neat iron chapel, capable of
holding about 300 people, in which the congregation meet.
The Rev. John Baird has filled the charge since its com-
mencement.

THE WEST FREE CHURCH,

A very handsome building with a graceful spire, in Colqu-
houn Square, erected from plans furnished by D. Hay, Esq.,
of Liverpool, 1852. Formerly a square plain erection stood
here, built in 1827 by the Original Seceders of whom the
Rev. John Anderson was minister. The Rev. John Ander-
son and his congregation, shortly prior to the Disruption,
joined the Establishment, and at the Disruption left it.
They secured the church building, and for many years it was
the only Free Church in Helensburgh. Mr. Anderson, dis-

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tinguished both as a preacher and author continued minister
of this church till 1863, when, in consequence of failing
health, a colleague, the Rev. Alex. Anderson of Markinch,
was appointed to the charge, and since the death of the E,ev.
John Anderson in 18G7, has continued sole minister of the
church, which is a large and increasing one.

There are schools in connexion with the church under
the superintendence of Mr. Sutherland.

PAPvK FREE CHURCH.

The accommodation for the adherents of the Free Church
being found much too limited, a new congregation was
formed in 1862, and this church erected. It is also in the
Gothic style of architecture. The plans were prepared by-
John Honeyman, Esq., Glasgow, and the mason work exe-
cuted by Mr. James M'Kinnon of Helensburgh. In many
respects it is the finest building of the kind in Helensburgh?
both as regards beauty of structure and comfort. The Rev.
Mr. Carslaw is pastor.

THE UNITED PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
This Christian denomination in 1842 opened a preaching
station here, in the Town Hall, and in 1845 erected a place
of worship in King Street, now used as a public hall, which
was seated for about 450. The Rev. Alexander MacEwan,
now of Claremont Church, Glasgow, was ordained minister
of it in 1845, and continued in the charge till 1856, when
the present pastor, the Rev. David Duff, was ordained.
The place of worship being found too small, the one now
occupied by them was built and opened in 1861. It occu-
pies a very prominent position on the rising ground, and
forms one of the most attractive features to the landscape.

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It was built by Mr. James M'Kinnon after plans furnished
by "William Spence, Esq., architect, Glasgow, and cost up-
wards of £5000.

THE CONGREGATIONAL CHAPEL.

This body erected the first place of worship in Helens-
burgh. A square building, popularly known as the "Taber-
nacle," was erected by them, nearly on the site of the
present chapel, in 1802, and remained for probably twenty
years the only chapel in the place. The first minister of the
congregation was the Eev. Mr. Syme, succeeded in 1809 by
the Rev. John Edwards, afterwards by the Rev. Mr. Boag,
and in 1824 the Rev. John Arthur, was ordained to the
charge. In 1858, the Rev. James Troup, since resigned,
was chosen colleague with Mr. Arthur. Mr. Troup after-
wards removed to Lerwick, and the Rev. Mr. Arthur,
having from advanced years, retired, the Rev. Wm. Milne
was ordained in 1866. The original chapel was abandoned in
1850, and the present one, a neat building but for an appar-
ently disproportioned height of roof, erected nearly on its
site, in James Street. The first Sabbath schools in the dis-
trict were commenced in connexion with this church.

ST. MICHAEL AND ALL ANGELS' EPISCOPAL

CHURCH.

The Episcopal congregation was founded in Helensburgh
in 1814. In 1842, a church was built and dedicated to the
Holy Trinity. It was a small, plain edifice and was origi-
nally intended to accommodate the Episcopalians of Dum-
barton as well as Helensburgh ; but there is now an
Episcopal church at the former place. In 1851, a school-

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house was built in connexion witli it, and in 1857, a parson-
age. The erection of these was owing chiefly to the
exertions of the then Incumbent, the Rev. John Bell,
who took a very active part in promoting the means of
education in the district.

The present Incumbent, the Rev. J. Stuart Syme, suc-
ceeded to the charge in 1862, and Trinity Church having
become too small for the wants of the congregation, it was
in 1866 pulled down, and the present handsome structure
of St. Michael and All Angels erected on its site. This new
church is in the early French style and internally very
striking in its design. It was formally opened and conse-
crated on 7th May, 1868. The architect is R. Anderson,
Esq., Edinburgh, and the builder, Mr. James M'Kinnon,
Helensburgh.

BAPTIST MEETING HOUSE.

There is also a Baptist meeting-house in King Street,
where a church, formerly under the pastoral care of the late
Mr. Robert Dickie, meets. This congregation has existed
for many years.

ROMAN CATHOLIC CHAPEL.

This religious persuasion has also a chapel in Maitland
Street. As yet, there is no stated priest in charge. It is
supplied from Dumbarton and Glasgow by various priests.

BANKS.

It speaks well for the economical habits of the population,
that the first bank in Helensburgh was a savings bank.
It was promoted, about 1827, by Mr. James Smith of Jor-

HELENSBURGH GUIDE. 27

danhill, the late Mr. Richard Kidston, and others, and
managed gratuitously and successfully for many years by Mr.
Peter M'Callura, draper. About 1841, a branch of the
"Western Bank of Scotland was opened, — first under the
management of Mr. Alexander Campbell of Roseneath, then
of Mr. John Robson, and afterwards of Mr. Robert D. Orr,
who continued in it till the suspension of that establishment.
In 1857, the Clydesdale Banking Company opened the
premises held by the "Western Bank, with the enterprising
agent of the closed establishment, Mr. Orr, as their manager,
and shortly afterwards they built the handsome offices now
possessed by them in James Street.

In 1856, the Union Bank of Scotland opened a branch
under the management of their present agent, Mr William
Drysdale, long the esteemed provost of the burgh ; and in
1861 they opened their present elegant and commodious
establishment in Colquhoun Square.

In 1867, the Bank of Scotland opened a branch in Clyde
Street, under the management of Provost Breingan.

There is but one other public building, the Town Hall,
where the corporation meets, and the courts are held; but
it presents no claim to architectural exterior or internal con-
venience. It has been long a standing joke, till, " As ugly
as the Town Hall," has almost turned into a proverb. It
was originally a theatre ; appears to have been built early
in the present century, and in the palmy days of the drama,
was well supported and liberally patronised by the surround-
ing country gentry. But the stage has long been darkened ;
the curtain has fallen for ever. A wall has been run up

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dividing tlie proscenium from the remaining part of the
house. The whilome pit and boxes now form the body of
the Court Hall, where the audience listen to the practical
effusions of town-councillors instead of the eloquence of
Shakespeare ; and the gallery is devoted to rats and spare
lumber. Behind the scenes were lately retailed grocery
goods ; now, telegraphic messages are despatched thence to
the ends of the earth ; while the ground floor, sacred of old
to descending and ascending ghosts, and the tomb of Thes-
pian brigands and murderers, is transformed into police cells.
Truly a change has passed over all 1 It is gratifying, how-
ever, to learn that there is a speedy prospect of a new Town
Hall being erected on an eligible site, and which will supply
a growing want for a place of meeting and other purposes
connected with the Burgh.

The Baths, now Queen's Hotel, a large square castellated
building, occupies an imposing site fronting the sea at the
east end of the burgh. It is of importance as one of the
landmarks of the late Henry Bell's labours here.

The educational wants of the community have not been
neglected, any more than their religious wants. There are.
institutions and academies adapted to every class of society,
and some of them of the highest character.

Amongst other objects worth a visit to Helensburgh, is
the Cemetery. Helensburgh being only a quoad sacra parish
of recent date, no provision was made in connexion with
the church for a burying-ground, and till recently the only
place of interment was at Bow, a distance of rather more
than two miles. But as, independently of the distance, the
parish burying-ground was inconveniently small and dis-
gracefully kept, and such a memorial of apathy and indiff-
ence of the heritors and kirk-session, it was resolved, some

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ten years since, to erect a cemetery at the east extremity
of Helensburgh. The ground has been tastefully laid off and
enclosed ; a superintendent's house has been built within it,
and such rules and regulations adopted, as will secure ita
future maintenance and good preservation. A considerable
part of the ground is devoted to raising nursery plants and
flowers, which form an interesting feature to visitors; and
the thorough order and neatness in which the whole is kept,
reflect the highest credit on the superintiendent. Already
one end of the ground is occupied by many very hand-
some tombstones, some of them the work of Mossman, and
placed with regard to position and order. The locality of
the cemetery is good, and the soil of a light, gravelly nature,
and drained to a great depth. The only drawback is the
inconvenient approach to it. A continuation of the present
line of King Street would lead directly to it; but this street
not being fully opened eastward, the access is by the Dum-
barton Road, as far as Drumfork toll, and then up the old
Luss road. The distance is thus nearly doubled. A little
eff^ort would secure an excellent approach, and v/e hope that
such an effort will soon be made.

The fine southern exposure, more than once alluded to,
and the shelter which it enjoys from east winds, not only
make Helensburgh a desirable summer residence, but plea-
sant winter quarters. To invalids, it is offcen recommended
by medical men of the highest authority, in preference to
any place in the west of Scotland. Although not possessing
many of the attractions of its distinguished English rivals,
still there is no modern Scottish town that can nearly ap-
proach to it.

There is no trade of any importance carried on in Helens-
burgh ; it is almost entirely dependent on its visitors for

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prosperity and increase. This migratory population not
only creates a demand for every kind of necessary, but is
the means of supplying the wants of a class of the popula-
tion whose time is divided between boating and fishing.
A number of the adult population are engaged in herring
and deep-sea fishing for a considerable portion of the year;
and another part derives a livelihood by attendance on the
demands of pleasure and fishing parties during summer, fol-
lowing other callings in winter. There is commonly a good
supply of whiting, cod, flounders, and other sea-fish, on the
coast, and any of the experienced boatmen can readily con-
duct a pic-nic or piscatorial party to some favourite spot,
where, at least, a modicum of success is obtainable. On a
quiet summer's afternoon, the whole bay and loch seem
studded with such small craft, in groups of half-a-dozen or
more, at every haunt where fish are traditionally or actually
found. Whether the success is at all commensurate with
the numbers of sport-seekers, we cannot find any reliable
means of determining, as anglers' statements of their prowess
are proverbially to be received cum grana salis. There is also
during the early months ol the year, some sea-trout fishing to
be obtained by trolling in the loch, with sand-eel or partail.
There are several pleasant strolls and carriage drives in
the immediate vicinity of Helensburgh. The three prin-
cipal roads lead — eastward, towards Dumbarton; west, to
Gareloch; and north, to Luss. The scenery on each of
these is varied in character, and they possess respectively
points of interest drfiferent from each other. The west road
leads wholly along the banks of the loch, and brings the
tourist within view of many bits of admirable water scenery.
It is full of windings, and the various little bays of the loch,
and their background studded with villas, rising amongst

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the trees in terraces, and crowned with the hills, like Swiss
villages, are favourite haunts of sketchers and painters in
summer holidays. The east, on the other hand, after leav-
ing Helensburgh, passes through a fine agricultural country.
There are few houses, save farm homesteads, along the way;
but the farms are in the highest state of good management,
and the land generally well cultivated. The scenery is ir-
regular ; tracts of rising land, stretching away back to the
hills, belts of wood above these, and the bare hill tops, on
the one hand ; and cornland sloping down to the river, strips
of meadow along the river bank, the Clyde, and its opposite
shores, on the other hand, make up the picture. The road
to the north presents rather a steep ascent for the first mile
or two; but after this is conquered, and the tourist fairly
reaches the region of the heather, he will not regret his past
labours. Turning round, you command a view of almost
the whole Frith of Clyde, with parts of its lochs, and its
numerous villages and towns; and beyond these rise the
blue hills of Arran, sharply outlined against the sky. A
few steps further on in front, bring you in view of Loch-
lomond, in silvery repose, with its lovely islands and wooded
heights, on the farther side of which the mountains of Stir-
lingshire and Perthshire fill up the background. In addition
to these short walks, there are various other places of interest
in the neighbourhood worthy of a vi^it from the stranger,
and which deserve more than a passing notice. Some of
them are little known, save to the enthusiastic botanist or
pedestrian. Others, memorable in history and tradition, we
purpose at fuller length to notice; and our reward will be
sufficient if we induce those who have hitherto found a diffi-
culty in filling up a leisure hour, to explore these spots, and
find interest and instruction in them.

32 Helensburgh guide.

THE HIGHLANDMAN'S ROAD.*

To amatory young gentlemen and ladies this walk pre-
sents many attractions — even its drawbacks to ordinary
pedestrians in the way of stiles and old dikes to be climbed,
and dry passages to be selected, are attractive, as affording
many charming opportunities of displaying gallantry and
provoking discussion between the parties. Besides, it is
comparatively little frequented, and the almost only in-
truders on a delightful tete-a-tete are the roe-deer and rabbit,
and they of course, communicate no secrets. It is a walk
you may have almost all to yourself, and this exactly suits
the temperament of the class alluded to, who are generally
selfish enough to desire exclusive possession of the path.
Nevertheless, it affords a pleasant stroll to any pedestrian
who is above such a base consideration as spotless boots,
and is willing to undergo a little fatigue for a large recom-
pense of pleasure. Why it has been called the Highland-
man's Road is not very easily determined, as it leads to no

* We are aware that the title of this sketch is somewhat a misnomer.
It has been adopted rather in compliance with the popular phrase-
ology, which has dubbed the road in question, ' ' The Highlandman's
Road," than in strict fact. The Highlandman's Eoad, correctly
speaking, led by a different route. When there was no road from
Arrochar coastwise, by tochlong and Gareloch, the public thorough-
fare passed along the mountain brows, passing Craganbreck, Tambui,
(on the height above Finart, ) continuing along near the ridge from
over Faslane by Ardencaple hill, and skirting along the sides of the
hills till it reached Dumbarton. This was an ancient highway from
the Highlands to the Lowlands, It was when returning home this
route that the clan Gregor were attacked by the clan Colquhoun, in
the sixteenth century, and the battle of Glenf ruin, afterwards alluded
to, was fought. To any reader desirous of experimentally ascertain-
ing what we have indicated, it will yield what is eagerly sought in
more expensive and doubtful forms — a variety of new sensations ;
only it must be tried with kilt and philabeg, as appropriate attire.

THE HIGHLANDMAN's ROAD. 33

precise locality to wliich Highlanders could be supposed to
Lave any good inducement to travel. The most plausible
supposition is, that, as all highland roads were anciently
constructed in as nearly a direct line as possible, and with a
delio-htful disresrard to all minor inconveniences of bog;,
brier, and stream, this one, from these circumstances, has
fairly earned the designation. Passing through Woodend
farm, at the west end of Helensburgh — where if you have
any difficulty in striking the right path, information may
be probably obtained by any respectable wayfarer — the pe-
destrian finds a cart-road leading right up the hill for some
distance and then losing itself in a distinct footpath. To
this he keeps, as he best can, pursuing his course through a
ratjier difficult country, broken and irregular in surface, for
about a quarter of a mile further up the hill, and pretty
close to the boundary of Ardencaple estates. Pausing and
turning round when he has fairly reached the summit of the
first elevation, he obtains a beautiful view of Helensburg'h,
and the lands of Camiseskan, from a point which introduces
many features quite new and different from any he has
previously seen. Indeed, there is no point in the neigh-
bourhood from which, in such beautiful panoramic detail,
the eye can embrace the whole buildings, gardens, and
streets of the village as the foreground, and stretching out
beyond the fair pasture lands, woods, and hills of Cardross
parish. If a botanist, the visitor will find here many beau-
tiful specimens of mosses, ferns, and the common flora of
our fields and woods, and may spend half a day in supply-
ing his tin case with varieties not easily obtained else-
where. In the spring months specimens of the lilac gentian,
blue cuckoo flower, sweet woodruff", blue hyacinth, buttercup,
heartsease, and primrose, are abundant; from the mossy

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ground, later in the year, the orchis family ; and from the
alder and birch-grown banks of the little streams flowing
across the path, the wild rose, hawthorn, and sloe, breathe
a sweet perfume on the summer air. At certain seasons,
the old pasture here is a favourite morning resort of mush-
room collectors, amateur and professional ; these eatables
being found in considerable quantities near the old farm-
house. A mushroom party, in early summer morn, has
certain pleasant accompaniments of fresh and fragrant nature
and woodland melodies no other can furnish. Here, on the
right hand in a romantic little hazel dell, are the sources
of the Glennan Burn — now considerably diminished in volume
from what it used to be, by surface drainage and other causes
unknown to us. In this dell, the sides of which are somewhat
precipitous and difficult of descent sheltered from the winds,
and, fringed in the yellow broom, and almost isolated by the
bounding stream, is a beautiful patch of smooth greensword
known as the Fairies' Ring — always green and always shel-
tered from the storm — a little gem in a fair setting.
Had you here wandered a century since, under the calm
light of a glorious summer moon, bathing in its silver
radiance the whole landscape, and had courage to examine
its mysteries, what vision might have been enjoyed of the
secrets of the fairy folk, and what wondrous music of fairy-
land you might have heard ! Alas ! we have been born too
late to enjoy these pleasures of a past and believing age : we
can only envy those who have shared them. In this spot
the good folk in our great-grandmothers' days enjoyed many
a night of revel, and held high carnival on Beltane and
Hallowe'en. Belated shepherds and benighted travellers
have often listened to their weird-like music, stealing in
measured unearthly strains down the glen; and more than

THE HIGHLANDMAN's ROAD. 35

one rasli spectator has witnessed a fairy festival on that
green. But Jock Bateson, more than half a century since,
saw the last of them here. Indeed, Jock has the credit or
dishonour, whichever you will, of having banished them
from this favourite spot. Coming across the hill one harvest
night from the Chapel of Glen Fruin, and naturally anxious
to avoid any beaten path or stray traveller, by reason of a
small suspicious keg which he bore, strapped to his shoulders,
Jock, after wading through a mile or two of heather, struck
down by the Old Mains farm, right above there, and into
the channel of the burn. Resting the keg against a rock
for a little, to recruit his strength, and fortify himself for the
remainder of the road, Jock was startled by the sound of
* music, borne on the night breeze, mingled with the laughter
and the echoes of tiny voices, proceeding from a spot not far
distant. His first impulse was to leave his precious burden
and run for it; but second thoughts are best, and after a
short perplexing study of the question, Jock felt himself
impelled by some ungovernable desire to ascertain who the
musicians were. Again slinging the keg on his shoulders,
with no small trepidation he crept cautiously along the banks
of the streamlet, careful of every broken bough and loose
stone in his way, and peering through the branches of the
hazel as he went. Reaching this little dell, at a sudden
angle, he found himself behind a large boulder, a witness of
a scene bewildering and novel. In the beams of the bright
autumn moon, resting in full radiance on the green ring,
were scores of tiny men and women, some engaged in a fan-
tastic dance, others, seated on the grass and on the branches
of the broom and hazel, were playing a shrill unearthly
melody, from pipes of reed and corn. Round and round
in giddying circles the dancers flew, and tumbled over each

36 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

other in uncoutli gambols amid shouts of laughter. Sud-
denly the music ceased, and a grim visaged little fellow,
with a tall, peaked cap on his head, amid temporary silence,
stepped forth to the spot where Jock stood, tremblingly
feasting his bewildering eyes, and said "Welcome, Jock
Bateson." Amazed at hearing his own name uttered in
such tones, Jock, who was no coward, would willingly have
retreated, but in an instant he was surrounded by a score of
small people, who dragged him forth into the centre of the
ring, and presented him to one taller and more important-
looking than the rest, and who seemed to be leader of the
band, from the deference which was shown to him. " Sit
down, Jock Bateson," said their chief, " and let us know what
you have got in your cask." Jock obeyed the order to sit,
and muttered something about the cask containing a drop of
** small still brew." This information apparently being
inadequate to convey the knowledge wanted, it was taken
possession of forthwith and broached. A foxglove cup was
filled with its contents and handed to Jock, who drank it off,
to their united healths, with a mental observation that " the
gude folks' measure was unco sma'." In succession the
whole group quaffed from the same miniature goblet, amidst
much laughing and gesticulation; and the keg, its owner
feared, was sadly diminishing. The consequences of this
imprudence, however, soon became apparent in the scene of
excitement which followed. All order and rule was lost,
and amid a confusion indescribable, Jock was led through a
series of dances by a succession of partners, to a music un-
paralleled in the annals of fairyland till cockcrow, when
suddenly Jock heard a rushing sound through the air, and
was conscious of nothing more till the burning sun of the
following morn, beating on his face, awakened him — sick and

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bruised — to a dim recollection of his whereabouts. Casting
bis eyes about, he saw his keg lying among the grass with
its plug draA^al, and its contents escaped ; and, at a little
distance, his cap and oak stick he remembered carrying over-
night. Gathering himself together, with pain racking all
his limbs, he made the best of his way home. It was some
months later before he fairly recovered and told the story of
his meeting with the fairies. Some few believed it, and
many disbelieved it; but unbelief was a little shaken by the
after history of Jock. He sunk into a drunken idler, spend-
ing his days in the gratification of the basest habit man is a
victim to, and unnerved for any steady application to his
work, was reduced to abject poverty. His death was at-
tended by some peculiar symptoms — so imusual, that an
Edinburgh physician, who happened to be in the neighbour-
hood at the time, thought proper to carry off Jock's brain
with him for the benefit of medical science, and to the serious
future injury of Jock, who, it seemed, did not rest qniet in
his grave afterwards. For many years subsequently he was
reported, upon the best authority, to wander up and down the
burn, at full moon, howling and jibbering after his lost brains.
After ascending about half a mile above the source of
this stream, the foot-track diverges into a cart-road, which
stretches along the hill-side towards Row. A long, deep
belt of fir plantation clothes the hill on the right-hand side,
but towards the Frith the view is open. From this road,
Vv^hich the visitor has a beautiful uninterrupted view of
Ardencaple Castle and policies — once the possession of The
MAulay, a formidable chieftain, and invested with con-
siderable authority, if the old rhyme be correct —

•* Aulay, M'Aulay, Laird of Caimdow,
Bailie of Dumbarton, and Provost of the Row. "

38 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

The road winds along tlie side of tlie hill for about half a
mile, till it reaches the Torr farm, a neat, comfortable house,
in modern style, invisible from beneath, but well known in
the surrounding district from the agricultural science and
zeal of its tenant. Here the pedestrian may either strike
down past the farm to the loch-side, or pursue his stroll
farther westwards. The road continues to wind among the
villas scattered on the hill- side, towards Eow, passing gar-
dens, orchards, shrubberies, and many picturesque little cot-
tages, clothed with woodbine and roses, till further progress
is debarred by Ardenconnal policies, and a descent to the
highway becomes necessary at last, whence the return home
may be effected pleasantly by the sea-shore.

THE OLD ROAD.

Among the nooks and corners worth exploring is the old
turnpike road to Luss, now disused and neglected, save as it
suits the convenience of the farmer through whose lands it
may pass. It was once partly a main line of communication
between the Lowlands and the fastnesses of Perth, Stiiiing,
and Inverness shires, extensively used in connection with
the ferries to the opposite shores of Greenock and Port-
Glasgow. It was made at the expense of the Duke of Argyll
grandfather to the j)resent Duke, and in Helensburgh
charter is termed "the Duke's road." His Grace is said
to have been much displeased at the direction given to it by
those interested, his desire being that it should have taken
the direction of General Wade's road, that preceeded it.
That road, after passing Daligan farmhouse, took the direc-
tion of little Drumfad, passed Culshot, crossed the green-

THE OLD ROAD. 39

burn above the mill-dam, passed above Glennan farmhouse
to the east bank above Glennan Burn, kept nearly along the
burn till it crossed it to the west side, just "at the back of
Mr. A. Oswald's villa, and passed through his grounds, in a
direct line to the shore. ISTot many years since, an arched
bridge of this road remained entire between Daligan and
Little Drumfad. The Old Road, as we now know it, leada
from the east boundary of the town through the farm of
Kirkmichael. Near this at one time, stood the remains of
a chapel dedicated to St. Michael, with certain monastic
buildings. The chapel was in existence about the commence-
ment of last century, and, from old parish records, seems to
have been used as a place of worship. It is difficult now to
trace its exact site ; the stones of which it was built have
been oppropriated for boundary dikes and farm offices, and
other base uses, to the regret of antiquary and archaeologists.
Passing the farm steading, the road winds up hill over alter-
nating ridge and hollow, between broom-clad banks, where
the blue bell, meadow-sweet, primrose, and wild rose luxu-
riate in rich mosaic of colour, and shed their fragrance on
the summer air. And it will be strange if you do not pass,
in some sheltered nook, a camp or two of wandering Arabs,
the gray tent erected in the lee of an old dyke or bank, with
the cart tilted against a tree, and the donkey grazing placidly
at the hedge roots, and encounter a group of impudent
children rushing, in their tattered picturesqueness towards
you, imploring "backshish." This road has from time im-
memorial, been a favourite haunt for these dwellers in tents.
The little heaps of blackened stones and bits of charred wood
dotting the roadsides, and mingled with scraps of tin and
horn, show abundant vesteges of former encampments, and
may in some future age be exhumed by antiquarians, and

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theorised over as relics of some ancient race — workers of
metal and bone. Who knows what volumes may be writ-
ten to prove their existence, habits and customs ! Farther
up the hill, the road is lined by a belt of wood, a famous
place in former days and probably famous still, for nutting
excursions in the autumn. Chumps of hazel abound among
the more valuable forest trees, and yield, or used to yield,
many a stock of nuts to the boys in Helensburgh against
Hallowe'en. But the hazel does more than this ; for it also
affords desirable shelter in the winter storms, and against the
biting winds of spring to the cattle lying out on the hill
and about its roots a picking of fresh grass can be found
when the outlying fields are bare and withered. The
view, as you reach the opening into the wood, is very exten-
sive to the east and west commanding a long range of
scenery on both sides of the Clyde.

Farther on, the road apparently intersects the remains of
an ancient camp. A good deal of discussion has arisen
whether these are traces of a Roman encampment or belong
to more recent dates. No thorough investigation of the
matter has ever been made. It certainly is not far from the
line of the wall of Antoninus ; and as near Callendoon,
about two miles distant, pieces of ancient armour, apparently
of Roman origin, have been found, it is quite possible this
may have been an outlying station.

After leaving the wood the road enters the moor, and is
difficult to follow sometimes. The whole aspect of the scene
changes. From the corn field and hay meadow you enter
at once into a region of moor and peat. You seem to cross
the threshold of civilisation, and are transported into a
region which bears no impress of the hand of man, and un-
disturbed by any noisy device or busy handiwork, spreads

TO ROW. '41

its fresh, beauties before you in all the attraction of nature.
Passing througb the moor for about a mile, the road diverges
again, and joins the new Luss road, whence the route north-
wards may be prosecuted, or the pedestrian can return thus
homewards.

TO ROW.

Learned Gaelic commentators have long ago found out
that the original name of this district was "Khue," or, Point
of Land ; and failing any more plausible theory, we are will-
ing to admit the corruption of the text. Parishes were
anciently often named from the localities selected for the
kirk. This appears to have been the case here.* The name

* It appears from ecclesiastical records that the kirk of Row was at
first an ease, or subordinate, place of worship for local accommoda-
tion, served by the minister of Roseneath. An act of General Assem-
bly, of date 27th August 1639, empowered the Presbytery to take
measures for settling both parishes of Roseneath and Cardross, with
Ease. When the Presbytery began their proceedings, on 4th Feb. ,
1640, the " kirk upon the Row of Connel" existed, and M'Aulay of
Ardencaple required the ease to be there. At another meeting, held
the same month, Mr. George Lindsay, minister of Roseneath, offered
security to maintain a helper ; but Mr. Robert Walton, minister of
Cardross, rather than that any part of his parish should be united ta
Roseneath, made a large offer for building a church and maintaining a
helper in Glenf ruin. There ensued a long and keen conflict between
contending parties. The minister of Roseneath instead of being dis-
burdened of the part of his charge east of Gareloch, was charged with
having to preach every second Sabbath at the kirk of Row. At length
(3d July 1643) the Lords Commissioners for the plantation of Kirks
decreed the disjunction so long contended for. As much of Rosensath
lying to the east of Kirkmichael was annexed to Cardross as was dis-
joined from Cardross to be annexed to the kirk of Row. The part of
Cardross taken to make up the new parish embraced the Bannachras,
Glenfruin, and lands about Gareloch-head. The compensation re-
ceived by Cardross, from Roseneath, lay between Kirkmichael and
the present church. Till then, that church stood on Cardross Point,
at the influx of the Leven with Clyde. Row continued to be without
a settled ministry till the presbytery, on 27th September 1648, ap-
pointed the admission of Mr. Archibald MacLeane, of Kingarth, aa
its first minister.

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of the locality was Row, or Rhue of Connel, applicable to
the remarkable neck, or promontory, in the Gareloch, which
then approached much nearer Roseneath than now. The
insignificance of this title, however, affords no fair criterion
by which to judge of the locality, any more than the name
of a man affords of his qualities. Speaking of that part of
the parish properly known as Row, and inclusive of its neck

of land, there are few more beautiful or more romantic
places on the surface of the earth — few of the homes or haunts
of men so favoured with the attractions of all that is lovely
in nature. The road thence from Helensburgh is the most
popular of all strolls in the neighbourhood, and well de-

TO ROW. 43

serves the preference bestowed upon it. On a summer even-
ing it is crowded with pedestrians, and on few days of the
year, and at few hours, will you not meet with walkers of
all classes. The road, once narrow, but lately considerably
improved leads along the raargin of the Gareloch to the
village of Row, a distance of about two miles from Helens-
burgh. Immediately on passing Helensburgh, Arden-
caple Castle and policies appear on the right hand side
of the road. The castle is a building of some antiquity, and
of some local historical interest. It stands on a rising knoll,
defended by an array of stately trees, by whose leafy branches
it is almost wholly concealed during summer. A cool shady
avenue, where lofty trees abound, leads up to it, but there
is nothing very imposing or architectually interesting in
the building itself The more ancient part of it has been
added to at various times, without due regard to the origi-
nal design ; and were it not for the clustering ivy, which
has

"Clasped the gray walls with hairy-fibred arms,
And sucked the joinings of the stones and rocks,
A knot, beneath, of snakes, aloft, a grove, "

reaching, in some places to the very eaves, it would be rather
a dull unsightly mass of rough stones and mortar. The in-
terior, contrary to anticipation, almost corresponds with the
(exterior in containing little or nothing of interest to the
visitor. It lends nothing, but borrows much of its interest
and picturesqueness from the situation it occupies, and the
noble woods by which it is surrounded. Anciently Arden-
caple belonged to the Faslane branch of the Lennox family,
In the fourteenth century, it became the residence of The
M'Aulay, a chief of some importance, and who, with his
predecessors, occupy a somewhat conspicuous, though not

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enviable position in the freebooting annals of the country.
For about a couple of centuries this family possessed a very
considerable influence, not only locally, but in the stormy
annals of the Scottish nation. Theii* power, however, de-
clined with the seventeenth century ; and about the middle
of the eighteenth, they had parted with the last of their
possession here. Ardencaple fell into the hands of a branch

^rdencaple ©astle,

of the Argyll family; was for years possessed by the Duchess-
Dowager of Argyll, and was, about five years since, pur-
chased, along with the estates by Sir James Colquhoun of
Luss, by whom the lands are now offered to feu, and the
ground ha^ been broken by the erection of a princely mansion

TO ROW. 45

here by William Kidston, Esq., J. P. Others will probably
soon follow. A finer position for sea-coast villas than the
range of fields adjacent to the shore presents, can scarcely be
Well conceived. The amenity of the castle and its immediate
policies would not be injured, nor their seclusion encroached
upon to any perceptable extent were this strip of land laid
out in houses and gardens. The policies are now guarded
against all public intrusion by watchers, dogs and placards.
The bosky dells and sylvan beauties, once accessible to the
tourist need not be described, for caveat viator is inscribed at
every pass, and echoed in English and Gaelic, by the surly
tongue of a gamekeeper and gillie to any stranger who has
the hardihood to enter the road leading through it.

A little beyond the castle, the road separates a point of
land, known as Cairndow and "Neddy's Point," from the
policies. This point is understood to be still in possession
of the Argyll family. Here, from time immemorial, a ferry
to the opposite castle of Roseneath has existed, and of very
recent date an obnoxious toll-bar has been erected, the ad-
vantages of which are not nearly so apparent as those of the
ferry. The Cairndow Point embraces about half an acre of
land rising to a considerable height above the level of the
loch, and clad in some twenty straggling beech trees, whose
shade in summer affords an agreeable lounge for travellers.
Barring the toll-bar there are no houses now on the Point,
though traces of foundations of one or two may still be dis-
cerned among the grassy inequalities of the surface. One or
two cottages existed here within the memory of the present
generation, the principal of these occupied by the Neddy,
whose surviving name has since distinguished the locality.
He was ferryman and fisherman to the Duke, and seems to
have been somewhat of an original, if the traditions pre-

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served of liim deserves credit. His wife, a little English
woman, used to help him daily to launch his boat, and waited
on the beach for his arrival home at evening, invariably
saluting him, ere he stepped ashore, with " Welcome home,
Neddy, fish or no fish." The rocks about this point afibrd
shelter during summer to a succession of gangs of tinkers —
those nomads of civilisation who live in utter heathenism
a.nd barbarism, despite all reformatory institutions and re-
ligious or philanthropic efforts. ISTothing reaches their case
but the order of the policeman to move on ; they know no
higher authority, and no purer law than that which can be
enforced by the baton, and society seems to consider them a
class privileged to live and die in the most debased ignorance
and idleness. The Avomen and children beg all day ; and by
night, around their glimmering fires, the families huddle to-
gether and divide the spoil, and fight aiid swear over the
liquor which their cunning or their importunity has pro-
cured.

From this point to Row Quay, Cairndow Bay, or Arden-
caple Bay as it is sometimes termed, forms a beautiful cres-
cent-like sweep of about half a mile. It is said to bear a
very marked miniature resemblance of the Bay of Naples,
The ground ascends gradually from the water edge to a con-
siderable height, and the white and gray villas, rising above
each other, look forth from the overhanging woods down
upon the loch beneath. Many of these villas have been
erected at great expense, and are furnished and decorated with
the most refined taste. On a calm summer day, when the
woods are in full foliage, abounding in varied tint and
shadow, and almost screening the houses from view, and
iraased in softer tone on the bosom of the waters, there is
scarcely a more beautiful bit of scenery over which one can

TO ROW. -_ .'47

linger and admire than at this point. At the further ex-
tremity of the bay is Row Quay, and beyond it sweeps
another semicircle, forming the E-ow Bay — not so beautiful
as the first, yet possessing many attractions. In its centre
stands the village and parish church of Eow — the village
consisting of a small cluster of houses, only partially seen
from the road, with Ardenconnal House, perched amid lofty
trees, like a protecting fortress occupying a commanding
situation on the heights behind. Adjacent to the village is
the parish church, erected about twelve years since — a very
handsome building, and decorated with several beautifully
stained-glass windows, the gift, we believe, of Robert Napier,
Esq., and others. A sad drawback, however, to the archi-
tectural beauty of the ehurch is the utter ruin and neglect
of the churchyard — imperfectly fenced, and with tombstones
lying in every condition of dilapidation and disorder. Row
parish, as already noticed, was disjoined from the parishes of
Roseneath and Cardross about the year 1643. The part of it
which extends from Shandon to the east boundary of Helens-
burgh, belonged to Roseneath. From Shandon to Gareloch-
head, and the Strath of Glenfruin, belonged to Cardross ; and
from Gareloch-head to the boundary of the parish of Arrochar,
is mentioned in the report of the Commissioners appointed
for the Valuation of Teinds, in 1630, as lying in the parish
of Inshalloch,* an old parish, which is now unknown even

* Inshalloch, says an antiquarian friend, is a name disguised by one
of those freaks of orthography common in old documents. It is Inch-
Cailliach, the name of the island of Lochlomond, adjacent to Balmaha,
where it is beheved the churchyard and remains of the church may
yet be traced. The church was transferred to Buchanan, which had
formerly a chapel subordinate to Luss. All the lands belonging to
Luss on the east side of the lake were annexed to this ancient parish
to form the modern parish of Buchanan ; while a large portion of the
parish of Inch-Cailliach, on the west side was annexed to Luss. The

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by name in the district, and seems to have merged into the
parish of Cardross. The district now comprehended as the
parish of Kow, though not a parish till 1646, possessed
several places of worship. One at Faslane, where the Lennox
family had a castle, and a considerable part of which yet
stands; another at Glenfruin, to which considerable church
lands were attached, but the only remnant of which is the
stone baptismal font, built into a modern cottage — ^the
schoolmaster's house; and another at Kirkmichael, in
Helensburgh, of which no vestige now remains, but religious
service is said to have been performed in it in the early part
of last century by an indulged Episcopal minister.

At the time the parish was formed, the most populous
portion of it was the now almost lonely glen of the Fruin,
where it was at first intended the parish church should be
placed; but the tenantry succeeded in getting it erected
where it now is by giving land for the church, church-yard,
and glebe. The first minister was chosen in consequence of
his ability to preach in Gaelic; but that tongue has long
ceased to be used in preaching or conversation in the dis-
trict. The last minister who used it was Mr. Allan, who,
along with his son as successor, were ministers of the
parish for about a century previous to 1812. The present
beautiful church appears to be the third that has been
erected since the formation of the parish. More than half of

territories included Caldannach, Prestelloch and Conglen, and as
they would thus include the narrow strip of Luss, Craig-en-shee —
which separated Row from Arrochar — they must have extended west-
ward to Lochlong. Whatever of Inch-Cailliach may have been in-
cluded in Row must have been annexed beforehand to Roseneath or
Cardross, since the others were dismembered in the construction of
Row. Buchanan was disjoined from Luss in 1621, twenty -two years
previously, and the old parish of Lich-CailHach broken up.

TO ROW. 49

its cost was subscribed by few of the parishioners on Gare-
lochside, as an inducement to the heritors to build it. Its
immediate predecessor had been built in 1862, and remained
unseated for a year after it was occupied, the parishioners
bringing stools and chairs or other conveniences with them
on the Sundays, according to taste or resources. The pre-
sent esteemed minister, the E,ev. John Laurie Fogo, has
laboured acceptably and efficiently since 1832.

Row parish, in 1830, attained considerable ecclesiastical
importance in consequence of a religious movement, known
as the " Row heresy," originating here. This movement
excited deep attention throughout Scotland and England at
the time. It agitated the Presbytery, aud ultimately the
General Assembly took up the matter, and it resulted in the
exclusion of the then minister of the parish from his charge
— a man who still survives the stormy discussions of the
time, respected for his talents, faithfulness, and unblemished
character.

Beyond the church, a long peninsula, called the Point,
stretches out into the loch, encircling the village with an
arm. On the neck of Row Point stands a beautiful Italian
villa, built some years since by Daniel Walkinshaw, Esq.,
and which forms a most appropriate ornament to the land-
scape, redeeming the otherwise bare point of its former
bleak and unpromising aspect. A clump of fir plantation
clothes the remainder of the point, lying above tide mark;
and from thence, at ebb-water, a long narrow strip of
gravelly channel reaches almost across the loch, leaving but
a narrow passage betwixt and the opposite ferry of Rose-
neath, in which the pent waters at ebb and flood boil and
toss about at times with great fury. Standing on this nar-
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on eacli side present. With a breeze blowing freshly down
the loch, or upwards, the tide on the one hand is fretting
and angrily lashing against the opposing barrier, the waves
raking down, with each returning grasp, the loose sand and
pebbles, only to dash them back again on the shore. On
the other hand, not a breath disturbs the placid surface ; the
leaves of the ebbed sea-gresses and tangle float listlessly on
the surface, and the medusa stretches out its hundred fibrous
threads in quest of its minute prey, and the water-spider
skims to and fro on its glittering pathway. How narrow
and how frail the boundary between the bitter, bleak shore
of wordly trial and adversity, and the calm rest of peaceful
life ! To what slight interposition, which, men meaninglessly
term chance, are we often preserved from the storm, and our
bark rides safely in tranquil and untroubled waters ! And
as one stands on this point and watches the fishing crafts on
the lake beyond, he cannot fail to feel a measure of sympathy
and interest in the humble lives of those who earn a liveli-
hood from the treacherous deep; the poetry and peril of
which have formed an exhaustless theme of past and present
literature. The fisherman's boat itself, under the eloquent
pen of Mr. Ruskin, becomes a very poem. How graphic
and how true the description involuntarily rising before us
as we write — "All ashine with the sea she plunges and dips
into the deep green purity of the mounded waves more joy-
fully than a deer lies down among the grass of spring, the
soft white cloud of foam opening momentarily at the bows,
or fading and flying high into the breeze where the sea-gulls
toss and shriek ; the joy and beauty of it all the while so
mingled with the sense of unfathomable danger, and the
human efibrt andi sorrow going on from age to age — waves
rolling for ever, and winds moaning for ever, and faithful

THE SMUGGLERS, OR THE WHISTLERS GLEN.

51

hearts trusting and sickening for ever, and brave lives dashed
away about the rattling beach like weeds for ever ; and still
at the helm of every lonely boat, through starless night and
hopeless dawn, His hand who spread the fisher's net over the
dust of the Sidonian palaces, and gave into the fisher's hand
the keys of the kingdom of heaven."

THE SMUGGLER'S, OR THE WHISTLER'S GLEK

This beautiful and romantic glen is situated about half a
mile to the north of the village of Row. It was anciently
called Aldonalt, that is, the burn of Donalt, or Dualt. The
lands that lay to the right were called Letru-alt. There was

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Letru-alt-a-Mhailinn (Litrualt of the Mill,) immediately on
the right and further along Mid Letrualt and west Letru-
alt. The principal approach to it is through the grounds of
Ardenconnal or Aldonwick ; but there are several bypaths
"which are preferable if the pedestrian does not object to
overcome a few obstacles such as hedges, dykes, and ditches.
The glen is about a mile in extent, reaches up from the
Gareloch northwards. At its termination there is said to be
a bottomless linn, where, according to the tales of ancient
days, many dark and bloody deeds were perpetrated. Cer-
tainly the rugged, rocky, picturesque character of the glen
is such to corroborate the most startling traditions asso-
ciated with it. The south part of the glen is thickly wooded
\7ith birch, fir, and hazel trees, and the craggy rocks are
overrun with brambles, ivy, and brushwood, presenting an
almost impenetrable jungle, while at the depth of twenty or
thirty feet the burn, a wilful little stream, flows slugglishly
along, or tumbles over some projecting rock in mimic falls.
The glen has of late years been made much more accessible
then formerly, a path having been formed on each side,
and rustic bridges thrown across the ravine at short inter-
vals. In one part of the water, as if about to leave the little
glen, suddenly disappears under the ground and is distinctly
heard murmering below the surface, but again, in obedience
to an inexorable destiny, after a few hundred yards, re-
appears and continues its wandering course, till it finally
assumes the form of a considerable burn, which fiows unin-
turruptedly into the Gareloch. The view from many points
of the glen is beautiful, and must attract the most careless
eye. Ascending the glen till you reach the outskirts of the
wood, there bursts upon you an almost unrivalled scene of
beauty : the clear and silvery Gareloch, bearing on its bosom.

THE smuggler's, OR THE WHISTLER'h GLElf. 63

the bark of many an honest fisherman, now appearing a mere
speck, or the noble vessel with its living freight, ploughing its
way through its peaceful waters; the opposite shore stretching
out into the Frith of Clyde, forming the peninsula of E,ose-
neath. Almost at the extremity, and partially hid by noble
trees, stands the place of Koseneath, the seat of the Duke of
Argyll ; and at a short distance westward, near the shore, is
the Clachan, with its picturesque school house, and troops of
merry children. Towering in the background are the rugged
and heath-clad hills which border Lochs Long and Goil,
while away to the west, and almost lost in the distance, the
craggy mountains of Argyllshire ; and a little to the south,
disappearing in the clouds, rise the shattered and thunder-
splitten peaks of Arran. In former days this glen, as ita
name implies, was a favourite and secure retreat for smug-
glers, and not a few drops of " mountain-dew " have been car-
ried from it unscathed by government influence.

This glen is worthy the attention of the botanist, and
wo\ild amply repay his toil; he might spend days in sup-
plying himself with many rare and beautiful plants, espe-
cially of the fern tribe, and mosses of every variety and rain-
bow-coloured hues.

Tradition records that many years ago, beside the black
linn, and always when the moon was at its full, the figure
of a woman in gray might be seen by night on a stone,
crouched down with clasped hands and murmuring in a low
soft wail to the bubbling stream. Her lover was said to
have been slain by some rival in the lady's afiections, and
his body subsequently discovered at the spot. "We never
met with any one who saw the apparition, and do not vouch
it as a positive fact.

This glen is sometimes known as the Whistler's Glen; by

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this name it is recognised in the " Heart of Midlothian/'
The author has connected it, despite a little anachronism,
"with the son of Jeanie Deans's sister. He, while an infant,
had been sold by the person to whom he was entrusted, to a
wandering tribe of gipsies, and by them given up to Donacha
Dha, the chief of a party of freebooters, who appears to have
made the glen a place of retreat, and here the young lad was
brought up in a state little removed from the savage, and
only known by the name of "The Whistler." The reader.
of the Heart of Midlothian will remember that his mother,
while on a visit to her sister Jeanie, then Mrs. Butler, nearly
lost her life while wandering through the glen. She was at-
tacked by a party of Donacha Dhu's followers, among whom
was her son, though quite unknown to her at the time, and
was only rescued by the free use of her purse, and the ap-
pearance of some of her sister's friends. The poor Whistler's
end was a very melancholy one ; he was taken prisoner
while attempting to set fire to a house ; but making his
escape, he succeeded in hiding himself in this glen, till having
mortally ofiended Donacha Dhu, he was sold by him to some
American traders lying at Greenock, and lost his life in
attemping to escape from a brutal Southern driver.

This story, and other circumstances, gave an interest to
the glen, which would once have rendered a visit to it an
undertaking requiring some courage.

THE GAEELOCH.

A narrow and indiiFerently kept road, notwithstanding the
number of turnpikes on it, runs from Row Point to Gare-
lochhead. At many points two carriages can hardly pass
abreast, and when its rises above the level of the beach, wall

THE GARELOCH. 55

or fence often insufficiently interposes to protect the incautious
traveller from being precipitated on the stones beneath.
It is badly drained, and there is no footpath for humble
pedestrians, and in wet weather is generally submerged
in mud to a depth varying from two to five or six inches.
With all these drawbacks, however, there is compensation
to be found in the scenery through which it passes. Many a
smooth and unexceptional highway leads the weary miles
past a dreary and uninteresting country, without one refresh-
ing feature or suggestive object anywhere arising to attract
the eye or gladden the heart of the toiling traveller, while
many a rough and rugged road penetrates the fairest scenes
of nature. The smoother the journey the less the pleasure
it confers — ^the glowing panorama of glen and mountain,
lake and forest, is only witnessed after the toilsome ascent.
As in the roads through life, with toil and trial are most of
our pleasures won, and not found in our journey on smooth
and easy levels, so it would seem the roughest roads in
nature often lead through the most varied and longest
remembered of our pleasant experiences : and the road here
has this advantage. The road winds around all the little
bays and creeks; rises here steeply in front; presents there
a sudden turn; at this point reveals the whole loch to
the eye ; at the next passes in front of some handsome villa
or fragrant garden, shutting out the hills from view, or
diverges beneath a clump of trees, or between a hedgerow,
but nowhere lingers so long as to create a monotony or sug-
gest a wish for change. The distance from Row to Gareloch-
head is about six miles. The loch varies in breadth from
half a mile to a mile, is in some places very deep, and to the
eye is completely locked in on every side, the narrow outlet
at Row Point being hardly perceptible at a distance. On

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botli sides of the locli, and at its head, rise a barrier of heath-
clad hills, generally sloping at an easy declivity down to the
water ; overtopping those at the head of the loch, the high,
bold, rocky mountains that stretch across the head of Glen
Croe, and above Ardentinny, present their clear, sharp out-
lines in the sky, and form a pleasant background to the
picture. Like most Highland lakes, Gareloch, a few years
since, to the travellers eye, showed but few signs of civilised
life. The hills are clad with heath, and towards the margin
of the loch, when partially reclaimed from morass and brush-
wood, a scanty cornfield, and unplastered heath-thatched hut
here and there told of human life and enterprise. At the
head of the loch, a little clachan of these huts gathered to-
gether, inhabited chiefly by fishermen, formed the village.
Railways and steam navigation, however, have changed all
that ; the aborigines are as nearly extinct as any doomed
tribe of red men, or have become amalgamated with the in-
vaders of their territories, and are now undistinguishable, and
their huts and corn patches have passed away with them.

There are few buildings of any antiquity, or memorials of
the past possessing interest enough to detain the stranger,
or induce him to wander from the beaten track. Blair-
vadic Castle, situated about a mile above the Row, a stately
modern castle, built by the late Sir James Anderson, occu-
pies the site of an older mansion built by the late James
Buchanan, Esq., of Craigend. Perhaps the oldest house on
Garelochside is Faslane House, which was a summer resi-
dence last century. On the hill above Ardchapel, at Shan-
don, enthusiastic and imaginative explorers have found the
remains of an old dry dyke, but nothing like the founda-
tion of a sacred edifice, even although the tradition is
supported by the name yet retains. A much less equivocal

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57

building, surrounded by remains of an ancient churchyard
can be plainly distinguished at Faslane, a little farther
north. Here worshipped generations, now long slumbering
in dust, of the Celtic tenants and vassals of these glens.
Here, doubtless, some jovial Friar Tuck held saints' fast daya
o'er other fare than parched peas and holy water ; or,

Faslane g^hapel.

perhaps, anchorite Cistercian imposed penance on the lawless
Macfarlane or Colquhoun, or chanted midnight mass for the
unshriven soul of dead freebooter and outlaw. The little
chapel with its broken shrine and remote churchyard is worth
a visit. It occupies a peculiarly lovely and sequestered
spot on a rising knoll almost surrounded by a burn. Adja-

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cent stood, in old times, Faslane Castle, tlie foundations of
whicli can hardly now be traced among the mossgrown
stones and grassy hillocks covering its site.

But if there are few ancient buildings, there are many
modern ones well deserving more than a passing glance. At
Shandon there is a collection of villas unsurpassed in beauty
and picturesqueness of situation by any on the Frith of
Clyde; and occupying a prominent position near the loch,
is "West Shandon House, the princely mansion of Kobert
Napier, Esq., a marvel of masonry and decorative art, and
containing an attraction of rare treasures of ancient and
modern art not equalled almost in Scotland, as a private
collection. A greater treat to the art student or vistuoso
than an inspection of Mr. Napier's mansion and collection,
can hardly be enjoyed. There are both abundant modern
curiosities and

*' Fouth o' auld nick nacketts,
Rusty airn caps and anld steel jackets,
Wad hand the Lothians three in tackets
A towmond guid."

The house was built in 1857, but improvements are still going
on. In close proximity, and not much inferior in attraction is
Shandon House, a much older building, sometime the residence
of Walter Buchanan, Esq., M.P. From Shandon to Gare-
lochhead, about two miles distant, the road winds along some
beautiful little bays — in particular we notice Faslane Bay, as
possessing peculiar attractions, and we wonder that it has not
caught the eye of any building speculator as a desirable site
for villas. Here the village of Garelochhead first appears in
view, and a few minutes' walk takes you to tliat memorable
wooden pier where on a quiet Sunday afternoon some
years ago, the battle of the barricades was faught, a battle

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which ended in the subsequent expenditure of no insignifi-
cant sum in the Court of Session, in vindication of the right
of the proprietor to exclude Sunday excursionists, and pre-
serve the good order and quiet of the village. The village
itself is prettily situated at the head of the loch, and now
stretches in a semicircle around it, and seperates the head of
the Gareloch from Lochlong. At the top of the hill is the
"wee public," called Whistlefield Inn, a welcome resting-
place for the fatigued pedestrian, and from whence a mag-
nificent view of Gareloch, T^ochlong, and Lochgoil, with
their rugged and hoary guardian mountains, can be obtained
The locality is a favourite resort of holiday parties, and there
are few fine summer days in which it is not visited by crowds
from some pleasure excursion steamer. In the fishing
season a little stir is created in the village, and ample em-
ployment for all the girls and boys afibrded for a month or
two. In June and July fleets of fishing crafts harbour about
the head of the loch, nightly dispersing through it in search
of herring, of which great quantities are sometimes captured.
The loch generally used to be somewhat celebrated for fish-
ing, but seems of late years to have fallen rather into disre-
pute, probably from the same mysterious causes which have
operated in diminishing the supply of fish all along the west
coast. To this the season of 1867 was exceptional, when it
was visited by such shoals of herring and other fish, as had
not been seen in memory of man.

CARDEOSS.

Helensburgh is bounded on the east by Cardross parish,
which you enter immediately on leaving a long dull wall at

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the extremity of the town. So dismally secluded is this
part of Helensburgh from any possible view of the Frith,
that between the highway and the rising ground on the
north very few buildings for years had been erected.
It is with a feeling of relief you emerge from this end
of the burgh again into the open country, and to the
ever cheerful view of the sea. A little way beyond the
toll-house, on the north side of the road, stands the man-
sion-house of Colgrain, a plain, unpretending, but com-
modious building, surrounded by some fine old wood, and
occupying a very picturesque situation. It used to be very
much neglected — the grounds untrimmed, the fences dilapi-
dated, and the whole premises had that sad, deserted aspect
peculiar to many old country houses not regularly occupied,
but the enterprising proprietor, Mr Colin Campbell, of Cam-
bus-Eskan, aided by an enterprising tenant, has not only
wrought immense improvements on the farm connected with
it, but also exercised great taste in renovating the building
and lawns. The land here is a rich alluvium, and for several
miles along the road the gently rising upland is highly culti-
vated, and bears very heavy crops. There are some of the
farms on this and the adjoining Cambus-Eskan estate not
surpassed for fertility or good husbandry by any in Dumbar-
tonshire. Adjoining Colgrain, the policies of Cambus-
Eskan, stretch down towards the road. A handsome
freestone lodge and gateway stand at the aj^proach to the
mansion, which occupies a commanding position on the
rising ground, and is sheltered from the east wind by a high
screen of hill and plantation. Below the road, and towards
the river, is a stretch of land of considerable width, and
which will, in all probability, in a few years, be occupied by
villas, as it commands a beautiful view of the Frith, and is

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easily accessible by railway. The Cambus-Eskan grounds
extend along the road about two miles, after which you pass
Keppoch, the property of James Donaldson, Esq., with its
comfortable and well-sheltered mansion-house, commanding
a wide and varied prospect. Then, a little beyond, Lyleston,
belonging to Wm. M. Donald, Esq., nestling under a wood,
looks down on the bay and Frith. Here the road rises
gradually till you reach Ardarden Hill, from which point a
view of the Frith of Clyde, including Helensburgh and the
high range of hills to the west, strikes the eye of the tourist.
There is, perhaps, not a lovelier prospect in Scotland, and
we have heard travellers affirm that nowhere had they seen
it surpassed in the old or new world. Beneath lies the
well-known promontory of Ardmore, connected with the
mainland by a very narrow isthmus. If the tourist can
afford leisure, he will find it worth his while to go a little
out of his way to visit this beautiful spot. The whole pro-
montory is about a mile and a half in circumference. Its
centre is a circular wooded rock of some fifty or sixty feet in
height, called the Hill of Ardmore, on w^hich a good house
is erected, but which is not visible till you approach very
closely to it. On various of the higher points rustic moss
houses and bowers have been placed by the owners of Ard-
more, commanding an ample prospect on either hand. At
the base of the rock on the east, the gardens and orchard are
situated ; and as the rocks are full of fissures, and clad with
ivy and other creeping plants, they strike the eye with a
picturesque efiect. A rock-bound coast runs all round the
promontory, save where little coves occasionally stretch in
towards the land, and in stormy weather the waters of the
Frith beat furiously against it. Ships breaking from their
moorings at Greenock have frequently been dashed to pieces

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on these rocks; and on such a lee shore escape for an vessel
in this hapless plight is almost impossible. On the west
corner of the grounds stands the Ferry-house, formerly much
frequented by travellers and cattle-dealers as being the almost
only means of communication with Greenock and the oppo-
site shore. In stormy weather the passage across was some-
times attended with a considerable degree of peril, and lives
have frequently been lost. Many years ago, on attempting
to make the passage home one wintry night, the ferryman
and his two sons perished when almost on shore, and the
first object that met the gaze of his anxious wife next morn-
ing were the dead bodies of her husband and sons lying on
the beach, almost at the threshold of their own door, where
they had been cast up by the tide. A somewhat kindred
story, though of less melancholy end, is told of another
ferryman who lived here some time, one Jacob Brown, a
solitary individual of rather an eccentric turn of mind.
During the great French war a boat containing a military
band which was being conveyed from Greenock to a trans-
port ship accidentally upset, and the whole band perished.
They were washed ashore subsequently near the ferry-house,
and interred in the ground immediately behind it, now
forming the kailyard. There they slumbered peacefully for
many years save on the anniversary night of their death,
when it was said the sounds of martial music was regularly
heard echoing among the rocks around the lonely point.
One night as Jacob was lying in bed he was awakened by an
unwonted noise within and around his house ; on starting up,
his heart quailled and his blood curdled as he saw a whole
line of thin airy figures all arrayed in military garb, but
through whom the pale moonbeams liitted, perched on tho
top of a dyke, and playing the Dead Mareh in Saul, opposite

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his window. The music was weird and unearthly in sound,
and the deep notes of the huge trombone as it stretched
occasionally till it touched the window of Jacob's room, and
the hollow rumble of the drum, froze every drop of blood in
his veins. Jacob could not cry, he could not move, he had
not even strength to utter an inward prayer, but lay there,
spell-bound, staring at the spectral band, till unconsciousness
happily released him. When he came to his senses the next
morning the band was gone, the sun shining brightly on the
waters, and on the graves of the drowned musicians, all un-
disturbed by their midnight orgies; but Jacob made his
escape from the cottage with all convenient despatch, and
no persuasion could induce him again to set foot in it, nor
till his death did he cease to believe in the reality of the
ghostly company who that night serenaded him.

On both sides of the narrow isthmus, connecting Ardmore
with the mainland, the tide ebbs a long way, leaving a great
tract of sand and marine deposit. These tracts, in the hands
of any enterprising party, could easily be embanked and
much valuable land reclaimed, and we understand such an
operation has been for some time projected. The beauty of
the hill and neighbourhood would be greatly increased were
this scheme carried out. In the meantime these banks are,
in winter, the haunts of various tribes of wild flowers, and
are resorted to by numerous sportsmen — professional and
amateur. The birds seems to find food amongst the marine
grasses and Crustacea with which the banks abound, and
though not nearly so numerous as they were twenty or
thirty years ago, before steam navigation existed to the ex-
tent it now does on the river, there are still large quantities
found resorting to them each winter. Tribes of wild duck
first make their appearance about the end of October, at first

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in small families, gradually increasing as winter advances,
into large and compact flocks. The teal, sheldrake, and
common mossdnck first appear on the approach of frost or
stormy weather, and later in the season flocks of Norwegian
duck and barnacle haunt the bays and creeks. At ebb tide
the sands at these and various other favourite feeding
grounds are almost covered with curlew, gray and golden
plovers, and small sand-larks.

On returning to the highway again, the tourist passes on
the right hand the properties of Ardarden and Brooks, and
on the left Mollandhu. The last was purchased by a legacy
of a Mrs. Jane Moore, bequeathed about two hundred years
ago to be invested in trust, for behoof of the poor of the
parish of Cardross, lying between Lyleston and the burn of
Auchenfro. It was then of comparatively small value, but
now yields a rental of upwards of £300. The story of Jane
Moore may be briefly told, as follows: — Jane Moore was born
in Cardross parish, about 1620, in very humble circumstances,
and, like most girls in her rank, went out early to domestic
service, as the almost only available means of securing an in-
dependent livelihood. She was engaged by the family of Kep-
poch, where one wet afternoon, when baking in the kitchen,
a miserable applicant for charity presented himself at the
door. Actuated by the first impulse of benevolence, Jane
handed the wet and famished man a cake, and bade him dry
his rags near the fire. It was carried to the ears of the
mistress of Keppoch that night that her servant had given
away the bread of the family, and entertained a beggar ; and
as the lady looked on the matter from a somewhat different
point of view from the domestic, as ladies are apt sometimes
to do, she immediately turned her out of doors amid the
pelting, pitiless, rain, and falling darkness. The poor girl

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wandered homewards, but by the time she reached the bum-
foot of Auchenfro the stream was a raging torrent, which
she dared not, in the darkness, cross. To return to Keppoch
was vain, and no friendly roof was nigh to shelter her. Such
poor cover as the bushes afforded was her only protection dur-
ing the long, weary darkness, and storm of the night. But the
wrath of the mistress of Keppoch, and the penance of Jane
Moore were, as many untoward accidents of our lives are,
the turning point of a brighter chapter. In her future
career we find her in London. She was there when the
great plague broke out in 1665 — a spectator and sufferer in
that divine purifying of the moral and sanitary condition of
the metropolis. She was attacked by the disease early, and
was one of the few infected who recovered from the fell
malady — a widow and friendless. The benevolence of the
woman, who helped the beggar at Keppoch, who was not ex-
hausted by her own trials, but exalted and purified ; she
devoted her energies to nursing the sick and tending the
dying around her while the pestilence lasted. Many had
none left to claim their effects when they died, and bestowed
their gold and treasures on Jane Moore. Wealth flowed in
upon her, but only to be applied to charities; and amongst
others she remembered the home of her youth. Before her
death she appointed a sum to be invested for two purposes —
vis., the erection of a bridge at the burnfoot of Auchenfro,
where she had been arrested in her flight by stress of vf eather,
and for relief of the poor of Cardross, resident between the
clachan of Lyleston and the burn of Auchenfro. By con-
fining the benefit of her bequest within these limits Kep-
poch was excluded. The lands of Mollandhu were after,
wards purchased by this bequest ; but, as in late years, the
poor entitled to receive the benefit were exceedingly few in

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number, and gradually diminishing, the Parochial Board of
Cardross parish raised the question whether they were not
the proper administrators of the fund, and after a good deal
of litigation, it was ultimately decided in their favour. The
fund is more beneficially applied than it could have been
under the former arrangement. A beautiful avenue of trees
overarches the road as it passes Geilston, and supplies a cool
and shady walk of about a quarter of a mile in length.
The mansion-house of Geilston stands at a little distance off
the road on the left side, and can only be partially seen from it.
The scenery in the neighbourhood of the house is very fine.
Behind it flows the Geilston Burn, which rises in the moor
some miles above. On this burn are some pretty bits of
rock and waterfall for the pencil of the artist ; and were it
not that its course is through very broken and rugged ground,
it would be more frequently visited. A little beyond Geil-
ston stands the village of Cardross — a very ancient village,
consisting of some dozen of houses, an inn, picturesque parish
church, manse, and unpretending Free Church meeting-
house ; over-hanging the Parish Church are the beautiful
grounds and manse of Bloomhill. The population of the
village probably does not exceed fifty, and cannot have in
creased within the memory of the oldest inhabitant. It
lies in a sheltered warm situation. There are many beauti-
ful walks in the neighbourhood, and the roads being light
and gravelly, are always dry and pleasant. There are not
many points of interest likely to attract the traveller out of
the regular road. The ruins of an old chapel and church-
yard a little way to the north, and the remains of Kilmahew
Castle, are the two objects usually pointed out as worthy of
examination. This chapel was subordinate to the ancient
church of Cardross. The castle was the residence of Kapler

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of Kilmaliew, a branch of the great Napier family who
occupy such a prominent position in Scottish annals. The
ruins of the old church of Cardross are still remembered on
the point opposite Dumbarton Castle. The Lords Commis-
sioners, at the disjunction of Row in 1643, ordained the kirk
of Cardross to be transported to a more commodious place ;
and on 12th September following, the ground was marked
out for the new kirk and manse, in the situation now occupied
by the present buildings. Kilmaliew had not, however, been
always united to Cardross. Immediately after the reforma-
tion, and for many years after, qualified ministers were not
sufficient for the parishes, and often one minister had to
hold a plurality of kirks, by the help of readers. In the
register of ministers and readers of 1574, "Rosneith,
Kilmahew, and Bulhill (Bonhill)," appear united under
Malcolm Stevenson as minister, assisted by Ninian Gait as
reader at Roseneath, and Adam Hutcheson at Kilmahew,
At a farm called Castlehill, two miles nearer Dumbarton,
once stood a residence of King Robert Bruce, and the place
where he breathed his last after the stormy vicissitudes of
his life had passed, and his kingdom had enjoyed a measure
of rest and freedom. What an affecting sight it must have
been to have seen that lion-hearted old king bowed down
by disease and premature age sunning himself on the fair
Clyde, or in view of his coming end, detailing to his nobles
and barons those wise and prudential measures for the pro-
tection and preservation of a kingdom lying so near his
heart, and which had cost him such a trouble to preserve !
and then the record of his death here, there is scarcely a
more touching incident in all Scottish history. How he
bequeathes to his tried and noble friend the Douglas — whose
friendship had been of that rare and enduring character

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•which no misfortune or disaster could diminish — his heart
when it should beat no more ; and enjoins him to bear it to
Jerusalem to fulfil his vow, in place of his body ; and how
as every schoolboy knows, the Douglas, old though he was
undertook the commission, and afterwards, tossing the golden
casket containing that precious heart into the midst of the
Saracen host, perished in following it. There was a sincere
piety in all this which we must not judge of or measure by
the standard of our own times, and which ignorance or
bigotry alone would censure. In Scottish history there are
but two epochs that relieve it from a dry record of barbarism
— of traitorous nobles and an oppressed people — the record
of our struggle for national independence, and the Reforma-
tion. With the former of these Cardross, as we have seen,
is intimately associated, and will ever remain a place of note
insignificant though it otherwise be, as connected with the
life and death of a true king. In the parish of Cardross the
grandfather of the historian, Macaulay, was minister during
considerable period of his life. Another distinguished his-
torian and novelist, Tobias Smollett, was born in it, and
near the place of his nativity, at Renton, a relative has
erected a column in his memory, on which a familiar Latin
inscription records the virtues and life of the author of
"Roderick Random."

GLEN FRUIN

This most interesting and beautiful glen may be approached
by several routes from Helensburgh. The most usual is by
the road to Luss, which approaches very close to it at one
or two points, and ultimately crosses the stream. The best,
however, for one who has leasure and a desire to explore it
thoroughly, is by crossing the range of hills on the Garelochj

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a little above Shandon, whence you decend into the upper
part of the glen, not far from its sources. The ascent is
pretty steep, but amply is the toil repaid as the traveller
reaches the summit. Beneath him on the one hand stretches
out Gareloch, like a sheet of molten silver overtopped by
the purple hills. To the east can be traced the traok of the

E-leu Frutn

Clyde, its towns, villages and wooded hills, till Dumbarton
rock hides it from view. On the left hand, the vale of
Fruin slopes away through moorland, wood, and corn-
field till it reaches Lochlomond shores. For many miles
through it the eye follows the windings of the stream as it

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gushes through the rocks, or pauses amid the meadows, or
struggles through the arms of the leafy hazels that strive to
hide it as it dashes along. The descent from the brow of
the hill is easy and short, and the pedestrian soon stands
upon the borders of the stream. The upper part of the
glen embraces a large semicircular tract of pasture meadow,
hemmed in on three sides by heath-clad hills. Through
the meadows flow numberless little streams,, the limpid
parents of the Fruin. There is a cart road leading down cne
side of the glen ; but for the pedestrian who is willing to
encounter a little extra fatigue, which will be more than
amply repaid by the scenery he must enjoy, the burnside is
the best path. On a bright, pure day, the whole picture ia
one of calm sweet beauty. Lazily the cattle rest on thd
marsh, or stand fetlock deep in the stream. The long
meadow grasses scarce wave to the breeze; there is no sound
of man's existence breaking on the ear. The dragon-fly or
the bee, humming past you in their flight, the distant whirr
of the blackcock, the cry of curlew or plover, or bleat of
sheep, alone wake the echoes, while the stream yields an un-
wearying song as it journeys towards home —

' ' Glittering over the deeper pools,
Ghttering over the sand" —

rising as it hurries through the stony channel, still louder as
it dashes over rocky barriers, and sinking into a quiet
lullaby as it circles through the sedgy pool where the gray
duck and her dusky brood hide themselves from stranga
eyes.

One cannot help a certain mournful retrospect at the',
changes which time must have wrought in this glen. Like
most other Highland retreats, it must have been thickly
peopled in the days when the war-cry was a familiar sound

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and clansmen rushed to a summons which would now find
only an echo among the gray rocks. Little stretch of imagi-
nation is necessary to conjure up clusters of lowly shielings,
the straggling patches of ill-fenced corn, and curling peat
smoke, and groups of half-clad, noisy children playing among
the tall ferns by the burnside, where the greensward and half-
eflfaced traces of ancient foundations now stretch down the
hills. These days of Highland clansmen have rapidly passed
away. The commercial power is now supplanting the feudal
power, and the change of the face of nature has been cor-
respondingly great. The substantial farm-steading, the
active husbandman, and the cultivated field, occupy the
sites of rude barbarism. And there are not a few farms,
monuments of enterprise and energy throughout the glen.
The land is not very fertile nor the exposure desirable ; yet
the work of reclaiming waste moor, and converting profitless
bog into fields of grass and grain has gone on of late years
with great rapidity. Nor does it follow that all the romance
and poetry of the people are extinct, because feudalism and
vandalism are passing away. Romance and poetry never
pass away. They are to the soul what the everlasting hills
and mountains are to the landscape; only, as man rises in
the scale of humanity they become sublimated and exalted
in degree. The rural swain still sings as passionately of
love — is still as faithful to his mistress, and as bold in
danger as ever henchman of belted knight was. And
Glen Fruin is somewhat celebrated for the amatory effusions
Cupid has inspired. We quote a specimen given in an inter-
esting little book by Mr. Robert Blakely : —

"I've often seen the roses blaw —

I've often stray'd the flowers among —
I've often heard on birken shaw
The httle woodlark's heavenly song —

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"I've often mark'd in cloudless sky
The progress of the rising moon ;
But never aught could yield me joy
Like roaming on the banks of Fruin.

'Twas here I saw a diamond bright ;

Hpr raven hair's the jetty craw ;
Her silvery neck as pure and white

As is the bosom of sea -maw ;
The living drop frae off the lip

0' this dear saint in beauty's noon,
An angel's sel' nwght fondly sjp,

Sae sweet ! the maiden o' Glen Gruin,"

After emerging from the meadow land, a whitewashed
building on the left side of the stream, surrounded by a
score of riotous children, instructs the tourist that even
here the schoolmaster is abroad. "Who would not like to be
a scholar in such a school-house ! A mountain stream to
revel in summer's play-hours at the very door. Ha^el dells
within a stone's throw, where nests and nuts in their season
may be found in any quantity, and the purple heathery hill
behind, crossed with turf-dikes, where the wild bee has her
store, and the blaeberry grows. Doubtless many a stalwart
man and matronly woman far distant now remembers, with a
sigh and a tear, the joyous days spent at this early Alma
Mater.

The ruins of an old chapel, some years since, stood close
by the stream ; and the locality is still indicated by the
name of " The Chapel." Many of the stones were built into
the school-house and adjacent farm-steading occupied by Mr,
Jardine. The remains of a lint mill, which stood close by
it, are still distinctly traceable on a rocky knowe close by
the stream. Beneath them, the waters fall over a series of
rocky ledges into a deep pool ; there the rocks and trees
surround a natural basin, sheltered from the winds on every
side. Imagination records a time when the gray monks

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tenanting the chapel lands may have often, in this unchang-
ing solitude, sat pondering over the vicissitudes of time, and
meditating on the few and simple events of their lonely
lives. And a fitting spot it is, too, for quiet reverie. The
mossy sward, close by the water edge, offers a tempting
seat. Shut out from all view of human existence, with the
gray rocks rising around you, and beyond, above their sum-
mits, the tops of the everlasting hills, with the many voices
of the waters darting first impetuously over their opposing
bulwarks, in hoarse angry tone, then murmuring in the
pool beneath — now again in livelier melody, dancing over
the fretted edges of their slaty bed, as they unweariedly
sweep past to the bosom of their great parent, with the
graceful fern maintaining hardy life on almost barren
crevices in the rocks, waving its leaflets to the melody, the
tall foxglove, and the modest primrose looking up from its
roots, its beauty unnoticed but by the eye of Heaven, and
its sweets unknown, save to the wandering bee — in such a
nook one could loiter and muse a summer day.

" For busy thoughts, the stream flows on
In foamy agitation,
And sleeps in many a crystal pool
For quiet contemplation. "

What a different scene was enacted here on a bleak
February morning in 1603! The hills were clad with snow,
and the biting frosty wind sweeping down the glen, when
the war pibroch was heard awakening its echoes, and the
wild shout of armed caterans startled the deer from his lair
among the heather. The Macgregors and Colquhouns met
in deadly feud by the river side, and one of the most san-
guinary conflicts on record between two rival clans occurred.
For many years previous the Macgregors had been a pro-

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scribed clan. Enactments had been passed against them
and commissions obtained " to fersen and assege their housis
and strengthis, raise fyre and use all kind of force and wer-
lyke ingyne " against them. Such commissions put into the
hands of crafty and designing statesmen like Archibald, Earl
of Argyll, were not likely to prove a dead letter. There is
rather reason to suppose that, as Breadalbane and Argyll had
grasped at and secured the lands of this clan in the counties
of Perth and Argyll, and were exposed to the retaliative
wrath of the oppressed, these commissions were obtained for
their own particular benefit. That was not an age of par-
liamentary commissions, or committees of inquiry into the
proceedings of men in power; and the most lawless and
rapacious deeds might, under slight sanction of authority,
be safely perpetrated in a country so little known as the
Highlands of Scotland. How the feud with the clan Colqu-
houn originated does not very clearly appear from any
account which has been handed down. It is asserted on the
one hand that the Colquhouns, lending a helping hand to
the strong, were the original aggressors ; and on the other,
that the murder of Sir Humphrey Colquhoun in the Castle
of Bannachra, in 1592, had been planned and accomplished
by the Macgregors, in company with the Macfarlanes, and
that this was the foundation of the quarrel. But neither of
these statements rest on any broad basis of fact, and can
only be adopted as probabilities in absence of anything more
tangible. There seems, however, to be good reason for
supposing that, for artful and selfish purposes, the original
quarrel was fomented into such a bitter and relentless hate
as clansmen only could cherish, by Archibald of Argyll.
He was then King's Lieutenant, and something more, in
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power was, according to good authority, to incite the
Macgregors to acts of hostility against his own personal foes.
If the declaration of Macgregor of Glenstrae can be believed,
and there seems no good reason to doubt it, Argyll seems to
have acted the part of a very Judas in his dealings with
these and other clans.

The immediate cause of the conflict in Glen Fruin is not
easily discoverable. It is more than probable that an out-
rage of some kind was meditated by the Macgregors, of
which the Colquhouns had obtained timely notice, and pre-
pared to meet them. Allister Macgregor, chief of the clan,
and his brother John, seem to have been accompanied by
about three hundred men ; and probably the number of the
Colquhouns was not less. It has been reported at eight
hundred ; but this is surely a mistake, for it is hardly credi-
ble that the Laird of Luss could have raised such a force.
Allister's superior military tactics were manifest in the divi-
sion of his men into two bodies ; one of which, led by him-
self occupied the upper jDart of the glen, while the men under
his brother lay concealed near its foot. The clansmen met
somewhere in the vicinity of the farm now known as Strone,
and for a time the struggle was keen and fierce; but the
Macgregors, long accustomed to the guerilla warfare of these
Highland recesses, at length triumj)hed, and the Colquhouns
were driven back. They then fell into the ambush laid by
John Macgregor, who seems to have been afterwards slain
in the conflict, and were pursued with disastrous slaughter
to Rossdhu, a distance of about six miles, and a fearful scene
of bloodshed and plunder ensued after the fight. The farm
houses and shielings in and near the glen were entered, their
inmates cruelly butchered, the houses burned, and the cattle
carried off. In the indictment laid against their chief, the

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cattle are described as six hundred kye and oxen, eight hun-
dred sheep and goats, and fourteen score of horse. There
were killed of the Colquhouns about one hundred and forty
— in the battle or retreat — while the loss of the Macgregors
seems, by all accounts, not to have exceeded a few men.

Tradition assert that the victorious Macgregors, inflamed
with victory, wantonly murdered in cold blood some thirty
or forty boys, students in the Collegiate Institution at Dum-
barton, who had been spectators of the fight. These had
been gathered together in a house near Bannachra, and were
placed under a guard for protection; but at the close of the
day, when the chief of the Macgregors inquired after them,
he found that certain of his followers, in the absence of the
guard, had butchered the whole of them. There may be
some exaggeration in the statement ; but the subsequent
criminal trial of various of the clan, and their depositions
contain allusions which clearly place beyond doubt the fact
of some such circumstance having occurred.

The Macgregors returned to their native fastnesses with
their booty, where they were welcomed by the plaudits of
their clan; but the retributive arm of the law, weak as it
then was, soon followed them thither. Sir Alexander
Colquhoun appeared before King James YI., at Stirling,
followed by a mournful procession of the widows of the slain
men, bearing their husbands' bloody plaids and armour.
Such a spectacle was not presented in vain before the weak
king. It was followed by an act of the Privy Council, ad-
vising extermination to the clan, making it even an offence
punishable with death to give any of them food or shelter.
They were consequently pursued and hunted in every corner,
their leaders executed, their possessions destroyed, and their
children either put to death, or committed to the tender

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mercies of some lawless cliief, and forbid to bear the name of
Macgregor.'"'

After leaving the chapel, the stream follows a winding
irregular course through the glen, till it reaches a point
where it is crossed by the road to Luss. Here, and for some
distance along its banks, it is densely wooded. On the right-
hand side, a little beneath the bridge, stands on a command-

Baurtacirra iSastle,

ing situation the old castle of Bannachra, once possessed by
the Colquhouns, and in which Sir Humphrey Colquhoun was

* We have been indebted for many of the foregoing particulars, re-
garding the battle of Glen Fruin, to Irving's History of Dumbarton-
shire.

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murdered under circumstances of peculiar barbarity by some
of tlie Clan M'Earlane. The castle itself is worth a visit;
but as it is rather out of the way at present, we only observe
that it has been a superior building to the majority of the
old keeps in the Highlands. From its situation it commands
a magnificent view of Lochlomond, and the country beyond.
A more modern mansion, belonging to the Buchanans of
Arden, now the property of James Lumsden, Esq., of
Arden, has been built beside it, which is now let to the farm
tenant. Beneath the castle the river winds picturesquely
along till it reaches Dunfin mill, where it falls over a rocky
breastwork of considerable height. This is a favourite spot
for artists in the summer season; the mill, the waterfall,
and the wooded rocks form a very beautiful scene, woi-thy
the pencil of M'CuUoch or Donald. In autumn, during
flood, the trout may be seen in considerable numbers ascend-
ing this fall. It is interesting to witness their j)atient, per-
severing effort to overcome the natural barrier to their pro-
gress— effort almost invariably crowned with the success
it deserves. After taking another curve, the stream runs in
an almost straight line to Lochlomond, which receives its
waters, after a course of eight or nine miles through varied
and beautiful scenery. Alike to botanist, geologist, and
naturalist, a visit to Glen Fruin cannot fail to be interesting
and profitable, nor less so to the simple rambler, who, in
the contemplation of nature, has his thoughts exalted to
Him whose handiwork he surveys, who has clothed the earth
with beauty, and everywhere teaches us to reverence and
love His power, wisdom, and goodness.

The Fruin being the largest stream in the parish, is much
frequented by the bi'ethren of the rod in summer. It is a
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basket. Tlie trout run small in it, and from the frequency
with which it is fished are very shy. Late in the season a
number of sea trout find their way into its pools, chiefly in the
upper ranges ; but seem to be caught only by an initiated few.
Salmon do not ascend the stream till very late in the season
and then only for a short distance to spawn and retii'e again
to the more congenial waters of the loch. It is now, along
with Lochlomond and other tributaries of the loch, under
the management of an angling club; but the old fishers
to the "manner born," say that protection has not im-
proved it as a fishing stream, although the number of fish
may be increased. Probably notoriety has injured it, as it
has injured many better things. When it was unprotected
it was comparatively little frequented ; protection has given
it a name, and from the frequency with which it is now
fished the fish have become wary and shy. The Luss
water, distant a few miles, is well reported of as a superior
stream. Small dark coloured files with teal drake or
landrail wing are most suitable for the native trout, and
red or yellow for sea trout. The high ranges of both streams
are best. The fish become scarcer as you near the foot of
the streams.

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Is perhaps the favourite spot beyond all others in the neigh-
bourhood for pic-nic parties, and deservedly so, for no other
presents, within the same easy access, so much lovely seclu-
sion and such a variety of shady strolls, and luxurious scenes
of natural beauty. Among its shady ^^aths, and by its pebbly
shores one could loiter unweariedly a summer day. The
stately woods, with their richness of colour, graduating from
the dull, dark yew, to the brown beech, closing in every*
where around ; the evervarying features of the hills, and the

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nuisical restlessness of the waters of the loch, mirroring the
unfathomable blue depths and floating clouds of heaven on their
bosom ; the glimpses of distant scenery through the overarch-
ing trees ; the plash of the tiny waterfall, and many-voiced
songsters among the broom and brush- wood, yield a rich
harvest of quiet delight. To one who can appreciate beau-
tiful scenery, and whose mind is susceptible of those influ-
ences it is calculated to produce, a stroll through the eastern
part of the parish cannot but be both pleasant and profitable.
The water here is deep, and the beach shelving rapidly down
to it, so that a boat, at almost any stage of the tide, runs
high up upon the shore and disembarkation is easily eflected.
Right before you stands the Castle of Roseneath, a beautiful
mansion, belonging to the Duke of Argyll, built of polished
freestone, in the Koman Ionic style. It was begun in 1803,
and has been gradually advancing towards completion, but
parts of the interior are not yet finished. Another castle
used to occupy a green knoll nearer the water, but which
was destroyed by fire some sixty years since. The design of
the modern building, which was furnished by Bononi of
London, is very imposing, and the efiect is increased by its
position. It commands an extensive view of the Gareloch
in front on the north, Ardencaple and Helensburgh towards
the east, with the surrounding hills as a background. In
front, the ground on the immediate vicinity of the castle is
laid out as a lawn, interspersed with patches of copse wood
and evergreen, stretches down to the beach. It is surrounded
on all other sides by woods of great age, through which a
variety of walks and drives have been formed with great
taste. Campsail Bay, in front of the castle, is one of the
most lovely bays on the Clyde. From its sheltered situation
it is peculiarly adapted for winter harbourage of numerous

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cutters and small craft. During the French war it was
used as a harbour for a considerable portion of the fleet at
one time, and in later times its friendly shelter was sought
by her Majesty, for a night during one of her visits to Scot-
land. From this circumstance it is almost as well known as
the Queen's Bay as by its other title. The night and fol-
lowing morning in which her Majesty visited Gareloch were
very stormy. It is told of an Helensburgh baker, who had
received orders to provide the royal table with bread, that
in order to immortalise himself, he baked a great cake
worthy of royalty, and intended as an offering to her
Majesty; and in the morning, dressed in his best, he accom-
panied the'cake, in charge of two apprentices. But luckless
apprentices and unfortunate gift ! In ascending the side of
the royal yacht one of them stumbled, his hold gave way,
and the cake was precipitated into the water, food for fishes
instead of royalty. There is not much in the interior of the
castle to attract visitors. Inverary, which is the principal
seat in Scotland of the Argyll family, contains almost all
those relics of a past age interesting to antiquaries and
curiosity hunters. In the fire which destroyed the former
building, also perished almost all the old furniture, paintings,
and ornaments which would otherwise have formed a very
valuable collection. Any one curious to examine the house
may, however, in absence of the family, easily obtain admit-
tance, and to those who delight in spacious appartments, well
appointed in every respect, such a visit will be satisfactory.
But on the whole, the gardens and grounds are the chief
attractions in connection with the buildings. These are
kept in excellent order, and laid out with great taste ; and
the gardener who is quite an enthusiast in his profession, is
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improved since our first visit years ago. Then there was
an air of decay and dilapidation everywhere witnessed. It
almost seemed as if decay of the noble house of A.rgyll, so
long prominent both for good and evil in the history of our
country, had fallen upon its outskirts. Our old cicerone,
a boatman, was perhaps not the most fitting guide that
could have been selected to the spot, yet he was an original
in his own way. His ideas of the wooded seclusion in the
neighbourhood of the castle seemed to be regulated by their
adaptation for the unlawful purpose of defrauding her Ma-
jesty's revenue, and he was drawn into a narration of
various "ploys" and hairbreadth escapes of his younger days
connected with the smuggling, and which he seemed to look
back upon with a peculiar relish.

The shores of Campsail bay are in some parts rocky, with
little natural coves running into them. These are a favour-
ite resort of strollers and such little pleasure parties as in
hot summer weather seek a quiet retreat for an hour or two.
They are very picturesque, and ajfford, even in the most
boisterous weather, a pleasant shelter. At the extremity
of the bay you quit the policies connected with the castle,
and emerge on the highway, which runs northward up the
Gareloch, and diverges on the left accross the hill to the
opposite side of the parish, and nearly at the mouth of Loch-
long. The walk up the hill is a very romantic one. The
whole distance does not exceed two miles. For about half a
mile, before the ascent begins, the road runs through a glen,
and passes some picturesque little cottages almost hid among
roses and trailing plants of various kinds. One is almost
tempted to think if love in a cottage, and love amongst the
roses, were ever realized, they might find a fitting abode
here, so great is the profusion of these two favourite con-

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ditions of Cupid's existence. A little further in advance the
traveller passes a Free Church, a neat little building em-
bosomed amongst the trees, and on the hill-side above it
stands the manse. A country pastors life, away from the
excitement, bustle, and unrest of the city existence, might
almost be expected to be fully realized here. The church,
however, seems rather awkwardly situated, as it stands
neither in the village of Roseneath, nor near enough to the
modern villages of Kilcreggan and Cove to be easily accessi-
ble on a wet Sabbath, and on a summer day so far distant
that the walk may be supposed to excite the soporific tenden-
cies of the congregation. The hill, once ascended, the view
that breaks upon the eye is very grand. On the one side is
the Gareloch, on the other the Firth of Clyde, with many
smiling little villages along its shores, screened behind by
high ranges of hills, behind which the blue peak of Goatfell
towers up to the clouds. At all times studded with
steamers and sailing vessels of every kind, the Firth presents
an animated and busy appearance, and the distant white
feather of the locomotive suggests that unwearying human,
industry whose wealth and energies have reclaimed all these
coasts from a rude wilderness, and impressed them with the
evidences of taste and comfort. Almost immediately at the
base of the hill stands the modern village of Kilcreggan,
which has sprung into existence during the past six years
and about a mile further west, and nearly opposite Lochlong,
the kindred village of Cove. In both of these, villas are
built in good taste, with considerable pretensions to archi-
tectural design, and the gardens and lawns are neatly laid out.
The feus are held from the Duke of Argyll at much more
reasonable terms than at many of the neighbouring watering-
places. The villages are not likely to increase much in size,

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however, unless liis Grace gives off ground for building
further east, as much of the available ground near the water
is already occupied. The road runs in front of these villas
and along the shores of Lochiong towards Arrochar, As the
parish of Roseneath is not very extensive — stretching little
more than seven miles from east to west, and from one to
four miles broad — the pedestrian may easily survey the whole
of it in one day, by keeping along the road till he reaches
Peaton, the estate of J. D. Campbell, Esq., or onwards to
Portincaple, whence there is a road across the hill which
brings him again close upon the Gareloch and joins the road
leading from E-oseneath Bay to the loch, near Rahane Mill.
Continuing his walk down the loch, the pedestrian passes
Barreman House, the jDropertyof E.. C. Cumming, Esq., who
is also proprietor of a considerable part of the land on this
side of the parish. On his grounds a number of very hand
some houses have been built, and till the more recent vil-
lages started on the Lochiong shore, they were a favourite
resort, being, in fact, the only summer quarters for the
visitors in the parish. To one great drawback, however,
the houses are liable on this side of the Gareloch, and that is,
they occupy a northerly position,

"And the spring comes slowly up this way."

The high screen of hills behind the houses must also have
considerable influence in shortening the summer day. On
Barreman there is an excellent slate quarry, which was
worked for several years past by an enterprising firm in
Glasgow. It appears to be a continuation of the seam
which has for long been quarried at Luss. It breaks out in
the range of hills at the head of Glen Fruin, where there
are traces of old workings, appears again above Row, and in

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the same line at Roseneath. The slate is slightly darker in
colour than that found at Luss quarries, but seems nothing
inferior in quality. The lands of Barreman terminate a
little to the west of Roseneath Ferry, where the Argyll
property on this side of the parish commences. Opposite
the ferry the loch narrows from about a mile and a half to
little more than three hundred yards, a long neck or point
running out from Row far into its waters. At ebb or flood-
tide, the rush of the stream here is very great, and if any
wind is blowing, its waters at times boil and beat furiously.
A pier has been erected at the ferry for the accommodation
of steamers, at which they can land their passengers in all
weathers. A small tax, but which must amount to a very
handsome rent in the course of the year, is exacted by his
Grace from passengers landing or embarking. A little
above the Ferry-house stands Clachan House, belonging to
the Argyll family. There is here an avenue of yew trees
leading from the house to the old church, believed to have
been planted in the time of Charles II. These, along with
two immense silver firs in the woods at Campsail — supposed
to be the first of their species planted in Scotland — are the
chief sylvan glories of the parish, and amply worth a visit.
Passing up fi-om the ferry, the parish church, a neat little
building in the early English style, strikes the eye. It was
erected in 1853-4 from a design by D. Cousin, Esq., of Edin-
burgh, and originally consisted simply of nave and chancel,
but in 1862 another aisle accommodating 130 sitters was
added — making the whole number 500. In the chancel are
the pulpit, communion table, and font — the latter a gift to
the church. The space on the wall of the chancel below the
window is filled by a large illuminated table of the com-
mandments drawn and coloured from mediaeval designs by

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W. A. Muirliead, Esq., Edinburgh, and to the left a smaller
of the Lord's prayer — both gifts from the artist. To the
right is a monument in Ayrshire stone and white marble,
containing a medallion by Wm. Brodie, Esq., E,.S,A., dedi-
cated by his parishioners and friends to the revered memory
of the late Robert Story, minister of Roseneath, whose pas-
torate of forty-two years closed in 1859. In the neigh-

bourhood of it is Roseneath village or clachan — imm^or-
talised by Sir Walter Scott. It probably has not in-
creased since the times of Jeanie Deans, and consists of less
than a score of little low-roofed cottages, occupied by a pri-
mitive and contented population, who hold themselves secure
under the shadow of the great MacCallum More's wing.

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The old parish church stood nearer the clachan than the
present one. It was a plain old building, as may still be
seen, — old enough to be associated with the labours of
Reuben Butler, and valuable, as affording building spaces
among its timbers to hordes of swallows and bats. On a very-
wet day the congregregation we are told, had to select their
seats with a view to avoid the drip from the ceiling, and the
necessity of an umbrella over the precentor's head often sug-
gested itself to strangers. This state of things, has, however,
happily passed away, and the congregation now worship in
comfort in any kind of weather. For some time prior to the
beginning of the thirteenth century, the church was a free
parsonage, and under patronage of the Earl of Lennox ; but
about this time it was given to the monks of Paisley in per-
petual alms, and continued as one of their curacies till the
Reformation. At removal of part of the last church, the
bell was found to bear an inscription in Latin to the effect
that it had been made in Holland early in the seventeenth
century. It is suspended in the new building, and has a
wonderfully musical tongue to have wagged so long. As in
most other romantic spots on the borders of the Scottish
Lowlands, tradition associates Roseneath with blind Harry
and Sir William Wallace, and near the castle there is pointed
out to the credulous a rock called Wallace's leap. These
traditions doubtless invest the spot with some degree of in-
terest, however much our sober judgment may feel disposed
to reject them. There is probably more truth in the story
of several of the persecuted Covenanters having found
shelter and protection from Argyll here in times of hardship
and trial, and till a recent date it is said certain descendants
of the renowned Balfour of Burley were found living in the
neighbourhood.

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One peculiarity connected with tlie parisli is deserving of
notice and of the attention of naturalists. A writer in the
old statistical account of Scotland says: — "Here rats cannot
exist ; many of these have at different times been accidentally
imported from vessels lying upon the shore, but were never
known to live twelve months in the place. From a prevail-
ing opinion that the soil of tHis place is hostile to that
animal, some years ago a West India planter actually carried
out to Jamaica several casks of Roseneath earth, with
a view to kill the rats that were destroying his sugar-canes.
It is said this had not the desired effect : so we lost a very
valuable export. Had the experiment succeeded, this would
have been a new and valuable trade for the proprietors; but
perhaps by this time the parish of Hoseneath might have
been no more." How far the existence of animal life in
this form is still unknown in this parish, the present writer
is unable to determine; but if it is singular in this exemp-
tion, it is also singular in another — the absence of such a
thing as a public-house. Although there is an inn at Hose-
neath Ferry, and a temperance hotel at Kilcreggan, both
much frequented, there is not an inn, lodging-house, or shop,
in the parish where a single lawful glass of whisky can be
obtained — no great deprivation, probably, to any one, but
an illustration at home of the possibility of a pretty large
and populous parish thriving under the Maine liquor rule,
which the advocates of temperance seem to have altogether
forgotten. This has been the case now for some time, and
we suppose as long as his Grace the present Duke of Argyll,
continues to rule on his own lands, it will remain so.
There have been a few celebrated men born in this parish,
amongst whom we may notice the mathematician, Matthew
Stewart, father of the distinguished philosopher, Dugald

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Stewart, and Dr. Anderson, the founder of the Andersonian
University. Glasgow. Both Dugald Stewart and Dr. Ander-
son were children of parish ministers of Roseneath, and
they are still referred to with no little pride by the older
inhabitants, as samples of what the parish could produce.
Besides the parish church, of which the Rev. Robert Her-
bert Story, ordained in 1859, is minister, there is the Free
Church already mentioned — Rev. J. M'Ewan, minister ;
Craigrownie Chapel, in connexion with the Establishment,
erected to meet the wants of the population of Cove, Kil-
creggan, and Craigrownie — Rev. David Shanks, minister ;
and a wooden building erected by the United Presbyterian
body near Kilcreggan, in which the Rev. Joseph Corbett is
pastor. The population of the parish, according to last cen-
sus, was 1 600. The resident Justices of the Peace are R. C.
Cumming, Esq., Baremann, and Alexander Abercromby,
Esq. of Craigrownie Castle.

COYE AND KILCREGGAK

Middle aged i-eaders will remember Kilcreggan Ferry
house, with its thatched roof and whitewashed gables stand-
ing by the pleasant little bay, sheltered by the grassy knowe
behind and projecting headlands on each side. Many of
them will remember it with kindly feelings as the goal of
boyish rambles from Gourock and Helensburgh, during
summer holidays, where homely oat cakes and bowls of fresh
milk— and such milk it was, rich and fragant as nectar —
were always to be had from the good wife, who had a special
regard for the whole race of boys. Even ripe gooseberries
and the more luscious strawberries and cream were not
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fared, when there were elders amongst them, we care not to
enquire, but for boyhood, no better baiting place than the
old ferry existed, and no pleasanter ramble than up the hill
to the little clachan, or by the sea shore to examine the
salmon nets and hunt for nests among the broom. These
days have passed away. The ferry house still stands, the
thatched farm steading is still there, but the delightful
privacy, the primitive hospitality, the joyous sense of freedom
from all constraint or possible interference are gone. Modern
civilization has placed its fetters on the Arcadian freedom
of the spot. The road maker, the builder, the gardener, and
worse than all, the Police Act has been abroad, and there is
no lodge in the wilderness with any contiguity of shade left,
no more wandering at sweet will by the solitudes of the
sea shore, possible to the wayfarer.

Cove and Kilcreggan though two distinct villages are
classed together. They are embraced as one police district
under the provisions of the General Police Act, and very
soon will form one continuous line of villas and gardens.
Standing on the south-western part of the peninsula of Pose-
neath they have an admirable exposure — are warm, dry,
and healthy places of resort, and possess facilities for sea
bathing which no other place so near Glasgow enjoys. If
only a little of the attention were given to the convenience
and comfort of sea bathers, which exist so abundantly in our
English and foreign watering places, by the employment of
bathing machines and placing them under proper regulation,
Kilcreggan and Cove might become the most fashionable
resort on the Clyde. But the Scotch mind is slow to appro-
priate ideas foreign to the groove in which ancestral practice
has worked, and the growth of a watering place unfortu-
nately brings no increase of comfort or convenience.

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The estate of Roseneath, on which these villages are built,
it is almost needless to say, belongs to the Duke of Argyll.
The lands were offered to feu about the year 1848, and since
then the places may be said to have sprung into existence.
A pier was erected at Kilcreggan in 1850, and one at Cove
in 1852. There are two churches. The Established at
Craigrownie, pleasantly situated on the hill side, and built
in 1853, and the United Presbyterian, a wooden erection,
put up in 1858. A new stone building, to supersede this
wooden house, is now being erected.

The principal drives are to Roseneath village, four miles
distant through a beautifully wooded dale j to Coulport, five
miles distant by the shores of Lochlong, and round the
parish by Rahane and Peaton about twelve miles.

There is not much in the neighbourhood to interest the
antiquarian. Tradition points to Balfour of Burley having
made it his retreat after the defeat of the Covenanters at
Bothwell Brig, and his descendants are said still, or lately,
to have been found living in the parish. Scott's " Knock-
dunder Tower," immortalised in the Heart of Midlothian,
stood somewhere on the west extremity of the now conjoined
Burgh, and the site is said to be occupied by a wooden
house. Celtic arms, cists, human remains, and ancient coins
have in recent times been discovered in various parts of the
district, but not to any great extent.

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LUSS.

A pretty stiff ascent of about a mile, and you are over
the summit of the Black Hill, looking down on Helens-
burgh, up at the heavens, or straight forward across a
moor, through which the road winds onwards to Loch-
lomond. If the day is hot, you long to keep company with
the herd of black cattle standing knee-deep in the pond, or
the sheep sheltered beneath the long heather ; for the sun
pours down mercilessly on your shelterless head, and glows
on you as only on the moor the sun can glow and burn.
But if the wind stirs from any ]3oint of the compass, you
gratefully feel it here. Even when the firth below is calm
and unruffled, and the white gull "floats double" on its
bosom, the bog cotton is nodding its head, and the tall
grasses rustling their spears together to the passing zej)hyr,
on this high table-land. By the time you have reached the
summit of the ascent, you are fain to rest and look before
you, unless bent on a more lengthened walk. The blue
lieavens are overhead, the purple heath beneath, and every-
where around you, the distant Grampian range in front,
with a little peep of Lochlomond, like a glittering stone,
shining somewhere between the wooded knolls below you ;
the air made musical with unnumbered songs, from the chirp
of the grasshopper at your side to the wail of the circling
plover above you. How pleasant to rest and feel the glow of
life and beauty that flows from God's works, and seems to flll,
and purify as it fills, the thirsting soul ! A broken moor,
flanked by hills, and embracing the valley of the Fruin,
stretches from this point away down to the shores of Lochlo-
mond, some five miles distant. Yery much the- same aspect

Luss. 95-

must this unreclaimed bog and meadow have borne long cen-
turies ago, when the tourists who frequented it were not
young ladies botanising, or young gentlemen rambling with
kit or creel but kilted caterans of the clans, who loved
nature best when in her darkest moods, and the road best
when the stocking of a Sassenach byre was marching on
before them.

Past a clump of wood, past corn fields, then out into more
\\raste moor, dotted over with little stacks of peat, with the
peewit wheeling in the air, and the snipe starting from the
ditch at your feet ; past low-lying, sheltered farm home-
steads, that the winter wind, as it howls down the glen,
never in its maddest fury reaches — where bee-hives are
planted thickly in the garden, and the honeysuckle climbs
about the door, and the collie basks sleepily in the porch;
past a dark shady glen, the haunt of the roe-deer and rabbit,
in whose recesses the pigeon chants its mournful song —

' ' Where the denser grove receives

No sunlight from above ;
But the dark foliage interweaves
In one unbroken roof of leaves,
Underneath whose sloping eaves

The shadows hardly move. "

Past a sparkling stream, making melody to the wild fl.owers
and woods, as it dances and leaps on its way to the lake
beneath ; past another ascent, up a little hill, not so difficult
or so long as the first, with a high primrose-covered bank on
each side, and then suddenly before you stretches out a
noble prospect. The lower waters of the loch are seen, and
a wide range of hill and dale, meadow and moor, are spread
out before you, — such a view as the eye cannot take in at a
glance, but return to again and again, gathering fresh plea-
sures at each fresh discovery of its beauties, till the gazer

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is tempted to give utterance to the feelings awakened, in
words of deepest and delighted wonder.

A long low wall, clad in many places with patches of
maidenhair fern, and others, which encloses the policies of
Rossdhn, now prevents the pedestrian, for some time from
seeing much that is interesting, continuing for above a mile,
and then Lochlomond is seen in its beauty and grandeur,
with the island of Inchtavannach opposite. It bursts upon
you at once ; you breathe the fresh atmosphere of liberty ;
your eyes dwell upon a vision of loveliness, and you draw
a long involuntary inspiration of delight. You have been
wondering for half an hour past, how it looked on close ap-
proach, and vainly conjecturing the beauties that might be
visible were you on the other side of that endless wall; but
now, all this is forgotten, and you revel in the unexpected
panorama of slyvan and romantic beauty that lies before
you.

*' A dewy freshness fills the silent air ;
No mist obscures, nor cloud, nor speck, nor stain
Breaks the serene of heaven."

The islands, and their o'erhanging woods, seem to sleep upon
the tranquil waters, whose stainless bosom reflects their
beauties, and mirrors the blue sky^ and each broken white
cloud, on its placid depths. Each step reveals new features,
and brings to light new points in the landscape, more lovely,
if possible, where all is lovely. "With slackened pace and
enraptured sight, the spectator leisurely lingers, and notes
every fresh object of interest that the windings of the road
reveals to him. " The courting-tree," a wide-spreading and
densely leaved monarch of the wood, familiar in the dreams
of Luss lads and lasses for many generations, attracts atten-
tion to it itself as you pass, and little glimpses of the lake

Luss. 97

and mountains obtained through long tunnels of interweaving
branches, stereoscopic in minute beauties and effects, arrest
your steps at almost every turn. Less than half an hour
brings you to the old village of Luss, situated almost on the
banks of the loch, and picturesque from its position and
age. It is a little cluster of cottages and gardens, amongst
which several modern cottages have, of late years, been
erected by Sir James Colquhoun, much superior in appear-
ance and comfort to the houses of the old village. Luss
contains one inn, at a little distance from the village, a re-
spectable and commodious house, and favourite resort of
anglers and tourists, and worthy of more patronage than it
receives, commanding a lovely and uninterrupted view of its
islands and opposite shores, with the dark shadow of Bei;-
lomond, like a giant, rising almost in front. The parish
church stands a little to the right, embowered among trees,
a plain building, about a century old; but, judging from the
dates of the tombstones in the churchyard, erected near the
site of an older church. In summer, when the neighbour-
hood is thronged with visitors, it is found rather small for
the accommodation of the worshippers, but otherwise suffi-
ciently large. Its appearance is in keeping with the locality.
It is almost impossible to conceive a finer situation for a
rural church. On the confines of the Luss water, and partly
surrounded by lofty trees — overlooking, from its eminences,
the village, and overlooking the lake, hoary with age, and
hallowed by the memory of past generations of worshippers,
whose dust lies mingled around its walls, it forms one of the
best remembered features of the scene.

The tourist to Luss should not neglect obtaining two of
the best views of Lochlomond and its scenery that can be
had. One of these is from the rising ground on the opposite

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island of Inchtavannach ; tlie other, from Stonehill, behind
the village. Both are within easy access ; and from either
point, on a clear summer day, a landscape spreads out before
the eye which scarcely any parallel can be found to in the
scenery of earth's fairest gardens, and which will leave its
impress upon the memory of the spectator through coming
years. If you wish to see the lake properly, and form a
thorough idea of the many glimpses of fairy land to be
obtained amongst its islands and creeks, take a small boat at
Luss, and row through the passages behind the islands oppo-
site. If you wish a more extensive view, and one which, in
our opinion, is not equalled by the far-famed prospect from
the top of the mighty Ben itself, ascend the hill behind For-
kin toll, a few miles above Luss. There, after half an hour's
climb, you will reach a hill lochan, or tarn, called the
Fairy's lake, the waters of which seem, in particular lights,
to glow with all the prismatic colours of the rainbow, and
in which, in olden times, the good-wives dipped their yarn
over-night, and found it dyed the desired hue in the morn-
ing. Look back now towards the loch, and your eyes will
be feasted with a vision of loveliness scarcely equalled in
Scotland. Luss, like almost every old pari.sh of note, had,
in former days, its tutelary saint — one St. Keasog, who is
said to have suffered martyrdom in the sixth century. His-
tory and tradition seem alike silent in regard to his life ;
for, so far as we can learn, none of his deeds have survived
the lapse of years since his decease. His memory is perpet-
uated by the remains of a large cairn of stones in the neigh-
bourhood— the place of his reputed burial — called Cairn-na-
Cheasoig, and a stone effigy dug out of the assumed ruins
of this chapel, which is now removed, and carefully preserved
by the lord of the manor, who takes a deep interest in the

Luss. 99

memorials of the past history of the parish. During the
thirteenth century Haco, of Norway, better known than the
tutelary saint, ravaged the islands of Lochlomond and Luss
and put most of the Celtic inhabitants to death. Probably
then these islands were inhabited by numbers of savage free-
booting Highlanders, who found in them protection and
comparative immunity from danger, till the undaunted Nor-
wegians rooted them out. Since that time they have been
tenanted chielly by deer and game. The two largest of them,
Inchmurrin and Inchtavannach, each of them extending up-
wards of a mile in length, and several of the smaller ones —
such as Inchlonaig and Inchfad — would be capable of sup-
porting several parishes. They are generally fertile, and,
if cultivated, would yield luxuriant crops ; but then their
sylvan beauty would be lost, and that romantic attraction
which they possess, arising, as it does, to a considerable ex-
tent from their natural iuxuriousness, would be lost for ever.
The most utilitarian spirit of this age could hardly desire to
see them clothed with corn instead of the dark yew, the oak,
heath, and fern, or trimmed into grassy slopes, pasturing
sheep in place of the timid deer and rabbit. The Colquhouns
acquired the lands of Luss, and certain of the islands from
the Lennox family, in the fourteenth century and have since
retained them, adding to the original estates many other pro-
perties on the shores of Lochlomond, and adjacent to it, and
at this date, the present Sir James Colquhoun, is one of the
most extensive landholders in Scotland; many parts of his
estates are daily increasing in value to an extent which, half
a century since, would have been deemed fabulous. Eossdhu
House, the beautiful residence of the Colquhoun family,
stands close by the shore of the loch about a mile below Luss.
An older castle stood here, part of the ruins of which are

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still preserved, and lend considerable attractions to the view.
One of the finest views of Lochlomond and the Ben, not so
extensive as those alluded to, but, if possible more lovely, is
obtainable from Rossdhu Bay. The Colquhoun family
trace decent from a younger son of the old Earls of Lennox,
who is said to have obtained a grant of the lands and barony
of Colquhoun for military service, in the reign of Alexander
II., in 1230-50. The names of the descendants of the first
Colquhoun appear in a succession of charters from that
period down to 1465 ; shortly after which. Sir John Colqu-
houn, one of the most distinguished men of his age, obtained
a grant of the lands of Kilmardinny, Koseneath, Strone, &c.
Subsequent history connects the representative heads of the
family with various feuds of the M'Farlanes and M'Gregors.
These turbulent clans were at last, however, subdued, and
ample compensation given to the Colquhouns for the injuries
they had sustained by repeated plunderings and oppressions
they had been the victims of. There have been many very
distinguished men in the long succession traceable down-
wards of this family, which occupies a prominent and hon-
ourable position in Scottish history.

A little steamer, with holiday crowd on board, comes glid-
ing across the lake — a white puff and a roar from the steam-
pipe, a little bustle on deck, and it is moored to the pier at
the end of the village; the bell rings. Fellow-traveller,
who has rambled about so long with us, if as pleasantly to
thee hitherto as to us, we rejoice — wilt shake hands, and
step on board *? We could gladly accompany thee, but our
holiday is ended, and our gossip must cease ; and as the
moorings are loosened, and the pilot takes his stand at the
wheel, with one last wave of the hand we bid you farewell.

EXCURSIONS. 101

EXCURSIONS.

It lias often been asked, "What short excursions from
Helensburgh are within the compass of a day, and how can
they be managed ? Probably the best reply to the question
is to hand the inquirer a railway time-table ; but even this
contains information only for those who know where to seek
it, we may mention two or three routes which may be
selected by the visitor. By taking the early steamer to
Greenock, Rothesay and the Kyles of Bute can be visited,
and return home effected in the evening of the same day.
By the same steamer to Greenock, Lochgoilhead, Arden-
tinny or Arrochar may be gained, and at the latter, the
tourist may return by Lochlomond to Balloch, and thence
home by^rail. By early train to Balloch, Lochlomond and
its various points of interest may be seen and explored, and
return effected in the evening. If, however, a visit to Ben-
lomond is intended, the tourist should start in the afternoon
to Balloch, take steamer to Rowardennan, and remain there
over night, ascending the mountain before dawn, or he may
proceed by Luss and take a small boat across the loch to
Rowardennan on the opposite shore and return the same
day. The view from Benlomond height at dawn is a thing
never to be forgotten — seen later in the day, half its glories
are lost. A pleasant excursion may also be made to Stirling
by the Forth and Clyde Railway, allowing ample time to
inspect this old Scottish town and return; or the Lake of
Menteith, or any of the interesting spots on the line of this
railway may be visited in the same way. lioch Katrine, by
way of Lochlomond and part of the Trossachs, may also be
been within the compass of the day; but it is doing injustice

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to the noble scenery there to hurry through it in such a
fashion. For the sketcher, who does not object to walk a
mile or two, the Glens of Luss, Douglas, and Falloch are all
accessible and worthy of a visit. They should be explored
from the foot upwards. The highlands in the neighbour-
hood are thus almost all accessible within the compass of a
day. As for the more immediate walks and drives, these
have been sufficiently discussed.

SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT.

BY A MEMBER OF THE GLASGOW GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

Tlie western and north-western tracts of the county are
composed of rocks that belong to the Silurian system, and
are supposed to be equivalents of the fossiliferous Silurian
rocks of the south of Scotland, and which exist in the north-
west Highlands in a much higher crystalline or metamor-
phosed condition than they are found in the southern tracts
of this country. The principal varieties of these old crystal-
line stratified rocks, found in this county, are rocks of a
gneissage structure, passing into mica, chorite, talc, and
clay slates, and which are sometimes associated with beds of
quartz rock and crystalline limestone. These rocks often
rise into hills of considerable altitude, and form the highest
points of elevation in this part of the country. Their
rugged peaks, wild radines, and coast sections, impress their
features on the scenery over nearly every part of the west
Highlands. They are often pierced or cut through by veins

SKETCH OF THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT. 103

or dikes of felstone porphyry and other intrusive igneous
rocks, and in many parts of the district, (especially about
Luss), the schistoze rocks are very much contorted and
twisted. Crystals of quartz and other siliceous minerals,
besides metallic ores, are occasionally found in this group of
rocks. But no organic remains have yet been found; their
absence is attributed to the highly metamorphosed condition
of the rocks. If any organic remains originally existed in
them, they seem all to have been destroyed. The red sand-
stone of this country forms part of that belt of old red sand-
stone which stretches across Scotland from sea to sea, along
the whole front of the Grampians, and rests unconformably
upon the older crystalline schists already noticed. It forms
the whole of the rock along the coast between Helensburgh
and Dumbarton, and also forms the tract of land which
stretches up the valley of the Leven, the islands in the
lower reaches of Lochlomond being also composed of it. Its
prevailing colour is bright red, and it affords a good durable
building stone in many localities. It belongs to what is
termed the middle division of the old red sandstone, and in
the west of Scotland it has yielded as yet few recognisable
organic remains.

Resting conformable upon the old red sandstone, there
occurs near Dumbarton, on the east side of the valley of
Leven, an interesting group of thin bedded rocks, known to
geologists as the Levenside limestones; they are composed
of thin bands of nodular limestones, interstratiiied with a
dark gray marly shale, which crumbles down rapidly on
exposure to the weather. This formation is capped by beds
of white coloured sandstone, which is overlaid by the trap
rock which forms the higher parts of the Kilpatrick hills.
The best sections of these thin bedded rocks are to be seen

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in Auclienreocli glen, on the Levenside grounds, where they
form very lofty eminences on each side of the glen, and pre-
sent to the geologist some of the finest veins of stratification
to be seen in this country side. The strata is traversed by
several intrusive dykes of greenstone and felstone, which
being harder then the surrounding beds, often stand up as
natural walls across the glen. Between partings of the
strata are to be found, at one or two points, some thin
veins of a fine, white, crystallised gypsum, from which fine
specimens are to be obtained. The limestones seem never
to have been worked for any economic purposes, and the
only organtic remains yet found in these beds are some ob-
scure fragments of plants and scales of fishes, which occur in
one of the gray sandstones near the base of the group. At
present these beds are disputed among geologists, as to
whether they belong to the |upper old red sandstones or to
the lower coal series, fossil evidence being wanted to enable
them to be linked to either group. The rocks which form
the eastern part of the county of Dumbarton, belong to the
Carboniferous system. The long ridge of the Kilpatrick
hills bounds the coal-field to the north. This group of trap-
pean heights, which terminate in Dumbarton Castle rock, and
and the heights above Bowling, belong to that chain of trap
hills of volcanic origin which run across Scotland from Ar-
drossan on the south-west to near Montrose on the north-
east. The Kilpatrick division of the range has long been
famous among mineralogists for the fine series of zoolitic
minerals found in veins, &c., of the rocks. In the Bowling
quarry and the rocks of the Long Craigs, very fine specimens
of Prehnite, Thomsonite, Stilbite, Newlandite, and other
minerals of the same group are to be found, and are much
sought after by collectors. The features impressed by these

BOTANY OP THE DISTRICT. 105

trap hills upon the surrounding scenery are often very fine,
and in few localities do they lend such a charm as on the
banks of our own noble river in the neighbourhood of Bow-
ling, where the lofty and well-marked terraces X)i trap set
high upon the hill-side are surrounded at their base by the
natural watchtowers of Dumbarton and Dumbuck, and
other small eminences, the whole imprinting such a charm,
on the landscape that, when once seen in all its beauty, is
not easily thereafter effaced from the memory.

BOTAI^Y OF HELElSrSBUEGH DISTBICT.

The district around Helensburgh, extending from Bowling
Bay to Roseneath, abounds with the commoner plants, in-
cluding some rare species. At Bowling, Turritis glabra
occurs, along with the rare moss, Glyphomitrium Daviesii,
found in 1842 and 1863. On Dumbarton Castle rock the
following plants abound : — Smyrnium olusatrum, Carduus
marianus, Malva sylvestris, M. moschata, Conium niacula-
tum, Carex muricata, Poa maritima. Along the banks of
the Clyde, Mimulus luteus is of frequent occurrence; it is a
native of Chili, and has become naturalised within the last
twenty years in different parts in Scotland. The most char-
acteristic plant in the neighbourhood of Helensburgh, and
on the banks of Gareloch, especially at the upper extremity,
near Fernycarry, is Bartsia (Trixago) viscosa, a rare species
in other parts of the country, but remarkably abundant here.
Senecio saracenicus has been observed at the east end of
Helensburgh, but was probably an escape from a garden.
It has long been known to occupy a spot at Both well Bridge.
Carum verticillatum, a rare plant in England, is common in
the moist pastures and salt marshes from Bowling to Helens-

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'burgh. Tjythrum salicaria grows in profasion in the marshes
in the neighbourhood. Epilobiuni hirsutum is found in the
vicinity of Helensburgh ; Valeriana Pyrenaica on the sides
of a stream in the Roseneath woods ; Trollius Europseus at
Garelochhead ; Convolvulus sepium on the shores of the
loch; Sedum anglicum and S. acre on Dumbuck and in
many other places, and S. Telephium is not unfrequent ;
Saxifraga aizoides beside the upland streams, as at Glen
Frnin ; Solanum Dulcamara in the hedges west of Helens-
burgh ; Linum catharticum in all the fields. Amongst
other species more or less frequent are the following: —

Sonchus oleraceus
Vaccinium Myrtillus

Vitis-lclEea

Oxycoccos

Anemone nemorosa
Corydalis claviculata
Arabis Lirsiita
Cardamine amara
Cochlearia officinalis
Draba verna
Lepidium Siuitliii
Parnassia palustris
Silene maritima
Stellaria Holostea
Hypericum Androssemum

huniifusum

■ perforatum

pulchrum

quadrangulum

Geranium pratense

Oxalis acetosella

Prunus communis (spinosa)

Vicia liirsuta

E,ubus saxatilis

Circasa alpina

■ Lutetiana

Montia f ontana
Chrysospenium alternifolium

oppositifolium

Daucus carota
(Enanthe crocata
Sanicula Europeea
Adoxa moscliatellina
Lonicera Periclymenum
Aster Tripolium
Eupatorium cannabinum

Gentiana campestris
Anchusa sempervirens
Melampyrum pratense
Veronica anagallis

scutellata

Galeopsis Tetrabit

versicolor

Lycopus Europaeus
Scutellaria galericulata
Pinguicula vulgaris
Anagallis arvensis

— tenella

Glaux maritima
Lysimachia nemorum
Plantago maritima
Cbenopodium album
Salsola Kali
Epij)actis latifolia
Gymnadenia conopsea
Habenaria viridis
Orchis latifolia

■ maculata

mascula

Agraphis nutans
Triglochin maritimum

palustre

Zostera marina

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, In Ardenconnel Glen, Hymenophyllum Wilsoni occurs
amongst tlie ferns, the commoner species of which are abun-
dant in the woods and valleys, viz. : —

Asplenium Adiantum nigrum

Trichomanes

- Filix-fcemina

Blechnum boreale
Cystopteris fragilis
Lastrea Filix-mas
— Oroeopteris

Lastrea dilatata
Polypodium vulgara

Phlegopteris

Dryopteris

Polystichum lobatum
Scolopendrium vulgare

The two silver firs in Eoseneath woods are interesting
botanical objects, each measuring about nineteen feet in cir-
cumference. The Robinia Pseudo-acacia thrives indifferently
in most parts of Scotland, but accommodates itself to the
climate of this neighbourhood, where it flowers. The Wel-
lingtonia gigantea (the mammoth tree of California) is also
hardy in this quarter. As a proof of the mildness of the
climate, it may be mentioned that in the memorable frost of
December, 1860 — the most severe experienced in the present
century — the Arancarius, Deodars, the Laurustinus, the
Rhododendrons, and Laurels remained uninjured, although
without protection, when plants of the same description
perished almost universally in the upper parts of the Clyde
valley, and in the interior of the country generally.

NOTES ON MOSSES AND LICHENS, (bY A COREESPONDENT.)

Those who are fond of collecting mosses and lichens will
find not only a wide field in the district, but will, in the
course of their researches, meet with many specimens of a
rare and superior order, such as —

Glyph omitrum Daviesii
Buxbaumia aphylla
Orthotrichum rupestre
Hypnuni stramineum (cum fruit)

Dydymodon flexuosus
Aulacomnium palustre
Spagnum recurvum.

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These are all rare and very interesting species. The
Glyphoniitrium aphylla grows on Trapean rocks. The Bux-
baumia aphylla has never been obtained, we believe, near
Bowling since Lyon's time ; and to our young lady collectors
we may say generally, that they can fill their books, if they
please with

The beautiful feather mosses
The bog mosses
The fork mosses

The hair moss

The shining moss Hookeria

The silky Lubia, &c. , &c.

In " Lichens " there are many species, and possibly you
may find on rocks or stones —

The Romalina scapulorum

The Petsidea PalydactUe

The Gyrophora Probarcida

The Romalina f arinacea, &c. , on trees

The Gladonia f urcata, &c. . on walls.

In regard to interesting ferns, and particularly the Os-

munda Regalis, or royal flowering fern, which has been so

greatly in demand as to occasion its extirpation in many

places along the Clyde coast. If our young friends, however,

will only travel as far as Lochranza, Arran, they will find

plenty of them under the rocks as you enter by the steamer

on the left hand side, from two or three inches to three or

four feet in height. They are also being cultivated in some

of the gardens at Helensburgh in great perfection.

ZOOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT, 109

ZOOLOGY OF THE DISTEICT.

The range of quadrupeds is comparatively limited, em-
bracing only those common throughout the Highlands of
Scotland, and no variety is abundant. The fox, badger, and
polecat — found in considerable numbers some fifty years ago
—are rapidly disappearing through the energetic efforts of
the numerous gamekeepers, who wage a ceaseless war of ex-
termination against them, and what is more to be deplored,
against the rare and beautiful birds of prey, hawks, falcons,
jays, kites and owls, once frequently to be met with. In a
few years these will only have a traditionary existence.
They will be exterminated to make room for larger families
of grouse and partridge.

Of smaller birds there is considerable variety. The woods,
moors, sea shoi-e, marshes, and fresh water lakes, each exhibit
their peculiar tribes in more or less abundance.

Of the owl family three varieties are at least frequently
to be found — the short-eared, the white, and tawny owl.
The first frequents the neighbourhood of Lochlomond. The
other two are seen and heard occasionally in Ardencaple
woods, Rossdhu policies, and amongst the plantations bor-
dering Glen Fruin and Luss Glen.

Of smaller birds the curlew is abundant on the hills in
summer, and in flocks on the sea shore in winter. The
golden plover, the ringed plover, and red shank, also
breed on the hills above Helensburgh and Lochlomond, and
gather in flocks on the sea shore in winter. In time of snow
particularly, great numbers of the golden plover are observed
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tlie sea beach bare. Woodcock and snipe are at times abun-
dant, and are said to breed frequently on the islands or in
tbe neighbourhood of Lochlomond. By the pools on the
Luss and upper reaches of the Fruin, and other tributaries
of Lochlomond, the wild duck, teal, coot, and moor hen
breed. On the Loch, and on the waters of the Frith oppo-
site Cardross, flocks of these ducks congregate in winter, and
along with them specimens of the pochard and golden eye,
and other more rare varieties are frequently found, as also
large groups of Barnacle which arrive later than the others,
and do not leave for their remote breeding places till the
month of April. The island of Inch Moan on Lochlomond, is
a favourite breeding place for a variety of gulls, ducks, and
aquatic birds, and for several months of the year is largely
colonised by them. In and around Helensburgh, black-
birds, thrushes, chaffinches, robins, and various tits are very
common, and wherever there is a house with empty chim-
neys or crevices in the eaves the starling is certain to take
up his abode and discourse noisily from the roof. In the
woods near Bannachra and on Garelochside, there are a good
many bullfinches still exist. They are, however, kept down
by prejudice of gardeners against them, taking the foim of
fire-arms whenever opportunity occurs. The goldfinch — that
most beautiful of our songsters, we have frequently seen on
Garelochside, in the neighbourhood of Blairvadick. They
are also met with in Camis-Eskan woods. The grey linnet,
sisken, redpole, wagtail, and chaffinch, are distributed through
the parishes of Row and Luss and breed in various places.

There is a heronry in Roseneath woods, and one or two
in Lochlomond; and in Ardencaple woods and Roseneath
are populous rookeries.

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mentioned, but these the ornithologist will find for himself;
and it is probable that many summer and winter varieties of
winged visitors from foreign countries might be discovered
by the keen eye of a naturalist in pursuit of his favourite
study.

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While the district affords a wide field for the research of
the botanist and the geologist, there is a class of our readers
who seek recreation in other pastimes, and it is only fitting
that a word or two should be devoted to their interests.

CRICKET.

Some years since by the munificence of Sir James Col-
quhoun and several gentlemen resident in Helensburgh,
several acres of ground were set apart in the east end of
Helensburgh as play-ground. A charter to the land was
granted to the magistrates, and it has been enclosed and laid
off for cricket, quoits, and kindred games. It is much fre-
quented in the summer season. It is open to all without
charge, and the habitual players have formed various clubs,
admission to any of which can be obtained on the easiest
terms. We have as yet no distinguished cricketers, the game
having been but recently introduced ; but the enthusiasm
and zeal with which it is followed encourages a hope that
a year or two hence some of the players will be able to dis-
tinguish themselves in friendly competition with older clubs.

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BOWLS.

The want of a good bowling-green was long a drawback to
the cultivation of social and friendly intercourse amongst the
gentlemen of the neighbourhood, which only the public news-
room partially prevented total extinction of. By the inde-
fatigable efforts of ex-Provost Drysdale and a few others a
grant of land was obtained, and at a very great expense three
admirable greens were formed. They are under the manage-
ment of a club formed of subscribers. The greens are situated
adjacent to the Luss Road, on the rising ground, and sur-
rounded by shrubbery, form a favourite promenade in the
summer season. To the attraction of the game, bands of in-
strumental music are sometimes added, when the grounds
are frequented by a very animated and gay assemblage of the
fair sex.

CURLING.

Nor do the votaries of the " roaring game " lack a field for
their wintry sport. There has been a curlers' club, includ-
ing several crack players, in existence for many years. In
very hard frost the mill-dams and Lochlomond itself are in
requisition for a rink or two, but the club posseses a good
pond adjacent to the public park, which a night's frost gene-
rally suffices to produce sufficient surface of ice on to afford
a game. For several weeks at a time during winter there is
often continuous playing on it. An attempt has been made
to secure a suitable spot for a larger sheet of ice for skaters
which we hope will prove successful.

SHOOTING.

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consequently it is abundant. The lower grounds contain
hares, pheasant, and partridge ; grouse and black game on
the hills, and roe-deer in the woods are common. The
shootings are to some extent let in the neighbourhood, but
most of the proprietors reserve them in their own hands.
There is a class of sportsmen, however, who devote their at-
tention to the wild-duck and sea-fowl shooting, for which
there is a fair field in the neighbourhood. At the approach
of winter, flocks of golden plover, {Charadrius pluvialis,) red-
shank, peewit, sand-piper, curlew, [Numenius arquata,) and
other birds of the class of waders, leave the hills and collect
on the sands about Ardmore and Cardross. Later, the
mallard duck, (Anas boschas,) widgeon, [Mareca penelope,)
and teal appear in order, and occasional flocks of barnacle, or
brent geese, from their Norwegian homes, alight upon the
shores. The ducks and geese feed chiefly during day on the
marine grasses with which the long sandbanks are clad, and
at night in the adjacent fields. There is also another species
of duck, of which vast flocks sometimes appear in very in-
tense frost, the Harelda glacialis, black on the back or cho-
colate-coloured, and the rest of a dusky white or gray. It
appears, however, to feed a good deal on fish, and is not
esteemed of much culinary value, although probably aff'ord-
ing in its pursuit as much sport as the other varieties.
Wild geese used to visit the district, but of late years very
few of them have been seen. Indeed, within the last twenty
or thirty years, there has been a rapid and very decided
diminution of the numbers of wild fowls on these shores;
and many who earned a comfortable livelihood by shooting
them during winter have been obliged to give up their calling.
Various causes may contribute to this, but chiefly, we sus-
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turbance to whicli the birds are subjected on their feeding
grounds, so that they no longer lead that life of seclusion
and quiet here which in other less busy regions it is possible
they may enjoy. Still, wild-duck shooting is a common and
popular pursuit in the winter months, on this part of the
river and amongst its bays. There are numerous parties
who earn a livelihood by it. We have heard of one man
killing in the course of a winter, ducks to the value of £80 ;
and not uncommonly the proceeds of a season amount to
more than half that sum. It is by no means an easy task
to obtain a shot at a flight of ducks, and requires a more
thorough knowledge of the habits of this wary bird than
seems at first necessary. The sportsman must make up his
mind to fatigue, cold, and repeated disappointment if he
would earn success. There are two methods of following
them generally employed, which we will attempt to describe.
The first is by sailing boat. A bright day with a smart
breeze blowing is preferred. Armed with guns of larger
calibre than are generally used on the moor, and using No.
1 shot, or B. B., the sportsman endeavours to manage his
boat so as to keep the sun betwixt him and the birds. The
lights thus prevents his approach being noticed so early as
it would be were it behind him, and a sailing craft glides
much more noiselessly and rapidly down upon the object
than under oars. If he can get within ninety yards of the
flock, success is almost certain. A few outer birds rise
first, the others are alarmed and swim rapidly off", turning
their heads every way, apparently planning the best mode
of escape from danger ; suddenly a rustle of a multitude of
wings, a rush of water, and the whole are under flight. Now
is the moment. Fairly risen from the water, with out-
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as their distance may admit, and a successful shot shows
half a dozen of them dropping with a helpless flap into their
native element. The slain are immediately picked up and
chase given to those only wounded, who oftentimes are diffi-
cult to recover, and afford a long hunt before all are cap-
tured. If not carefully watched from the very first, they
disperse about by swimming and diving in various directions,
and the pursuit soon becomes utterly hopeless. Few things
require more careful watching than a wounded duck in the
water.

The other, and perhaps more successful, mode of duck-
shooting is followed by moonlight, at low tide, upon those
banks where the birds feed. When the moon is full, or
nearly so, with a gray sky overheard the sport may be pur-
sued with some prospect of success, varying, of course, ac-
cording to the knowledge and practice of the shooter. A
blue sky is quite unsuitable, as, however near the birds may
be, you cannot see them with the distinctness necessary to a
fair shot. The mode of proceeding is. thus: — On arriving
at the bank, the shooter selects a stone in a likely spot — the
drier the more comfortable — squats down upon it, and in-
vokes patience to his aid. If the ducks are in migratory
mood — ^which they are not always — ^his reverie will be soon
broken, and his congealing blood startled into circulation by
the whistling of the teal, or the melodious quack of the mal-
lard approaching him. Cocking his gun, and rapidly
scanning the horizon, his eye catches sight of the birds. If
they are only within doubtful range, an old hand will let
them pass without risking a shot, knowing that in all pro-
bability, they may return again more closely to him. If k
fair shot offers, the birds are allowed to pass beyond the
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the chances against his killing any of them, no matter how
near, are twenty to one. Once past, however, he selects a
bird from the centre of the group, and fires. If they are
anything compact, three, four, or five birds may fall. Now
is the value of a good dog known. If the shooter rises to
collect his birds, he will get the slain, but may have a weary
and difficult chase after the wounded, and probably lose
some of them in the dark. What is perhaps worse, the
time he is dancing about he is scaring other fliglits of birds,
and losing chances he may never again have. The rule
seems to be, never to let him rise from his seat if he can
avoid it, and the dog saves any necessity for running^after
wounded birds; but if he have none, let him regain his post
as soon as possible. If the night is favourable, the sport
may be pursued as long as the shooter can endure the cold
and the tide admits. When once the water flows to his
knees it is time for him, at all hazards, to take himself ofi",
and seek the shortest road to land. This sport is chiefly fol-
lowed at Cardross and the bays at Hill Ardmore.

ANGLING.

We have already alluded to the deep sea fishing of the
neighbourhood. It of course takes precedence, being fol-
lowed not only as a recreation, but as a business by a con-
siderable number of the population. To many anglers sea-
fishing is the only form of angling they are devoted to or
desire to follow ; and sea-fishing, although [despised by
votaries of the higher branches of the sport, is by no means
a contemptible amusement. Boats and lines are easily pro-
curable ; for bait the log worm, or hairy worm found in the
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great secret of success rests not on the skill of the fishers so
much as in a knowledge of the haunts of the fish at particular
stages of the tide and in particular seasons. The only advice
we can give on this head is, get a boatman who is practically
a fisherman, or take one acquainted with the ground with
you. Sea fish of all kinds have of late years been uncertain
in their supply. There is neither the quantity nor varieties
found that used to exist on these shores. To trawling on the
banks during the spawning season, which has of late been
greatly on the increase, has been generally attributed the
extinction and disappearance of fish. But of cod, whiting,
flounder, and lythe there is a fair supply; and very abun-
dant during the spring and autumn months, particularly
among shallow currents of the loch, is the sethe, a coarse-
grained greenish-complexioned fish. Of these, great quan-
tities are caught in the bays and about the currents of Rose-
neath Ferry, in the evenings and mornings, with a bit of
white feather dressed on a hook after the similitude of a fly.
A bunch of hazel rods, numbering from ten to twenty, are
projected from the stern of a small coble; beside them sits
the fisher, while another rows the boat, over such ground as
sport is expected from. The fish play a good deal on the
surface, and thus serve to guide the sportsmen to the proper
ground. The boat has thus the appearance of an animated
spider, of unusual dimensions, traversing the water in eccen-
tric courses. The fish are dragged in sans ceremonie as soon
as possible when hooked — the only interest in the proceeding
arises apparently from the quantity caught. They are gene-
rally about the size of small herrings, though much larger
specimens, sometimes weighing eight or nine pounds, are often
killed ; but these patriarchs are seldom tricked by a feather —
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passes under tlie name of stenlock, large lythe and cod are
taken in considerable quantities hj trolling with the sea-
worm, (Phyllodoce laminosa.) These long unsightly worms
are strung on a strong gut tackle, armed with three or four
Limerick hooks, and trolled from a boat with a short line of
fifteen or twenty feet. A better plan, however, is to moor
the boat in the strong run of some current, where the
water is not more than twelve feet deep, above such a tangled
bed as these fish haunt, and allow the bait to play under
the surface, by dipping the point of the rod two feet or so.
Large quantities are sometimes then taken, particularly
in the morning or evening, and we can assure you it is
no mean sport to kill a ten or twelve pound lythe or cod
with the rod in a strong current. The former fish especi-
ally, fights hard and gives great play at times. During
the greater part of the year there is a considerable sprink-
ling of sea-trout to be found all along the shores of the loch-
In some places they may be found with more certainty than
at others, but in general they haunt the creeks and shore
currents throughout it. They are never found in deep water
but seem to prefer it of a range from two to seven or eight
feet. Probably the small streams and springs that abound
on the margin of the loch, conveying food to them, lead
them to haunt the shallows chiefly. In the early part
of the season, during February and March, they are often
causht on shore -lines baited with the common earth-worm, or
or sand-worm, for then the trout, recently descended from
the fresh water after spawning, enjoys a voracious appetite,
and refuses almost nothing at all edible. Later in the
season they become more fastidious in their choice of food,
aud refuse such vulgar fare. The favourite, and, indeed,
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trolling from a boat. The baits used are tbe sand-eel, min-
now, and sprat. Indeed, any kind of small fish, if at all
clear in the colours is suitable. When there is a stiif breeze,
from fifteen to twenty yards of line is sufficient ; but if the
day be quiet, double this quantity is not too much ; the fur-
ther you are from your bait the more chance of success. A
stiffish rod and plenty of line are necessary, as the sea-trout,
if anything large, fights fiercely after being hooked. In
general it is a bad plan to land from the boat after hooking
a fish, as you are almost sure to lose him amongst the tangle
in shallow water; keep him rather in deep water, if pos-
sible, and be sure to have a landing-net or gaff with you;
either of these is absolutely indispensable. The trout caught
in the loch, ranges from half a pound to six pounds, and
sometimes heavier. On a good day from half-a-dozen are
sometimes taken by a single rod; at other times the tempei-,
patience, and resources of Piscator may be severely put to a
test by not a single bite rewarding his diligence. It is said
that the modern Yankee invention, the spoon bait, has
proved very • attractive during the past season or two. One
or two Helensburgh anglers are reported to have done great
execution with it. but we cannot personally vouch for its
effi.ciency, never having tried it, and would be rather indis-
posed to forsake the minnow for any modern invention. If
if you wish to enjoy a day's sport, your best way is to en-
gage some one of the regular fishermen of the loch, to all
of whom the best spots are known, and on whose candour you
can safely rely. The sea-trout, notwithstanding the doubts
vvdiich have been expressed on the subject, will also rise at
a (iy on salt water. Whether they accept it as a fiy or some
marine bait we cannot determine, but can vouch to their
being frequently taken by a large iiy of gaudy complexion.

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Almost all the streams and brooks in the neighbourhood
contain trout. As the streams are small, however, their
inhabitants seldom attain a respectable size, and only in the
larger burns are worth the angler's attention. Beginning
with fresh-water fishing —

Lochlomond commands our first notice. It is easily ac-
cessible from Helensburgh, and contains not only plenty of
fish, but a great variety of them, Salmon, sea-trout, brown
trout, perch, roach, pike, and a peculiar fish called powan,
a species of herring, abound in its waters. The fishing is
held by a Club, who pay a sum yearly to Sir James Colqu-
houn, who bought up the salmon fishings on the rivers
Leven and Clyde, in order to allow free access of these fish
to the loch. The right to angle on the loch and its tributaries
is obtained by purchase of annual tickets, but we believe
there is no restriction as regards the loch itself There
are plenty of experienced boatmen to be had at Luss well
acquainted with the best parts of the loch, though not to be
indiscriminately recommended as fishermen, as any angler
may experimentally satisfy himself Although the fish are
abundant, the loch, from its extent and variety of ground
feeding, affords uncertain sport. Tt is the fairest and most
fickle of all Scotch lakes. Sometimes a very unpromising
day is crowned with success; at other times a succession of
promising days to the angler's eye end in weariness and vexa-
tion. The months of April, May, and latter part of August
and September are reckoned best. The flies used are infinite
in variety, but the experienced on this lake seem to restrict
themselves to three or four, regulating the size according to
the state of the weather, &c.

1. Green Drake. — Body yellow mohair, ribbed with tinsel ; legs
red, or ginger hackle ; wdng mottled mallard or teal.

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2. Black Palmer. — Ribbed with silver twist on body of ostrich
feather ; tail yellow tilk ; wing brown turkey feather.

3. Stone Fly. — Body mixed with yellow and brown mohair, yel-
low towards the tail; wings, dark mottled feather of teal drake,
mixed with blue jay feather.

4. M'Niven's Favourite. — Boddy reddish purple or mauve mohair,
ribbed with white tinsel, red or black hackle, and light turkey
feather wings.

5. Smith'' s Fly. — Body of alternate dark -blue, red and yellow
mohair, yellow towards the tail, black hackle ; wings, teal drake or
pheasant's tail.

6. Darh Fly. — Body black silk, ribbed with tinsel, and over with
black hackle ; wing, light turkey cock ; tail, strand of speckled
feathers.

7. Broion Fly. — Body fiery brown mohair and red hackle; wing,
teal drake, speckled. This is often a deadly fly,

8. Green body of pigs wool and teal drake wing, and occasionally
a perfectly white fly is found captivating.

These should be dressed on pretty large hooks. There are
other popular flies used. An acquaintance with the loch will
soon put the angler in possession of their qualities and ap-
pearance.

It has been matter of surprise that the Club have not in-
troduced char and greyling into the loch ; they could easily
be imported and would thrive rapidly in it. Experiments
aie now being made by Sir James Colquhoun, Bart., on a
stream near Rossdhu policies, in the artificial propagation of
salmon, the success of which is hopefully and earnestly
looked forward to by many anglers.

The perch and pike fishing of the loch are very good, and
not so precarious as the trout. Since the removal of the
salmon nets, perch have increased very much, and may be
found throughout almost all its waters.

The pike fishing is best along the south shore, from the
termination of Eossdhu policies down to Belleretira. About
the mouth of the river Fruin, and where this stream, at a
former period, flowed into the loch, are several good and

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favourite haunts of this tyrant of the lake. In the reedy
channels behind the islands, near Luss shore, they are also
found; but towards the head of the loch they are more abun-
dant than at any other part. They are taken with spoon
bait, par-tail, and minnow, but the best bait of all is a small
silvery roach. An epicurean pike will dash at this when he
spurns every other delicacy of the season. Pike are in season
in the loch from August till January. In spring they are
not worth taking. The powan was long considered peculiar to
to Lochlomond, but there are other Highland lochs, chiefly
in proximity to the sea, where it is found. It has many points
of resemblance in common with the herring, and, indeed, as
Lochlomond may have been subject to the same tidal in-
fluence as the Clyde, at one period of its history, there is
every reason to assume that the powan is the herring accli-
matised to fresh water. Herring still ascend the Clyde
occasionally, as far as Dumbarton Rock : we have seen them
even higher. A very slight change of level, and that such
change has taken place seems confirmed by traces of a
former sea-margin along the shore of the Clyde, would carry
flood tide up to Lochlomond, and thus introduce sea-fish
into it. The powan, like the herring, seems to feed chiefly
on minute larvse or zoophytes. It is not, or but rarely,
taken with the rod, though formerly largely fished with the
net. When well cooked, it is not a contemptible fish, and
has often, in former times, passed current and probably still
graces the Cockney tourist's breakfast table as Lochlomond
trout. A good many salmon are found in the Loch from
May onwards, but they are as a rule shy. To ensure suc-
cess a strong breeze of south-west wind is necessary, and a
knowledge of their favourite haunts. The flies used for sea
trout are in general suitable.

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If you should be unfortunate enough, as often happens to
the angler, to visit the loch on a day unsuitable for trout
fishing, the next best thing to be done is to devote your
attention to perch — a fair basket of these may be taken in
ordinary circumstances with the small red worm or minnow,
by fishing either from the shore or a boat. If you are conver-
sant with the haunts of the fish, wherever the water is toler-
ably deep, and the bottom weedy, you may almost calculate
with certainty on finding perch, and if you find one, remem-
ber the other branches of the family are not far distant.
Perch fishing is best in morning and evening, but they may
be taken at any period of the day. They are not fastidious.

The tributaries of the loch are the End rick, Falloch, Luss,
Douglas, and Glen Fruin waters. The Endrick is the largest
of these. It is easily accessible by railway, but, save late in
the season, when the sea-trout ascend it, is almost worthless
as a fishing stream. It has a traditionary excellence, but
the trout seem to have been much thinned by night-
poaching and netting. The only really good part of the
stream is from Fintry to Balfron. Of the other streams,
the Falloch is the best, and Luss Water next in order.
The native trout in these streams are abundant, but not
large. In autumn, considerable numbers of sea trout are
found in them. The flies used for river-trout are chiefly
dark, with a lightish wing of small size ; for sea-trout,
yellow or red on No. 4 or 5 hook. Bait-fishing is pro-
hibited by the rules of the Club, though apparently without
any very good reason, as the verdict of most of the angling
patriarchs frequenting these streams is, that the fish do not
readily take the bait, save in very heavy floods. The chief
reason given against it is the facility it afibrds to dishonest
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huddled together in the pools. Otherwise it seems unobjec-
tionable.

All these streams and their tributaries, which generally
abound in small trout, may be easily reached in an hour or
two by rail or steamer, and most of them are within easy
ing range.

There is also a small loch above Kahane, on the Gareloch,
in which perch are very abundant.

These embrace the chief fishing localities in the district,
and it will be hard if some of them do not yield to the visi-
tor a fair amount of sport. If in haunting the loch's reedy
shores, or the dancing, hurrying streams of the brook, and
listening to their melody, and breathing the pure exhilarat-
ing mountain air, you should be content even with a light
pannier if you secure a share of the good gifts old Izaak en-
dows angling with : — " Indeed, my friend, you will find
angling to be like the virtue of humility, which has a
calmness of spirit and a world of other blessings attending
upon it."

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THE COMET. THE FIRST STEAM BOAT IN BRITAIN. I8II

HENRY BELL. 125

HENRY BELL.

It seems to be only a fitting appendix to a Guide Book to
Helensburgh to add a notice of one whose labours had given
it much of the eminence it enjoys. Helensburgh and Henry
Bell will ever be associated in the history of the industrial
commerce of our land. It was not his birth place, but it
was the field of his labours and the scene of his triumphs ;
and the " mad innkeeper," as those who failed to understand
him, called him, has stamped his name indelibly on the
place. Henry Bell was born at Torphichen, in the neigh-
bourhood of Linlithgow, in the year 1767, of humble
parentage. He was first apprenticed to a stone mason. We
afterwards find him working as a millwright, and after a
short interval acquiring a measure of engineering knowledge
with Mr. Inglis, at Bellshill, and more fully, when he was
about 22 or 23 years of age, with the celebrated Sir John
Bennie, of London. He never, however, obtained a thorough
knowledge of mechanical science, and all through his subse-
quent life com^plained of the disadvantage this defect placed
him under. After leaving London, where his stay was com-
paratively short, he entered into business in Glasgow with a
Mr. Paterson, under the firm of Bell and Paterson, builders,
and undertook and successfully completed several large and
very important contracts. During this period his fertile mind
seems to have run in engineering enterprises and projects.

About the end of last or beginning of the present century
his thoughts were directed to the propulsion of vessels by
steam. The subject was not entirely a new one, for it had
received the attention of other scientific men, and various
experiments had been made, all demonstrating its feasibility.
But it had been abandoned by the earliest pioneers, and was
even denounced by Watt and other eminent engineers as
impracticable to any extent, when Bell took it up. In 1803,
we find him bringing a scheme for steam navigation under
notice of the Board of Admiralty, but with that wisdom and
foresight which have eminently characterised this depart-
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visionary. Indeed, it was twenty years later before the
Government was educated into the belief that steam
navigation was practicable, or if practicable, a prudent
thing for a constitutional Government to recognise. Bell's
plans, were, however, favourably received by the American
Government, who exhibited an interest in them, as they have
always done in projects affecting the commercial advantages
of the country, and they availed themselves to some extent
of his ideas. Hence we find steam navigation of the Ameri-
can rivers almost cotemporaneous with our own.

About 1806, Bell settled at Helensburgh, where he built
the Baths — now Queen's Hotel — to which numerous visitors
were attracted by the conveniences it offered them, then rare
at watering places, and by the celebrity of the host, whose
name was already become a household word. Here he
planned the first Clyde steamer, through many perplexities
and anxieties, and had her built by Mr. John Wood, of
Port-Glasgow, from whose dock the Comet was launched in
in 1812. Here culminated the thoughts and energies of
years, the skill and patience and perseverance and triumphs
over difficulties, which with his imperfect engineering skill
might have been held insurmountable.

At this late date, Avith an advanced mechanical skill, the
difficulties of Henry Bell can hardly be understood or appre-
ciated in the construction of this little pioneer of commerce
and civilisation, which was mis-named the Comet, for its
course has been steady and onward since. Coiipled with
mechanical difficulties, and greatly increasing them were the
limited resources of Bell, and a lack of skilled labour. The
same battle which Palisy and Watt, and a host of others
had to fight for years, encountered him at every step. Often
times at his wit's end for want of funds, and as often unex-
pectedly obtaining fresh supplies. Trying the patience and
temper of his faithful and cheerful good wife oftentimes,
and getting hold of her little stores, hoarded past to meet the
the current expenses of the hotel, which were swept into the
unsatisfying maw of the boat, to her dismay and chagrin, and
almost wearying the good nature of friends willing to aid, —
at length the gaol was reached, and Henry Bell was famous.

HENRY BELL. 127

The first Comet was about 40 feet long. Her paddles were
about 18 inches broad by 12 deep, amd her tall funnel,
which also did duty for a mast, ran up from the deck at an
angle for some distance before ascending. Her engines
were three horse-power. For a time she plied between
Glasgow and Greenock, accomplishing the distance in about
four hours when the tide was favourable. The interest she
created was intense. Great crowds of people lined the shores
from the Broomielaw downwards to witness her departure
and arrival, but of the hundreds of wonder seekers, few
recognised in her the advent of a revolution in the maratime
enterprise of the world. Few comparatively even believed
in the success of the little vessel itself, or regarded it with
other feelings than they would have experienced had any
marine monster made its appearance in the river. People
were afraid of entering it, and regarded it with a degree
of superstition and terror, and generally with aversion. In
a foot note to Mr. Smile's. Life of Boulton and Watt, the fol-
lowing illustrative anecdote is given : —

" The masters of small sailing crafts regarded the Comet with ap-
prehension and dismay. The old Highland gabbert men were espe-
cially hostile, denouncing the new vessel als being impelled by the
" teevil's wun'." The story is told of the steamer one day coming
up with a fly boat, tacking against the tide, when the crew began to
jeer the skipper of the fly, calling upon him to come along with his
lazy craft. "Get out o' ma sicht," he cried in reply; "I'm just
gaun as it pleases the breath o' the Almichty, an I'll neer fash ma
thoom how fast ye gang wi' your blasted reek."

Success, though delayed, did come. The Comet was after-
wards lengthened 20 feet, and her engine power increased,
and the British public began to appreciate the invention and
avail themselves of it. The trips of the Comet were extended
to Lochfine, and intermediate ports. In Lochfine, somewhere
about Lochgilphead, the first Comet was wrecked. She was
succeeded by another larger steamer of the same name, also
wrecked off Gourock; but by this time the steam navigation
of the Clyde was an accomplished fact. The reward of the
application of skill and industry was not to Bell, however,
who lay sufi'ering under ill health, and struggling with
crippled resources, died comparatively poor, at the Baths
Hotel, in 1830.

128 HELENSBURGH GUIDE.

In person, Mr Bell was about middle size, a stout-built,
fresh-complexioned man, hearty and genial in his manner.
His features were regular and expressive, impressing a
stranger at a glance with a good opinion of him as a shrewd,
pawky Scot, an impression which ten minutes' conversation
stamped as sound. His general knowledge was extensive, and
he had a peculiar aptitude for seizing the salient points of any
new invention, and making himself master of the subject. He
was a great talker, when excited by any favourite hobby, and
nothing delighted him more than an intelligent listener, to
whom he would descant all night on any of his multifarious
plans and schemes. There were always some leading projects
in view. The construction of a canal betwixt east and west
Tarbet, in Lochfine, was a favourite one. He had also a scheme
for the partial drainage of Lochlomond, and reclaimation of the
land, about which he had an extensive correspondence with the
Duke of Montrose, who did not receive it favourably. The in-
troduction of water to Helensburgh from Glenfruin, he had
also in view. The reclaimation of waste lands in Scotland, and
even the Suez Canal, he discussed and urged its practicability
despite the opinion of many eminent engineers. Of all his
plans he was exceedingly sanguine, neither the indifference of
others, the want of resources, partial failure, or any of the
thousand embarassments that haunt projectors, daunted him.
Whatever the failure or disappointment met, he was always
hopeful of ultimate success. With a large measure of Watt's
inventive faculty he possessed in a good degree the energy and
knowledge of men which Watt's partner, Boulton, enjoyed. To
the many doubts and disbelief of scientific and unscientific men,
that steam vessels would never accomplish much. Bell's reply
was always, "they will yet traverse the ocean," and his pro-
phesy now being fulfilled, living men who heard it can verify.

The life of Bell is a study, and his energy, zeal and courage
a model for young men of to-day.

Note. — The crew of the original Comet consisted of WilHam
M'Kenzie, sometime teacher in Helensburgh afterwards, Robert
Bain, master, an engineer, a pilot, and a fireman. The fare from
Glasgow to Greenock was four shillings and three shilHngs, for first
and second cabin, and it sailed from each port three times a week.

BATTRUM'S

GUIDE AND DIRECTORY

TO

HELENSBURGH AND NEIGHBOURHOOD.

SEVENTH EDITION

HELENSBUReH !

Printed and Published at 50 & 52 East Peinces Street;

1875.

PREFACE.

In issuing the seventh edition of the Helensburgh
Directory, the publisher tenders his sincere thanks for
the generous support hitherto accorded the publication ;
and as every effort has been made to make the Directory
worthy of the public, he trusts that it will be found to
merit a similar reception.

Although not a perfectly got up work, still it is hoped
that, as a book of reference, it will be found very useful.
This year it is larger, and contains more names, and
bodies of societies than any formerly published.

The map this year has been improved, showing the
new feus, houses, and streets that have been made,

August 20th, 1875.

NAMSlS OF THE NEW POLICE COMMISSIONERS.

Alexander Breingan.

Andrew Provan.

Thomas Steven, Chief M agist

Einlay Capapbell,

"William Bryson.

J. W, M'Culloch, Junr. Mag.

John Cramb.

Donald Murray.

John Dmgwall.

John Stuart, Junr. Mag,

R. S. M'Fariane.

Martin M'Kay,

CONTENTS OF DIRECTORY.

!hele:n'sburgh street directory - . . . g

HELENSBURGH GENERAL DIRECTORY - - - 45

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES . . . . gS

PROFESSIONS AND TRADES -.--.. gg

ROYAL FAMILY - - - ^ ..... HO
PUBLIC BODIES, AND TRADES, &c :— .

MAGISTRATES, after preface, and - - . . - 112

HAftBOUR TRUSTEES - - - - . . . - 112

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE - . • -^ - - .112

SCHOOL BOARD . 112

PAROCHIAL BOARB and PRISOif - - . . .113

CLERGY - - . - . - . = - . 113

FAST DAYS AISTD FAIRS . - - - - - - 113

REGISTRAR FOR THE PARISH - - - - - .113

BANKS 113

CEMETERY COMPANY - . - - - - . - H4

GAS LIGHT COMPANY - . - - . . . - 114

INSURANCE AGENTS - - - - - - . -114

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY . - - i - . .114

SUBSCRIPTION READING ROOM . - . - . -114

HELENSBURGH SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY .... 114

CURLING AND BOWLING CLUBS - - - - - - 115

COLPORTEUR COMMITTEE - . . - - . .115

HELENSBURGH TOWN MISSION . . - . - - 115

HELENSBURGH and OARELOCH BUILDING SOCIETY - - 115

BIBLE SOCIETY - - - - 115

HELENSBURGH SABBATH SCHOOL UMION . - - . 116

MASONIC LODGE - 117

ODDFELLOWS 117

VOLUNTEERS - . . . . 117

HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY HO

POST OFFICE lis

CAB FARES 119

POPULATION ....*..-. i 119

ROW DIRECTORY . : . . . , . 119

SHANDON DIRECTORY ....... 124

GARELOCH-HEAD DIRECTORY . . . . . 124

BOSENEATH DIRECTORY .... 130

COVE AND KILCREGGAN DIRECTORY : . . . 13S

GLEN FRUIN DIRECTORY 137

LUSS DIRECTORY ...,,,. 13»

CARDROSS DIRECTORY .... 138

ADVERTISMENTS .,....,. i

NAMES OF STREETS IN
A.bercromby Street

Adelaide Street

Alma Crescent

Argyle Street, east

Argyle Street, west

Campbell Street

Charlotte Street

Clyde Street, east

Clyde Street, west

Colquhoun Square

Colquhoun Street

George Street

Glasgow Street

Glenfinlas Street

Grant Street

Granville Street

Hanover Street

Havelock Street

Henry Bell Street

James Street

Jolin Street

King's Crescent

HELENSBURGH,

King Street, east

King Street, west
Lomond Street
Luss Road
Maitland Street
Milligs Street, east
Milligs Street, west
Montrose, Street, east
Montrose Street, west
NortK King, street
Nortli Sutherland Street
Princes Street, east
Princes Street, west
Queen Street
Sinclair Street
South King Street
Stafford Street
Suffolk Street
Sutherland Street
Sutherland Crescent, Tip.
Sutherland Crescent, Lo.
William Street

HELENSBUKGH STREET DIEEGTOET.

ABERCROMBY STREET.

"Wemyss, E-obert, Bennochy
Mitcliell, Mrs, Locksley
Napier, James A,, Omaha.
Orr, William, Ardenlade
"Wemyss, Miss
Easton, Mr
new houses

ADELAIDE STREET.

1 Stewart, Adam, labourer

2 Fairman, J. A,, Elmbank House
6 Baylis, Mrs^, GifFnock Cottage

8 Stewart, Mrs, East Thorn

9 Telfer, James, gardener

9 Ross, David, coachman to Miss Allan

10 Elizabeth Borland, Janelee Cottage,

11 Sharp^ James, Ardenclutha

12 Hunter, John, house-agent, Parklee Cottage
14 Lang, Mrs, Duart Cottage

16 Galloway, George, seed merchant, Galloway Cottage

18 Maclde, William, Park View Cottage

20 Thomson, Mrs, Glenorchy Villa

22 Ogston, Mrs, Glenorchy Villa

ALMA CRESCENT.
Muir, Robert, Hazelwood
Topping, William, Marion Villa
Watt, Mrs, Taybank
Burr, Thomas, gardener
Lightbody, Thomas, Skerryvore
Barron, Alexander_, Gowanlea
Gemmill, William M., Ruhe

10 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

ASGYLE STREET, EAST

3 Colquhoun, AiidrBW S. D., d ry Salter, Rossmount
5 Ritchie, Miss Rosemount Cottags

8 M'Farlane, Miss, Dailnabruich Cottage

10 Siiiith, David, plumber

12 Robb, llamiltoii, mason

16 Eraser, John, teacher, Seaview Place

18 Stewart, Captain William, Seaview Placa

29 Holdsworth, John, Clifton. Cottage

30 Auld, Mrs, Glenlea

33 Kay, Thomas, joiner, Chapelfield House

35 M'Lellan, Miss, East Woodend House

37 Donald, W. Macalister, J. P.,of Lyleston, Hawthorn Ban!

4G Alexander, Miss, Milligs Cottage

ar:.yl3 street, west..

4 Sloan, Miss, Craigie Lea

8 Bitty, Mrs Ptichard, Laurel Bank

10 Dickie, Hugh, teacher

11 Campbell, Mrs Archibald, lillybank

12 Swan, Mrs, Oak bank

14 Bayly, Miss, Woodend Cottage

16 TurnbuU, Duncan, merchant, Woodville

18 Doddrel, D. ^J\, Beech wood Yilla

Stables and Coachhouse— David Black, cab hirer

19 Hillen^ Miss, dressmaker

20 Stewart, Kdward, VVestwood Villa
22 Roberts, William B., Woudlee

24 M'Callum, Donald, drajjcr, Fairbank

25 White, John J., dentist, Woodbauk
27 Allan, Mrs, The Lodge

29 Hutchison, Miss, Sunnybrae

29 Taylor, Miss, Sunnybrae,

29 Malcolm, Mrs, Sunnybrae

33 Stewart, Mr^s^ Greenoak

BSLLSTREEr.
1 Lennox, Peter, Oakfield
% Thomsonj Alexander George, I, A* civil enginesr

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY, 11

Montgomery, William, farmer, Laigh Stuck
M'Lachlan, William, farmer, High Stuck

campsell:street.

1 Geramell, Mrs, Bellevue House

7 Lennan, Peter, gardener to Miss Foot

8 Wallace, Matthew, coal dealer, Eosebank Terrace

10 Tciylor, William M., Rosebank Terrace

11 Go\v, Mrs, Ciarkfield House

12 Phillips James, drawing-master, Posebank Cottage

13 Millar, Miss, Cl-arkfield House

14 Allan, Miss, Rosevale Cottage

15 M'Nab, Mrs, Greenbank

17 M'Phun, W. P., bookseller and publisher, Maryfi3ld

19 Cowan, Miss, Garnet Bank

20 Buchanan, Miss, Burnside House

21 Watt, Miss, Hopetonn Park

22 Shanks, Miss, Burnside House

24 Arthur, Pev John, Burnside Cottage

26 Oswald, Andrew, Glannan Bank

28 M'Lachlan, Mrs Walter, Glenmore
M'Micking, Thomas, J. P., Bunibrae
Campbell, Hugh, gardener to T. M'Micking

CEMETERY ROAD.

Helensburgh Cemetery — George Combs^ gardener

Helensburgh Hospital

M'Auslane, James, farmer, Kirkmichael

CHARLOTTE STREET.

2 Bakehouse— John M'Nicol,
4 M'Dougall, Miss

4 Be war, Peter, mate
4 M'Nicol, John, baker

6 Smith, Mrs

7 Bain, David, weaver

8 Whittle, Mrs

10 Traill, Anthony, mason
X2 Brown, Barbara

J^ HfELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTOBT.

12 Finlay, Archibald, seaman

13 Wilson, William, mason

14 M'^Farlane, Malcolm, shoemaker
16 Sutlieiiand, John, shoemaker

16 Wilson, Gilbert, painter

15 Park Free Church— Rev. W, H. Carslaw, M,A.

1 7 Carslaw, Eev. William Henderson, Park Free Manse

18 Ferguson^ Thomas, slater

19 M'Farlane, Kobevt, Rowanbrae

21 Christie, Mrs Thomas, Janeville Lodge

22 Stuart, John, Thistle Bank

23 Spence, William, architect, Ardlui

25 Nicol, Miss, Kintyre Villa — Ladies' Boarding School

30 Marshall, Robert, Birkfell

32 Cuthbertson, John, Cranley Lodge

34 Barton, William, Devaar Lodge

36 Proudfood, Miss, Egremount House

38 Lindsay, Rev. John, The Manse

CLYDE STREET, EAST

1 Reid, Mrs, refreshment rooms

2 and 4, M'Farlane, R. S.^ seed and grain merchant

3 M'Lachlan, L., — house, 1 Young's Place, Colquhoun Sq.
5 M'Callum and Sons, drapers

7 M'Callum, Mrs P.

8 Hart, Mrs

8 Rhodes, Mrs

9 and 11, M'Lellan, Adam, ironmonger
10 Service, Mrs

12 Paton, John, bootmaker

13 Pettit, Afred, joiner, china and toy merchant — house, 17

14 M'Nicol, Alexander, bootmaker

15 Ingram, Thomas, butter and egg store

17 Waldie, John, coach proprietor

18 Russell, Mrs

19 Imperial Hotel — James Fraser

20 Caldwell, William, tailor and clothier

22 Murray, Mrs, stoneware and china warehouse

HELENSBURGH STREET DISECTORY, 13

24 Martin, Miss, Greenburn Lodge

25 Warnock, John, fiesher— house, 31

26 Henderson, Dr Francis, Seabank

27 Fowler, James, wine and spirit merchant

28 Brown, James, clerk

28 Bennet, Mrs, Newark f ilia

32 Dale, James J.

33 M'Dougall, John, green grocer

34 Harvie, Thomas, druggist

34 M^Calhim, Daniel, Methven Yilla

34 Sword, John, Methven Yilla

34 Wilson, Robert, tobacconist, Methven Yill&

34 Glen, William, Methven Cottage

■37 Paterson, Mrs, refreshment rooms

38 Hall, Eobert H., shoemaker — house, 20 George Street

39 Wad dell and Jack, wine and. spirit merchants

40 M'AUister, Mrs

40 M'Killop, George, saddler,

40 Smith, Robert, gardener

40 Stephen, Mrs John

40 M'Dougall, Alexander, collar maker

40 Robertson, David, mason

41 Elliot, Robert, shoemaker

42 M'Farlane, Miss, dressmaker

43 Gardner & Lindsay, grain merchants
Established Church — Rev. J, Lindsay
Established School — John Eraser

45 Gardner, Duncan M,

45 M'Lellan, Daniel

45 Dickie, Robert

47 Begbie, Robert, gardener and Seedsman

48 Wheeler, Miss
48 Waugh, James B,

48 Brovv^n, Peter, engraver

48 Johnston, Mrs

49 Rankin, John, haircutting and shampooing rooms
60 Cameron, Neil, grocer

51 M'Kinlay, William, plumber— house, 53

IC ETELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY,

63 Taylor, William, joiner

54 Gilmour, Agnes, grocer

55 RennardS; J. R., apothecary — house, 59

56 Cameron, Miss

66 Donald, Archibald

57 Finlayson, Miss, confectioner

68 Whyte, John, plasterer

59 Bain, John, joiner

69 Livingstone, John, grocer

60 Kerr^ Gordon, vanman

63 Swanson, William, bootmaker — house, 59

64 Blackwood, Mrs William

64 Hodge, George, N.B.R. collector
64 Ferguson, Mrs

64 Bruce, Miss

65 Little, Mrs, draper — ^house, 71
QQ M'Nicol, Robert

66 Tyson, Mrs

67 Hamilton, Mrs, confectioner
6S Gore Booth, Mrs, East Seaside

69 Robertson, Miss, confectioner

70 Hamilton, Miss

71 Buchanan, Thomas, joiner

71 M'Pherson, Mrs

72 Smith, Miss, The Baths

72 Buchanan, Walter, J.R, The Baths

73 Maclachlan, David S., baker

74 Queen's Hotel — Alexander Williamson

75 Bain, Walter

75 Bain, Mrs •'

75 M'Farlane Duncan '

75 M'Kay, William, plasterer

76 Stirling, James, J.F., Rockend House
76 M'Millan, George, gardener

76 Patrie, John, butler

77 M'Farlane, Andrew, shoemaker

78 Wilson, Andrew, Rockville

79 GiUiss, William, Helensburgh and Glasgow earner

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 16

79 Gillies, Margaret, grocer and confectioriet

80 Walker, Mis Robert, Rockbank Houss

81 Campbell, Miss, confectioner

82 Rintoul, Andrew, grain merchant, Rockbank

82 Stevenson^ John, coachman

83 Forrester, William, plumber

84 Teacher, William, Rockfort House

84 Kerr, Robert, gardener

85 Gillies, Mrs, dairy

87 Macleod, Donald, tailor

89 M'Aiislan, Mrs, wine and spirit merchant— house, 91.

93 M^Anlay, Captain Robert, Eastburn House

93 Gordon, Alexander, painter

93 Laurie, Mrs

95 Dempster, Donald, slatet

97 Dickson, Mrs

99 Stevenson, Charles, porter

99 Jarvie, James^ goods clerk

99 Lennox, Mrs

99 Robertson, J. S., excise officer

99 Robertson, Thomas, joiner

99 M'Leod, Miss, dressmaker

99 M 'Naught, Alexander, baker

99 M'Lellan, Donald, lorijman
101 Walker, William '
103 Buchanan George — joiners' workshop
107 Niven, Mrs

109 Anderson, Miss, spirit dealer
111 Davidson^ Thomas
113 Torrance, Miss
123 M'Murrich, Daniel, blacksmith
127 Weir, Duncan, gardener
129 Somerville, Mrs
131 M'Nicol, John, baker
133 Smith, Mrs P., grocer and wine dealer
137 Buchanan, George, joiner
139 M'Allister, Angus, olporteur
141 Buchanan, Alexander, engineer

16 HELENSBURGH STEEET DIRECTORY.

143 Houston, William

147 Davie, Miss Catherine

151 Kyle^ Andrew, spirit dealer

153 Yates, Mrs

153 Service, Mrs

157 Peddie, William, gardener

157 Brown, Robert, clerk

157 M'Kirdy, James, plumber

157 M'Nicol^ John, joiner

157 Walker, Mrs

159 Miller, David, mason

161 Laurie, Thomas, butler

161 Morrison, Miss Ann

165 Drummond, Vfilliam, joiner

167 Gray, Miss ' ,

169 Flint, James, mason

171 Kater, John, joiner

173 M'Intosh, Mrs

175 Young, G-eorgej iehgineer

177 Bain, Mrs

177 Menzies, Miss

179 Taylor, William, joiner

181 Sellars, Peter, gardener

189 M'^Parlane, Alexander, gardener

189 Brown, Miss^ washer and dresser

191 M'Gilvary, Mrs

193 Lightbody, Mrs

197 Pollok, Robert, commercial traveller

197 Ferguson, Miss, Barncroft

199 Hamilton, Charles, Oakfield

201 Kiiighorn, James, Windsor Cottage

203 Kemp, Miss, Albert Cottage

205 M'Aalay, Alexander, Eastbank Cottage

209 Beattie, John, Rocklee House

211 Robertson, J. C, Eastwood House

217 Walker, R. D„ Maple Bank

Reid, Rev, S, W., Rockfort Place
Drumfork Toll— Vf iliiam M'Lellau

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 17

Cameron, Mrs, Old Toll House, Drumfork
Caldwell, James, farmer, Craigendoran

CLYDE STREET, WEST

1 Watt, Robert, draper

2 Brazil, Jolm, tailor and. clothier— house, 3 Colquhoun St,

3 Ponds, James, wine and spirit merchant

4 Temperance Hotel and Restaurant — WilliamGatenby

5 Robb, David, tobacconist

6 Crated AVater Manufactory — Alex. Williamson, junr.
6 O'Eake, Barney, labourer

6 M'Ginnes, Patrick, labourer

6 Billiard and Smoking Room — Wm. Waters

7 M 'Galium, C. & M., milliners

8 Lennox & Chapman, family grocers and wine merchants

9 M'Nair, William, family grocer and wine merchant

10 Bank of Scotland — A^lexander Breingan^ agent

11 Houston, Mrs
13 Suttie, Mrs A.

1 4 Service, Mrs, refreshment rooms

15 DingAvell, Roderick

15 Elliot, Robert, shoemaker

16 Ross, James, watchmaker

17 Dixon, Robert, baker— house, 15

18 Dickson and Yeitch, grocers

19 Macneur, Alexander^ bookseller—house, 20

20 Ireland, George

20 Reid, Alex., plumber

21 Frie, Mrs, china warehouse — house, 20

22 Roy, Gabriel, watchmaker

23 Young, Miss, fruiterer and confectioner

24 Campbell, Finlay, grocer and wine merchant

25 Moir, Mrs, fishmonger — house, 39

26 Porter, Miss, milliner

27 Allan, A. P., bookseller

28 Reid, D, Stevenson, pharmaceutical chemist

29 Parlane, Mrs, umbrella and staymaker — house, 32

30 Holms, Mrs, draper— house, 65

IR HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORT.

32 Spence, Mrs

32 M'Laren, John, joiner

32 M'Laren, Mrs, dressmaker

33 An oil, Wa'fcer, poiiltsrer and fraiterar

34 M'Kinlay, Mrs
■34 Arroll, Mre,

34 Craig, Robert, joiner

35 Patterson^, William, tailor'and clothier — house, b^

36 "Waters, William, upholsterer and cabinetmaker

37 Morris, Mrs, baker — house, 39

38 Stevenson, Robert, boot and shoemaker

39 M'Garrigle, Hugh, labourer
39 Neil, Henry, gardener

39 Brough, William, painter

39 Burns, Mrs

39 Kerney, Edward, coachman

39 Aitken, Mrs

39 McDonald, Archd., yachtsman

39 Dempster, Mrs

39 Williaimsoftc John,'"u'pholsteref

39 Wilkie, Robert, labourer

40 Freebairn, Mrs, jeweller

41 Donald, Archibald, butter, ham, and egg merchant

42 Wilson, John, flesher

43 Glen, Peter, tobacconist — house, 44

44 M 'Donald, Mrs
44 Smith, Alex.
44 Melvine, Mrs
44 Holliss, Charles

46 M'Kira, Adam, bookseller'

47 Kyle, Andrew, spirit merchant

48 Russell, M. C, confectioner

49 Buchanan, Jumes, grocer

60 Thomson, R. & J. drapers, Argyle Place

51 Watt, J. A., china merchant, Argyle Place

52 Paterson, & Son, upholsterers

55 M'Callura, Donald, grocer

56 Watson. John, baker

HELENSBURGH STREEt DIRECTOEt. 19

56 Fraser, Miss
^56 M'Leod, Mrs

57 M 'Donald, Miss

58 M'Ciilloch, J. W„ painter

59 Wardlaw, David, baker — bouse, 61

60 Jaraieson, James^ fiesher

61 Williamson, Alex,^ juni^v ssrated water manufacturer
61 Grant, A. W.

61 Napier, Mrs

63 Angus, George, painter

64 Gairdner, Catlirine, dressmaker

65 Jack, John, builder

65 Hay, James, wood merchant

66 Clark, John, draper

67 Young, Gavin, surgeon dentist

68 Forewell, Henry, druggist. Flower Bank

69 Leggat, Mrs, Flower Bank

70 Forrest, Mrs, Flower Bank

71 Hobertson, Miss, Ardmoro

72 M'Ewan, Mrs, Ardmore

73 Falconer, Miss

74 Burns. Adam

76 Kerr, Miss, Bellevue House

77 M'Millan, Mrs, Ivy House

78 Bunten, Mrs, Olaremont Yilla

79 Gibb, Dr. G., Lorn House

80 Baird, Rev. John, West Bay Cottage

81 McDonald, Mrs, West Bay Cottage

82 Scott, Mrs James

83 Brown, John, J.P., Brandon Grove

84 Fullerton, Gavin, Farnie House

85 Martin, Joseph Russell

86 Oughterson, Miss Dahlbeg
88 Aitchison, Miss

89. Reid, Dr Douglas, Easterton House

COLQUHOUN SQUARE.
1 M'Lachlan, Lachlan, baker, Young's Place

20 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

2 Bryde^ Arcliibald^ coach -builder

3 Dempster^, Donald, slater

4 M'Aiday, James, boat-hirer

6 Bain, Mrs, box mangle keeper

6 Ingram, James, mason

7 Walker, Robert

7 Walker, Mrs, ladies' mirse

7 Fraser^ Janet

8 Eman, John, coal merchant
8 Galloway, William,

1 7 ISTational Bread Company

18 Lorimer, Mrs
18 M'Pherson, Mrs

18 Cairns, Alex,, grocer

18 Shaw, William, grocer

19 M'Pherson, & Carson, painters

20 Beveridge, Miss, milliner

21 M^Pherson, Malcolm, painter •
21 Morton, Miss

21 Bayne, Thomas, teacher

21 Barclay, Andrew, builder

22 Missionary Hall, and Penny Savings Bank

24 Union Bank — Wm, Drj^sdale, agent

25 Glover, John, ticket collector
25 Glover, Mrs, dressmaker

25 Newlands, Thomas, beadle of West Free Church

25 Gairdner, John, corkcutter

26 Dow, John, joiner, Pine Grove Cottage

27 M'Callum, Peter, house painter, Colquhoun Place
27 Brown, Mrs „

27 Dingwell, John^ joiner „

27 Yere, Thomas_, coach builder „

27 Murrie, John, blacksmith, „

28 Oddfellows' Hall

29 Todd^ Peter S., boat builder

COLQUHOUN STKEET.

1 Brash, John

2 Currie, George, cabman

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 21

2 Reid, Mrs James

2 jardiiie,. Marion

2 M'Ewan, M. & W.;, miiliners and dressmakers

3 Cavana, Bernard, tailor

4 Milk Shop — Mrs Dow

5 Drumraond^ Robert

5 Rifle Yolunteer Drill Hall

6 Caldwell, Mrs, pastry baker

7 Hamilton, Alexander, mason

7 Lyon, James, mason

8 Bakeliouse — L. M'Laclilan

9 Printing Office — William Campbell
10 Osborne, Thomas, carter

10 M 'Master, James, mason

11 Buchanan, Thomas, tailor

12 Ingram^ James,

12 Ingram, Thomas, butter and egg merchanfc

1 2 Murray^ Thomas, water inspector

13 Buchanan^ Mjss, dressmaker

15 Watson^ James, mason

16 McLean, Alexander, joiner

17 Burnett, John, slater

18 Drysdale, William, J,P,, agent. Union Bank

19 Coal Depot — John Eman

20 Miller, Mrs James

21 Kerr, William, contractor

22 Hastie, Janet

West Free Church — Rev. Alexander Anderson

23 West Free Churcli School— Miss K, Mitchell, teacher

24 M'Dougall, Mrs

24 M'Lean, Miss, dressmaker

26 David S. Allan, teacher of music

26 Hunter, Mrs

27 Miller, Miss, cloak and dressmaker

27 Yuille, Archibald B., Brownhill

28 Hamilton J Alexander, guard

29 Cramb, Duncan, Larch Villa
29 Cramb, J amesj artist, „

23 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

29 Craml-), John^ artist, Larcli Yilla

30 Crawford, Hugh, baker

31 Notman, Mrs Kobert, Colquboun Villa

32 M'Doiigall, John, gardener
32 Arroll, John, gardener

34 White, James, joiner

35 Larchfield Academy — Alex. Mackenzie, M., A., headmaster
37 Mair, George, teacher^ Gallo^vay Cuttag-3

39 Smith, Captain M. H,, Beaulah Lodge

46 Breingan, Alexander, J, P., banker, Madgefield

4B Cree, Mrs, Merlefield

50 KmoUie^ Miss, Ellangowan

M'Lean, John, D. L., High School, Glasgow, Edenbanl?

Jeffrey, Miss, Torwood Villa

Houston, Adam, Baronfrow

GEORGE STREET,
1 Davidson, Mrs, dressmaker
1 Shearer, Miss
1 Smith, Mrs John
5 Paton, James, wholesale grocer
7 Beck, George

7 Ml 'Donald, Bobert Parker, baker
9 M 'A 11 lay, Mrs
11 Paton, John, wholesale stationer

19 Marsland, Sergeant James

20 Kettle, Sergeant

20 M'Lachlan, Hngh, mason

20 Hall, Robert, shoemaker

22 Boswell, John, painter

22 Balston, Alex,, Tovv^n Missionary

24 Orr Mrs James, Park House

28 Paterson, Missss, Holm Glen

30 Duncanson, Miss, Rockland Cottag©

GLASGOW STREET.

1 Miller, David, gardener to John Brown

2 Tassie, Miss, Craigbank

3 Campbell, Bobert, coal JXi enchant, VtTellcroft

HELENSBURGH STREET DISEQTORT. 2S

4 Sliields, "William, joiner
7 Wallace, Mrs, Westwood
9 Fraser, Mrs, Beauly Cottage

10 M'Nair, William, Willowburn Cottage

11 Forrester, Mrs, Porton Cottage

12 Black, David^ coach proprietor

14 Anderson, H, L., Ava Cottage

1 5 Gray_, Mrs^ Govane Bank

15 Govane, Miss, Govane Bank

16 Gray, John, Easterton,

17 Smith, Patrick, Westfield

18 Bisk, Mrs, Elniwood

19 Andrew, Thomas, Yew Bank

GLENFINLAS STEEBT».
2. Carlo w, Win.
8 Mackenzie,. John, tailor
8 Burns, Mrs
8 McGregor, Mrs

10 Chapman, Mrs, ladies' n^i^rse ^
12 M'Leod, Mrs

14 Rathbone, Mrs, laundress and mangle keeper
L6 Stewart, Christopher, saddlei:.

17 Mitchell, George, Blairkip

18 TurnbuU, Mrs, Ran noch Villa

20 Walker, Robert, J.R, Eskville

GRANT STEEET,.
5 Burgh Slaughter House
7 Barclay, Andrew^ builde-'

11 Industrial School — George "" 'air & Miss Malco'ni) tec ©""ler

15 M'Gehan, Henry, engine driver

19 M.'Menemy, Peter, byre and stables
50 M'Dougal, Mrs, Ard beg Cottage

62 Mackay, Martin, writer, Osborne Villa
54 Primrose, Thomas, Hawthorn Hill

GRANVILLE STREET,
1 Falconer, Thomas, J.P., Parkhiii
3 Grahamj M, C.^ Huntly Villa

24 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

5 Wotherspoon, Miss^ teacher of music^ Pomona Yilla
7 Kirkwood, Mrs Alexander, Clarefoot

9 Hamer, Job, Garden Bank

10 Murdoch, John^ Dalblair

11 MacGoun^ Misses, •Killearn Lodge
13 Mitchell, John, Brooklee

15 Mirrlees, Miss, Burnshill

17 Yannan, Robert, tea and wine merchant, Blawlowan

HANOVER STREET.

2 Monteith, Adam, Eastbank
4 Henderson, Mrs, Eastbank

HAVELOCK STREET.
1 Eisken, Archibald, Birkhall

3 Gilmour, Mrs, Edgemount

6 Stewart, Alexander^ Collinslee

7 York, Miss, Eairthorn

JAMES STREET.

1 Dewar, Donald, gardener

1 Ogilvie, Mrs

2 Roy, Gabriel^ watchmaker

2 Thomson, Alexander, plumber

8 Buchanan, Thomas, tailor

10 Clydesdale Bank— E. D, Orr, sgent

12 Orr, R. D., J,P,, banker

13 Burgess, James, gardener

14 Lament, LIngh, dairyman and carter

15 Ballantyne, James, shoemaker

16 Smith, William, baker

17 Allan, James, gardener
19 Pro van, Andrew

19 M'Kay, Miss, dress and cloakmaker

20 Wilson, Mrs

20 Jardine, Bryce, coal merchant

20 Kennedy, Mrs

21 M'Coll, Duncan, joiner

22 M'Kinlay, Mrs

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 25

22 M'Gonnel, David, Roseneath post

22 M'Lachlan, Mary

22 Orr, Andrew, labourer

23 M'Millan, Hamilton

23 Melville, Robert, mason

23 Gillespie, William, engineer

23 Litster, Mrs

23 Campbell, Mrs

24 Black, Jolin, slater

24 Gordon, James, house painter

24 Ferguson, James liarbour-master

24 M'Neil, Hugh, carter

24 M'Kay, James, joiner

24 Smith, Mrs

32 Henderson, John, dairyman

32 Henderson, Joseph,, boatbuilder

35 M'Naughton, John, dairyman and carter

37 Neil son, Mrs, washer and dresser

37 Brabender, Andrew

37 Henderson, Wm., mason

37 Allan, Walter, blacksmith

37 Ward, John, tinsmith

37 Forsyth, Mrs

39 M'Gregor, Gregor, mason

39 M'Kinnon, Peter, labourer

40 Yuile, Miss, Prospect Cottage

41 Ferguson, George, painter

42 Marquis, Miss, Argyle Park

43 Campbell, Robert, grocer and coal merchant

44 Patterson, R. J. B,, Dalglenan Lodge
44 Patterson, Mrs J. B., Dalglenan Lodge
46 Walker, Miss Lydia, Hilsrig

48 Samuel, Miss, Dunbeg

60 M'Clure, Robert, writer

51 Springfield Academy — Thomas Harker, head-master

52 Lindsay, Alexander, Leven Villa

53 Harker, Thomas, Springfield Academy

61 Sloan. Charles, Springbank Cottage

26 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

63 Smith, James, Metiiili Field
65 Anderson J Mrs, Violet Bank
67 Thomson, Miss, ladies' boarding and day school, Glenfruin,

House
69 Brown, Miss, Middkdrift
71 CJrie, Rev. William, Sefton Cottage
71 XJrie, Miss, Sefton Cottage

Anderson, John, Clarendon Villa

Reid, D. S. Hartree

Duff, Rev, David, M.A., L.L.D., Glenan Manse

JOHN STEBST.

1 Thomson, J. & R.^ drapers

2 Adams, Mrs, dressmaker
2 Leitch, Miss Jane

2 M'Farlane, John, Joiner
S Fubister, Miss, foirier

3 Ewing, Peter, coal merchant
S Nimmo, John, baker

4 Bride, Archibald

4 Short, George, shoemaker

5 Craig, John, mason

6 Lindsay, John, gardener

7 Grant, Miss Mary

7 Arroll, James, gardener

8 Hannah, Mrs Thomas

9 Martin, Miss Christina

9 Brabendar, Archibald, po2:,ter-^

9 Scott, Mrs

9 Robertson, James, mason

9 Kennedy, Miss

9 Murray, Miss
10 M'Innes, Robert, shoemaker
10 M'Dermid, Margaret

10 Robertson, David, bootmaker-

11 and 13, Hill, Samuel, grocer

12 Service, Janet

15 Cochran, Captain James

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 27

17 Young, William

22 and 24, Ferguson & Shields, joiners

23 Bryce, William, Burnbank Cottage
23 Aitken, John

27 Kinniburgh, Alexander _, inspector of poor

29 Dingwell, John, The Glennan

30 M'Allister, John, joiner, and Established Church beadle,
30 Colquhoun, Mrs

30 M 'Isaac, Hugh, mason
30 Moody; Miss

30 M'Taggart, Miss, dressmaker

31 Templeton, James, Drumgarve

32 Finlay, Captain, Portland Place

33 Donaldson, Mrs P., Lenylea

33 Sinclair, Alexander, ,,

34 M'Kenzie, Mrs Alex.

34 Finlay, Alexander, clerk

34 Owler, Mrs

35 Bobertson, Miss, Annat Lodge

36 Bisland, Alex., painter ^

37 Mathieson, Mrs, Glendarroch House

38 Anderson, Miss J,

39 M'CuUoch, John C, Woodburn House

40 Colquhoun, Captain

40 Bain, A ndrew John, teacher
40 Grant, Mrs C.
40 Assafrey, A. T.
42 Dickson, James
44 Arroli, p,obert, gardener
50 M'Callum, Peter, Sunnyside Cottage
5Q Dunlop, Robert, writer, Springfield Hous^-
58 Kerr, John, coachman
60 Hannah, Mrs Thomas, Tiaurel Green
62 Pollock, Bobert, Cornwall House
E-ennie, Mrs William, Wellcroft

JOHN STREET LANE.
Barr, Gavin, Hartfield
Troup, Kev. James, M.A.j Seirra Cieare

28 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

Mylius, Major Rodney, Dallglennan Cottage
Henderson, James, „

KING'S CRESCENT,

1 M'Auslan, Archibald, Park Cottage

2 WrigLt, Rev. T., Towerville

3 Lockhead, John, Roiibank

3 Fuller, J. S,

4 Laird, Alexander A,, Clyde View

KINa STREET, EAST.
4 Hodgson, Parker, police sergeant, Gay's Cottage-

20 Musrray, Patrick, joiner

21 King Street Hail — James Lennox, keeper
37 Cliiene, Patrick John, Eastburn Cottage
40 Jardiae, Janies^ bootmaker

42 Paton, Mrs

47 Eastburn School — Miss Da^ie, teacher

47 McGregor, Gregor, mason

47 Carruthers, Richard, cartwright

fil Lindsay, M., (of Gardner & Lindsay), grain merchant

53 Lindsay, John, contractor

62 Rowson, Rev. Samuel B.^ R.C.C.

64 Niven, James^ landscape gardener

66 Ponds, James, Whinbrae

68 Sinclair, Mrs, Eastburn Place-

68 Robertson, William, tailor „

€8 Douglas, Alex., gardener „

68 M'Lachlan, Hugh, railway porter „

70 Waters, Wm., upholsterer „

72 Shearer, William^ „

74 Cameron, Duncan, gardener „

76 M'Leod, John, beadle of Park Free Church „

78 Kirkmichael, John, railway porter ,,

78 M'Lachlan, Mrs A, '„

78 M'Kellar, John, gardener „

78 M'Lachlan, James, mason „

78 Livingstone, Mrs, washer and dresser „

<r8 Crocket, Mrs, „

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY, 29

78 M'Cabe, John, coal merchant Eastburn Place

78 Robertson, John, mason „

78 Lang, Alexander, mason „

78 Paterson, John, mason „

82 Somerville, James, grocer „

84 Allan^ George, grocer

88 Brown, John, mason and grocer

Kerr & Bishop, joiners

90 MfMenemy, Peter, dairyman

94 Pollock, James, grocer

95 Town Mission Reading Room

100 Cornall, F,, coal merchant — depot 17 Princes street, w.

104 Donglas, Mrs, washer and dresser

110 Stevenson, Robert, plasterer

118 Wood yard — Archibald M 'An si an, joiner

124 Stirling, Mrs^, Woodside Place

126 Mason, Miss „

126 M'Skimmon, Captain „

126 Turner, Mrs ,,

126 Kenny, Captain „

129 M'Dougal, Mrs, Cora House

130 M 'Naught, Archibald, farmer

131 Campbell, Colin, Cora House
133 Crow, Mrs, Braefoot

135 M'Auslan, Miss, Enmore

137 Buchanan, Moses, Aberdale

142 Purvis, T. A., station master

144 Gray, James, Park House

li8 Fox, Wm, H.^ leather merchant, La Belle Villa

150 Comrie, Alexander, builder, „

152 Stirrat, Mrs, „

154 Orr, Mrs, Lauder Villa

156 Finlay, Mrs, Mayfield

160 Richmond, John, Doune Cottage

164 Tweedle, Robert, Parkend Cottage

170 Sloan, Dr 8,, M 'Master's Cottage

Mitchell, Miss, Mil lerslee Villa

Els worth, John, „

30 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

KING STREET, WEST

1 Oolquhoiin, Mrs, Moss Cottage

2 Anderson, Rev. Alexander, West Free Manse

3 Thomson, Mrs

3 M'Ewan, Thomas, mason

3 Hunter, J ames, plasterer

3 M^ Arthur, Peter, gardener

3 M'Lachlan, Henry, painter
12 Murray, Donald, joiner — house 14
1 6 Wilson, John, Devar Cottage
16 Jenkins, Miss, Devar Cottage
18 Lamond, Miss, Sunny side
20 Campbell, Miss, „
20 Grant, Mrs, „

20 M'Callum, Donald, tailor

25 Bulloch, James, gardener

26 Ronald, Mrs, Dover Cottage

27 Ferguson, Miss

28 Smith, Mrs, Rossdhu Villa

29 M'Pherson, Wm., gardener

30 Snell, Miss, Rossdhu Yilla

31 Harvie Miss

32 M'Laurin, Miss

33 Brown, Alexander, St. Clair Yilla
35 Warren, Timothy, St. Clair Yilla
38 Waddell, David, Eva Cottage

40 Adams, Mrs, Mossbank Cottage
42 King, Mrs, Yalley field

42 King, John, Yalley field

43 Drysdale, Mrs, Mossgrove

46 Thomson, Misses, IJnion Yilla

48 Duncan, Mrs J., „

49 M'Candy, Mrs

50 Gray, G. W., Carisbrook

51 Webster, John, merchant, Clyde Cottage

52 Nairn, John, Roselea Cottage

52 Cochrane, Miss, Roselea Cottage

53 Tait, William, Netherlee

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 31

54 Clark, Miss^ Melbourne Villa

56 M'Plierson, Mrs, 'Ashens

67 Lay, Miss

58 Thomson, John, "Woodneuck

59 Shaw, William

60 Auld, Mrs T., Woodneuck

61 Good, John, mason

63 Macduff, Peter, Hayfield Cottage

LOMOND STREET.

2 Battieson, Mrs

7 Eodger, John, carter and dairyman

8 Macindoe, Mrs Walter, Albion Cottage
10 Harvie, George, chemist_, Kilinn Cottage
15 Gray, William, railway guard

17 Jamieson, William, yacht master, DougaFs Place

19 Smith, Mrs

19 Graham, Miss

19 Gourlay, Margaret

19 Drew, Miss

23 Bougall, Mrs John, Hopewell Cottage

24 Fowler, James, spirit merchant, Alma Cottage-

25 Kamsay, Mrs, Hopewell Cottage

26 Comrie^ Alexander^ Pairyknowe
SO WilliamSj Mrs, Stewart Green
30 Yallance, Miss „

30 Macfarlane, Mrs „

32 M'Ewan, James, Brackenhill Cottage

33 Pearson, John, Bloomfield

34 Burgess, Miss, Elgin Yilla

41 Brown, Robert, Lomond Cottage

43 Dun, stationer, Fruinfield

45 Coltart, John, Larkhill

MAITLAND STEEET,

1 M'Laren, Miss

2 Colquhoun, John

Muirhead, Robert, (of Mnirhead and Peddie), painteri^
Snodgrass, James

32 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY

Robb, David

3 Gardner and Lindsay's grain store

4 Brown, Mrs

4 Docharty, Thomas, labourer

4 Stewart, Donald, carter

4 Fislier, Daniel, shoemaker

4 Smith, Robert, mason

4 Service, Marj^, washer- worn an

6 Temperance Hall

6 M'Farlane, Mrs

8 Paton, John, boot and shoemaker

10 Ruthven, John, saddler

11 Cameron, Archibald, gardener
11 Mackay, James, carter

11 M 'Donald, Lachlan, carter

11 Wylie, George, seaman

12 Bulloch, Francis, gardener

12 Purvis, William, carter

13 Glen, Mrs,

14 Strachan, Mrs

14 Gilchrist, Thomas, porter

14 Grehan, John, police constable

14 Stirling, William, tailor

14 Meldrum, George, painter

14 Neil, Henry, gardener

15 Campbell, Alexander, carter
15 M'Leod, Donald, tailor

15 M^Leod, Miss, dressmaker

15 Glen, Mrs

15 Mackay, Mrs

15 M'Farlane, Mrs

16 M'Innes, Thomas, gardener

16 M^'Innes, Mrs, grocer

17 M^Cafer, Miss, washer and mangle keeper
17 M'Pherson, Malcolm, mason

17 Kelly, Mrs

17 Ferguson, Miss

17 Roper, Mary

HELEiSrSBURGH STREET DIRECTORYo 33

18 M'Auslane, Robert, shoemaker

19 Millar, John, labourer
19 Paul, Mrs

1 9 Murphy, John, scavengar

19 M'Neil, John, joiner

19 Rennie, Mrs

19 Doun, Andrew, plumber

1 9 Thomson, William^ gardener

19 M'Farlane, Andi^w, gardener

19 Greenlee, John, gardener

19 M'Aulay, Frank, gardener

1 9 Craig, James, gardener

19 M'Cormick, Mrs, washer- womani

19 M'Cree, Miss

19 M'Vej, Miss

1 9 Forsyth, Mrs

19 Forsyth, Miss, dressmaker

20 Stirling, Mrs, draper — house, 14

21 Morris, Mrs, mangle keeper

22 White, Alexander, butcher

23 Slorance, G«orge, gardener

23 Smith _, David, mason

24 Robertson, Mrs

24 M'Pherson, Daniel, slater

24 M'Kenzie, George, plasterer

25 Murray, Mrs

26 Spiers, William, barber — house, 14

MILLIG STREET, EAST

M'Haffie, Mrs, Belmont

Sharp, William, Glenfeulan

Angus, Ritchie, Lindens, Victoria Road

SnodgrasSj Matthew, farmer, East Milligs Farm

MILLIGS STREET, WEST

Murdoch, Misses, ladies' boarding school, Ashmount
Somervail, James, Carron Bank
M'Gregor, John, Ardshiei
Robiey, Harrington, Carleton

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Robertson, Andrew C, WoodeTid House
MONTEOSE STREET, EAST

1 Chapman, William, Agnew Villa

5 Steven, TLomas, J. P., Ardiui Honse

7 Peat, Misses, da,y school, Barwood
9 Wilson, Hev. John, Camden Villa

11 M'Miilan, Daniel, Pinlea

13 Dale, Kobsrt C, Braehead

13 Drysdale, Archibald B,^ Ochil Bank

15 M'Lellan, Duncan, Annock Bank
17 Headman, James, St, Leonarels

19 Millar, William, Wellington Lodge

19 Millar, Miss Jane

21 Smithy William, confectioner, Fernbank

23 Gillies, John, merchant, Glenelg Villa
25 Garroway^ James, Airdbank

27 Allan, Miss, Greenknowe

29 Corbett, William A., J.P,, Carbrook

31 Paterson, George, Dunfillan

MONTROSE STSEET, WEST

1 Skene, Mrs J.

2 White, Mrs, Wardfield

4 Neil, Mrs David, Hillside Cottage

6 Robertson, Mrs, Blairnairn. House

8 Car slaw, Mrs, „

9 Ramsay, James^ Woodend Nursery
9 Ramsay, Miss^ dressmaker

10 Robertson^ Matthew, Annsfield

11 Bachanan, Miss

12 Currie, John, Heathfield

14 Gow, Archibald, Ash burn House

16 Fyfe, Miss, Letrewel

1 6 Frew, John, Elmwood Cottage

20 Orr, Mrs Robert, Ballimore Lodge

22 Kirkwood, Miss, Laurel Villa

24 Todd, Mrs James, Woodlea

PRINCE'S STREET, EAST

1 Hay, Mrs John, draper — house. 5

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY, 35

2 Snodgrass, Andrew, boot and shoemaker, Young's Place
S Millar, Jaraes, carver and gilder,

4 M'Lean, Miss Jessie, furnishing shop, Young's Place

5 Donaldson, Mrs

6 Beveridge, John, gardener
5 Paterson, William, saddler

5 Yeitch, John

6 M'Lachlan, George, writer, Young's Place

7 Wilson, Robert, tobacconist

8 Paton, William, gardener, Young's Place

9 PostOffice — William Bryson, postmaster, nurseryman,

and seedsman
9 Public Library ,

10 Millar, James
10 Gray, Mrs

10 Goodwin, Alexander, joiner

11 Millar, Mrs T., bookseller

12 Watt, Miss J. A-, china merchant, Rossdhu Place

13 Ferguson, Andrew, painter

14 Gilchrist, William, baker

15 M Arthur, Mrs, dairy

16 Cuthill, James, flesher

17 Barr, Francis, tailor
17 Adams, William, tailor

17 Cornall, Francis — coal depot

18 Service, H. & M., dressmakers

19 Stevenson^ Robert — workshop

20 Berlin Wool Repository — Dickson and Aikman — ho., 79

21 Waldie, John — blacksmiths' workshop

21 Hunter, James — bakehouse

22 Billiard and Smoking Room — T, M'Menemy, proprietor

23 Reid, William, plumber and gasfitter

24 Muirhead & Peddie, painters

2 5 Parochial Board 0 ffice — Al exander Kinniburgh, inspector

26 M'Menemy, Peter, grain merchant

27 M'Lachlan, Mrs

28 Barron, Mrs, refreshment rooms

29 M'Culloch, J. W. & Son, painters and paperhangers

36 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY,

30 Telfer, James, fraiterer

31 Police Office — John Anderson^ superintendent

32 Henderson, Miss, flesher

33 Town Hall and Court House

34 Veitch^ John, junr.^ spirit dealer

35 Kusseli, William, coal merchant

36 Hunter, James, baker — house^ 10

37 Ewing, Peter & Co., coal merchants

38 Harvie, George, chemist

39 Railway Station — T. A. Purves, station-master

40 -Burgess, James, grocer and provision merchant

41 Glen, John, contractor

42 M'Menemy, Thomas, tobacconist — house, 76

43 M'Meuemy, Peter

44 Ure, Miss M., embroidery printer

44 Spalding, James^ writer and insurance agent

44 Stamp and Tax Office — James Spalding distributor and

collector
44 Bain, Mrs

44 Dickson, Mrs

45 Rankin, Mrs, Main Cottage

46 Frame, Helen, fruiterer

47 M 'Galium, Mrs, washer woman

48 Provan, Andrew, bookseller and stationer

49 Carson, Mrs

60 Battrum, William, bookseller, stationer, and fancy goods

emporium — music shop, 7 Sinclair Street

52 Printing Office and Reading Room — Wm. Battrum

-62 Allan, Miss

52 Meikle, John

52 Robertson, David, gardener
64 & 56 Muir, Robert, draper

■58 McDonald, David Ross, pastry cook and resterateur

5'9 Kelly, John, labourer

60 Temperance Hotel — Mrs Sharp

60 Baliantyne, James

60 Allwood, Jonathan, gothic glazier

61 Stewart, William, photographer

HELENSBUKOH STKEET DIRECTORY. 57

62 (fe 64 Mitcliell, A. E,., grocer and spirit merchant

63 M'Kimb^'^JameS; stationer

66 Sharf)^ Thomas, butcher

67 Campbell, John, mason.

68 Haiidltoia, James
68 Orme, William

68 Shearer, James

69 Hosie, Kussell, blacksmiths

70 Peddie, W„, fruiterer

71 Galloway, John^ mason

72 Filluelj Charles, fish merchant — house, 68

73 Williamson, William, tinsmith

74 M'Lean, Donald, grocer, — honse, 76

75 Tait, Miss

76 Anderson, John, joiner

77 M'Phersou, Mrs.;

78 Stevenson, Robert, boot and shoemaker — house, 76

79 Cunningham, Matthew, joiner
79 Rumgay, James, joiner

79 Plo Wright Miss

80 Stewart, Misses, milliners

81 Crawford J Miss, dressmaker

82 M'Crae, Kenneth, wholesale confectioner

83 Tosh, Misses

84 M airhead, Mrs

84 Love, Robert, mason

84 Murray, Pcitrick, joiner

84 Cunningham, John, gardener

86 Thomson, Peter, wine and spirit merchant— Jiouse, 84"

87 Edgar, John, Greenbank Cottage

88 Gas Work — William Smith, manager
93 Anderson, Joseph, tailor

93 Adar, William, gardener to Dr Finlaj

93 M'Donald, John, cabinet-maker

93 Brownlee, John, plasterer

93 M'Corkindale, George, carter;

95 Campbell, Archibald^ joiner

95 Campbell, Miss, dressmaker

38 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

97 Spratt, Miss, Spriiigvale Cottage
115 Volunteer Artillery Drill Hall
117 Service Mrs
117 Agnew, William, painter
117 Gavana, John, painter
119 Bruce, Mrs, Glenfinlas
119 Bruce, Miss, Glenfinlas

121 Smith, Mrs

122 M'Dougal, John
126 Kerr, Mrs

128 Brown, Mrs

130 Kerr, Hugh, joiner

130 Gray, William, engine driver

131 Eddie, Mrs, Walton Cottage

132 Noble, John, mason

137 Martin, Matthew, Bath House

137 Martin, Miss „

134 Connell, George „

137 Sellers, Miss „

148 Aikman, Mrs Peter, Zona Terrace

172 Barclay, James, sculptor

172 Renfrew, Miss

172 Carslaw, William, wood-turner

172 Towers, Miss

180 Bell, James, gardener

182 Bankin, James

184 Grant, Mrs

202 Carter, Mrs, Giffnock House

204 Smith, Mrs, Giffnock House

PRINCES STREET, WEST

2 Cairns, Alexander, grocer

4 Allan, C4eorge

4 Campbell, William

4 Mitchell, Miss

6 Irvine, John, tailor and clothier — house, 4

8 Gardner, Mrs
10 Spy, Robert, letter carrier and coal merchant
10 Carson, Ro,b,ert, painter

HELENSBURGH iSTKEET DIRECTORY. 39

10 Frame, J,, joiner

10 Muter, William, grocer

10 Mitchell, David,

12 E-amsay, James, florist and seedsman

14 Porter, Clement, ujoliolsterer — house, 16

16 Chalmers, John, joiner

16 Sproul, Matthew, book deliverer

16 Grant, Mrs

18 Grant, James, plumber — house, 16

19 Congregational Church — Rev. James Troup, M,A«.

20 Brown, Jacob, painter

22 Gibbons, Patrick, photographer

24 Ward, C, coal merchant

28 M'Kinlay, Duncan, contractor

30 Smith, William^ baker and confectioner

31 Dunlop, William, coal merchant

32 McMillan, Hamilton, spirit dealer

33 Woodyard — Duncan M'Coll, joiner

34 Maxwell, Mrs

35 Jack, John, stables

36 Russell, William

38 Russell, Mrs, dairy

39 Shanks, Mrs

39 Trough t, S. E., portrait and landscape painter.-

39 Dunlop, William

40 Deans, John, surfaceman

40 Goodwin, Mrs, washer and dresser

41 Middlemass, Joseph, blacksmith.

41 Hamilton, Mrs J..

42 Rodger, James, carter
42 Park, Alexander, saddler

42 Campbell, William, shoemaker,

42 IngleS; John, shoemaker

42 Park, Thomas, slater-

42 Robb, John, mason

43 Ross, Misses, milliners and dressmakers •

44 M^Coll, John, joiner

45 Lamont, Miss

40 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

46 Bain, Mrs John

46 O'Neil, Michael, gardener

46 Haxton, 'John, fireman

47 Buchanan, William^ joiner

48 Forsyth, James, slater

49 Hill, Samuel

50 Mackay, John, mason

51 Aitken, Miss

52 Cameron, Mrs

54 Chapman, Miss^ teacher of music

55 Morrison, Mrs, George

56 Leslie, Captain,

56 Paterson, Miss

57 Boatbuilding and joiners' yard

58 Watson, John

59 Thomson, William, joiner

59 Thomson, Robert, boatbuilder

60 Jack, Mrs A., Holyrood Place

61 Johnson, David, mason

62 Watt, Robart, draper

62 Stewart, Mrs,

63 Fisher, Miss, mangle keeper

64 Jamieson, Joseph

65 Ross, John, mason

66 Pender Miss

66 M'Auslan, Misses^ laundresses

68 Glen, John

68 Colquhoun, Mrs

70 Hunter, Mrs

70 Buchanan, James, grocer

72 Bell, Miss

72 Munro, Alex, gardener

7 i Wood yard — William Buchanan, joiner

80 Wotherspoon, Mrs, Rosebank Terrace

82 M'Gilp, Miss, Rosebank Terrace

84 Foot, Miss, Rosebank

85 Campbell, Robert, Wellcroffc
87 Fisher, Miss, Wellcroft

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY, 41

87 Fisher, Robert M., teacher Qf painting and diiawing,

Wellcroft
91 Buchanan, Mrs, Brandongrove Cottage

95 Mackie, Charles, Milton Cottage

96 Perritt, William, Byron Cottage

97 Galloway, Wm, town weigher, Milton Cottage

98 Cameron, Archibald, gardener

99 Anderson, John, Loch view

101 Baton, Mrs

102 M'Culloch, Wm. L,, Laui<el Cottage
104 Baton, Mrs, Blairburn Yilla

106 Colquhoun, Daniel, ironmonger, West wood Cottage

108 Wallace, Mrs

108 M'Auslan, Mrs A.

110 M'Haffie, James

110 I-^ang, Miss, Bell view

112 Scoular, William, Leewood Yilla

SINCLAIR STREET.

1 Forbes, Mrs, milliner and dressmaker

2 Mitchell, John^ grocer, wine and spirit merchant

3 Dickie, R. W., confectioner

4 M'Farlane, E. S,
4 Reid, Miss

4 M'Nee, John

5 Campbell, Lome, J. M., Central Apothecaries' Hall

6 Bettit, Wm. A., printer, bookseller, and house-agent

7 Bianoforte and Music Warehouse — W. Battrum

8 Orme, Wm,, butter, ham and egg merchant

9 and 11 M'Ewan, Miss, Berlin Wool Repository
10 M'Connell, Thomas, ironmonger — house, 12

12 Galloway, George, builder
12 Bryde, Archibald

12 Laurie, James, carter

13 Smith, Mrs, boot and shoemaker

14 Shaw, William, family grocer and wine merchant

15 Anderson, Miss J., furnishing shop

16 Dickson, Mrs, painter and decorator

17 Wheldon, Daniel^ carter

43 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY

18 Maincls^ William, painter

18 Paterson, Miss, teacher

19 Spy, Andrew, coal merchant — house, 12

20 Crawford, Thomas, plumber — house, 4

22 Craig, James, refreshment rooms -house, 12

24 M'Kechnie, William, dairyman and green grocer

26 M'^Kechnie, William, barman

26 M'Leod, Gabriel, gardener

26 M^Leod, Miss, dressmaker

26 Neilly, Richard, basket-maker

26 Graham, Thomas

2Q Strath, David, saddler

26 Gifford, Mark, blacksmith.

26 Stewart, Peter^ mason

26 M'Lean, Mrs

30 Davidson, John, tailor and clothier — house^ 28

31 Helensburgh Inn— John Veitch

32 Rodger, William, blacksmith — house, 34
38 Bell, Miss, refreshment rooms

40 Campbell, Peter auctioneer

41 M'Culloch J. W,, & Son, painters' shop

42 Lennox, J ames, beadle of XJ, P, Church
42 Lennox, George, painter

45 & 47 Waldie, John, coach proprietor

48 M'Kechnie, Angus, bootmaker and prison keeper:-

51 Allan, George, slater

51 Falconer, William, labourer

53 M'Kiliop, Archibald, carter

53 Boyd, Robert, coachman

53 M'Ewan, Henry, plasterer

53 Ross, William, bill poster

63 Ross^ Miss, dressmaker

53 Carline, Mrs

53 Paterson, William, mason.

53 M'Leod, Mrs

53 Hutchison, William, gardener.-

54 Sharp, Thomas

5i) M'Millan, Dougal, grocer

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTOR^.. ^3

57 Smith, Mrs, mangle keeper

59 Grierson, Jolm, mason

60 Finlay, Dr. James, M.D., Millbrae

61 Clark, William, mason
61 Young, Miss

61 Allison, James, joiner
61 M 'Isaac, John, sawyer
61 Hynclman, William

61 Hyndman, Mrs, washer and mangle keeper-

62 Aitken, James. Oxford Bank

63 M'Donald, Ronald, gardener
63 M'Callum, Mrs

63 M 'Galium, Mrs

63 Glark, Mrs

64 Jardine, Mrs, Dovehill

65 Paterson, Joseph, mason
6Q Fisher, Peter, Bonnie Brae

United Presbyterian Church— Rev, D. Duff, M, A., LL. D
67 M'Goll, Mrs, Fountain Bank
69 Bain, James, Fountain Bank
71 Bain, James, blacksmith and horse shoeing forge
73 Lamont, Mrs, Millhill

75 Buchanan, Mrs, „ ^

76 Smith, John, Hermitage

76 M'Intyre, Duncan, gardener, Hermitage

76 Arroll, Archibald, gardener

77 Nelson, Robert

79 Skimming, Alexander, cartwright

81 Bow, Mrs, Millview

82 Buchanan, John, Hermitage Cottage

83 M'Laren, Alexander, Millfield
85 M'Gregor, Robert, Ettrick Bank
87 Gray, Hugh, Braeside

S9 Hamilton, James, Thornton Lodge

M^Intyre, John, Cawdor Lodge, Luss Road
Deas, Mrs, East House „

Thomson, James, Fairfield, „

Wilson, Miss, Chapel .Acre, „

44 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

Kilty, H,, gardener, Chapel Acre Tiodge, Luss Road

Young, James, Rockmount,

Fleming, Mrs, Brownhill,

Bowling Green,

Robertson, James, Northwood,

Jamieson, Miss, Moorlands,

Zinkeisen, Victor, Dlmhill,

Reid, William, Dliuhill,

Millig Toll— William Brock

QUEEN STREET
Allan, James, mereliant, Warriston Lodge
Hamilton, Mrs James, Hayfield
M'^Bean, Laclilan, Findhorn
Dick, Alexander, Queensmount
Alexander, Jaraos, Racban House
Donald, Miss, Marian Lodge
Davie, Archibald, ploughman, Glenan Farm
Stoker, Archibald, ploughman, „

Jardon, Marion „

Livingston, Mrs, Ardvuela
Spenee, J ames, gardener, Ardvuela
Stewart, Walter, Glenan
lindsay, John^ farmer, Woodend Farm

STAFFORD STREET.

2 Lennox, Alexander, Albert Yilla
4 Hendry, Mrs, Glencairn
6 M^Lachlan, George, Blairlomond
12 Anderson, Alexander, J.R, Wellfield

SUFFOLK STREET..

1 Wylie, Robert, Lochiel Cottage

2 Fulton, Mrs, Farnie House

3 Cook, Matthew, Byron Cottage

4 Andrew, Miss, La Retraite
0 Butt, Edward, Canton Cottage

6 Dorward, Charles, Lochview

7 Craig, Alexander, Oriel Cottage

HELENSBURGH STKEET DIRECTORY. 45

9 Lindsay, Miss, Valleyfield

9 Hector, Miss, Valleyfield

9 Campbell, Alexander^ joiner
11 M'^Auslane, Miss, Sunnybrae
11 Oliphant, Miss ,,

13 Hadfield, Mrs, Oakbank

15 M'Farlane, Mrs, Claremont House

16 Battrum, William, Mossbank House

1 7 Blair;, Mrs, Annsfield Yilla

18 Malcolm, William, Mossbank House

19 Walker, Mrs R., Elmtree Villa

20 Reid, Mrs, Anchorage

21 Currie, Captain Henry, Helenslee

22 Webster, Robert, Ardenvabr

23 Thomson, James, Grange

24 Arnot, Thomas, Shaw field
26 Drew, Miss, Holly Villa

Potter, Mrs, Auchentiel

SUTHERLAND STREET.

2 Kennedy, Fergus

3 Robertson, Mrs, dairy

4 M 'Isaac, Mrs, Heath Cottage

6 Jamieson, Mrs Thomas, Jordonhill

7 Ferguson, Andrew B., Woodside Cottage

8 Heggie, Mrs James

9 Campbell, James, gardener, Woodside Place
9 M'Auslane, Mrs, „

9 Millar, Miss „

10 XJre, Miss

10 Watt, Mrs

11 Robertson, Mrs

SUTKERLAND STREET, NORTH.
Smith, Miss, Payta Villa
Leiper William, architect, Tertesie
Hunter, David, Duncairn

SUTHERLAND CRESCENT, UPPER.

1 M'Gregor, John, J. P., Bonny ton

2 Murray, Robert, civil engineer, Woodhill

46 HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY.

SUTHERLAND CRESCENT, LOWEE.

1 Dennistoun, Miss, Elmtree Villa

2 Edward, Matthew, Sherwood

3 Robertson, James, Elm Park

3 ftobertson^ Mrs^ Elm Park

4 Leslie, Miss, Eden wood,

5 McMillan, Miss, Woodcliff

6 Bain, James, Argyle Cottage

7 Millar, Dr John, Bute Cottage

8 Parker, James, Underwood

WILLIAM STREET

1 Buchanan, Bobert

2 Crawford, William, collector

2 Greer, George

3 Law, Mrs, dressmaker, Treesbank
5 Lamb, James, Dargeeling

7 Gray, Mrs, ,,

9 Messer, Dr Fordyce, surgeon

11 Wallace, Mrs

13 Ingleton, Miss, teacher of pianoforte, harmonium, guitar,
and singing

15 Campbell, Mrs W.

16 Syme, Bev. J, Stuart, Parsonage

St. Michael and All Angels Church — Bev, J, Stuart
Syme, Incumbent

17 M'Coll, Mrs
17 M'Yey, Miss

22 Buchanan, Mrs

23 Armit, Allan, plasterer
23 Goodman, Mrs

23 M'Farlane, A^rchibald, mason
22 Keyden, Thomas, sawyer

24 Taylor, Bobert, surveyor

25 Blackwood, John, Helensburgh and Glasgow carrier

26 Weir, Mrs

27 Bald, A, H., photographer, Bichmond Cottage

28 Young, William, Loch Sloy Cottage

West Established Church— Bev. John Baird, B.Dj

HELENSBURGH STREET DIRECTORY. 47

29 Dickson, Mrs^ Homeston House

30 Ferguson, Miss

31 Smithy Alexander, gardener

32 Whitelaw, Mrs D., Greenliaugh

33 Ferguson, John, Ebenezer Cottag©

34 Ewing, William, Heath Yilla

35 Storer, James

GENERAL DIRECTORY.

AdamSj Mrs, dressmaker, 2 John street

Adams, Mrs, Mossbank Cottage, 40 King street, west

Adams, William, tailor, 17 Princes street, east

Adar, William, gardener, 93 Princes street^ east

Agnew, William, painter, 117 Princes street, east

Aitchison, Miss, 88 Clyde street, west

Aitken, James, Oxford Bank, 62 Sinclair street

Aitken^ John, 23 John street

Aitken, Mrs, 39 Clyde street, west

Aikman, Mrs Peter, lona Terrace, 148 Princes street, east

Allan, A, P., bookseller, 27 Clyde street, west

Allan, George, grocer, 84 King st., east— house, 4 Princes

street, west
Allan, George, slater, 51 Sinclair street
Allan, James, gardener, 17 James street
Allan, James, Warriston Lodge, Queen street
Allan, Mrs, The Lodge, 27 Argyle street, west
Allan, Miss, Kosevale Cottage, 14 Campbell street
Allan, Miss, Greenknowe, 27 Montrose street, east
Allan, Miss, 52 Princes street, east
Allan, Walter, blacksmith, 37 James street
Allison, James, joiner, 61 Sinclair street
Allwood, Jonathan, gothic glazier, 60 Princes street, east
Alexander, James, J.P., Rachan,Queen street
Alexander, Miss, Milligs Cottage, 46 Argyle street, east
Anderson, Alexander, J. P., Wellfield, 12 Stafford street
Anderson, H. L., Ava Cottage, 11 Glasgow street
Anderson, John, J.P,, Clarendon House, James street
Anderson, John, joiner, 76 Princes street, east
Anderson, John, supt. of police — ho, 99 Princes street, west
Anderson, Joseph, tailor, 93 Princes street, east

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 49

Anderson, Miss, spirit dealer, 109 Clyde street, east

Anderson, Mrs, Yiolet Bank^ 65 James street

Anderson, Miss J., 38 John street

Anderson, Rev, Alexander, West Free Manse, 2 King st., w

Andrew, Miss^ La Retraite, 4 SujBTolk street

Andrew, Thomas, Yewbank, 19 Glasgow street

Angus George, painter, 63 Clyde street, west

Angus, Ritchie, Lindens, Victoria Road

Armit, Allan, plasterer, 23 William street

Arnot, Thomas, Shawfield, 24 Suffolk street x.

ArroU, Archibald, gardener, 76 Sinclair street

Arrollj James, gardener, 7 John street

ArroU, John, gardener, 32 Colquhoun street

ArroU, Robert, gardener, 44 John street

ArroU^ Walter, poulterer and fruiterer, 33 Clyde street, west

Arthur, Rev. John, Burnside Cottage, 24 Campbell street

Artillery Volunteer Drill Hall, 115 Princes street, east

Assafrey, A. T., 40 John street

Auld, Mrs, Glenlea, 30 Argyle street, east

Auld, Mrs T«, Woodneuck, 60 King street, west

IB

Bain, Andrew John, teacher, 40 John street

Bain, David, weaver, 7 Charlotte street

Bain, James, Fountain Bank, 69 Sinclair street — workshop 71

Bain, James, Argyle Cottage, 6 Lower Sutherland Crescent

Bain, John, joiner, 59 Clyde street, east

Bain, Walter, 75 Clyde street, east

Bain, Mrs, 44 Princes street, east

Bain, Mrs, 177 Clyde street^ east

Bain, Mrs, 75 Clyde street, east

Bain, Mrs John, 46 Princes street, west

Baird, Rev. John, West Bay Cottage, 80 Clyde street, west

Bald, A. H., photographer, Richmond Cottage, 27 WiUiam st,

Ballantyne, James, 60 Princes street, east

Ballantyne, James, shoemaker, 15 James street

Bank of Scotland — Alexander Breingan, agent

Barclay, Andrew, builder, 21 Colquhoun square

Barclay, James, sculptor, 172 Princes street, east

50 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Barr, Francis, tailor, 17 Princes street, east
Barr, Gavin, Hartfield, John street lane
Barron, Alexander, Gowanlea, Alma Crescent
Barron, Mrs, refresliment rooms, 28 Princes street, east
Barton, William, Devaar Lodge, 34 Charlotte street
Battieson, Mrs, 2 Lomond street

Battrum, William, bookseller, stationer, printer, and fancy
goods emporium, 50 Princes street, east ; pianoforte, har-
monium, and music warehouse, 7 Sinclair street ; house,
Mossbank, 16 Suffolk street
Batty, Mrs Richard, Laurel Bank, 8 Argyle street, west
Baylis, Mrs, Giffnock Cottage, 6 Adelaide street
Bayly, Miss, Woodend Cottage, 14 Argyle street, west
Bayne, Thomas, teacher, 21 Colquhoun square
Beattie, John, Rocklee House, 209 Clyde street, east
Begbie, Robert, gardener, 47 Clyde street, east
Bell, James, gardener, 1 80 Princes street, east
Bell, Miss, refreshment rooms, 38 Sinclair street
Bennet, Mrs, Newark Yilla, 28 Clyde street, east
Berlin Wool Repositories — Miss M'Ewan, 9 Sinclair street ;

and Misses Dickson & Aikman. 20 Princes street, east
Beveridge, John, gardener, 5 Princes street, east
Beveridge, Miss, milliner, 20 Colquhoun square
Billiard and Smoking Rooms — Rossdhu place, and Clyde st. w
Bisland, Alexander, painter, 36 John street
Black, David, coach proprietor, 12 Glasgow street
Black, John, slater, 24 James street
Blackwood, John, Helensburgh and Glasgow Carrier, 25

William street
Blackwood, Mrs William, 64 Clyde street, east
Blair, Mrs, Annsfield Yilla, 17 Suffolk street
Boswell, John, painter, 22 George street
Borland, Elizabeth, Janelee Cottage, 10 Adelaide street
Boyd, Robert, coachman, 53 Sinclair street
Bow, Mrs, Millview, 81 Sinclair street
Bowling Green, Luss Road
Brabender, Andrew, 37 James street
Brabender, Archibald, porter, 9 John street

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 51

Brash, John, tailor and clothier, 2 Clyde street, west, ho.j 3

Colquhoun street
Bray, Tom Cox, Carrick House, 195 Clyde street, easb
Breingan, Alexander^ J, P., Madgefield, 46 Colquhoun street
Brougli, William, painter, 39 Clyde street, west
Brown, Alexanderj St Clair Villa, 33 King street, west
Brown, Barabara, 12 Charlotte street
Brown, Jacob, painter, 20 Princes street, west
Brown, James, clerk, 28 Clyde street, east
Brown, John, J. P., Brandongrove, 89 Clyde street, West
Brown, John, grocer, 88 King street, east
Brown, Peter, engraver, 48 Clyde street, east
Brown, Robert, Lomond Cottage, 41 Lomond street
Brown, Robert, clerk, 157 Clyde street, east
Brown, Miss, Middledrift, 69 James street
Brown, Mrs, 128 Princes street, east
Brown, Mrs, 27 Colquhoun square
Brown, Mrs, 4 Maitland street

Brown, Mrs, washer and dresser, 189 Clyde street, east
Brownlee, John, plasterer, 93 Princes street, east
Bruce, Mrs, Glenfinlas, 119 Princes street, east
Bruce, Miss, do. do.

Bruce, Miss, 64 Clyde street, east
Bryce, William, Burnbank Cottage, 23 John street
Bryde, Archibald, 12 Sinclair street

Bryson, William, nurseryman and seedsman, 9 Princes si east
Buchanan, Alexander, engineer, 141 Clyde street, east
Buchanan, George, joiner, 137 Clyde street, east
Buchanan, James, grocer, 49 Clyde street, west
Buchanan, John, Hermitage Cottage, 82 Sinclair street
Buchanan, Moses, Aberdale, 137 King street, east
Buchanan, Thomas^ tailor, 1 1 Colquhoun street
Buchanan, Thomas, joiner, 71 Clyde street, east
Buchanan, Robert, 1 William street

Buchanan, Walter, J, P., The Baths, 72 Clyde street, ea^t
Buchanan, Miss, dressmaker, 13 Colquhoun street
Buchanan, Miss, ] 1 Montrose street, west
Buchanan, Miss, Burnside House, 20 Campbell street

52 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Buchanan, Mrs, 22 William street

Buchanan, Mrs, Brandongrove Cottage, 91 Princes streetjW.

Buchanan, Mrs, Millhill, 75 Sinclair street

Bulloch, James, gardener, 25 King street, west

Bulloch, Francis, gardener, 12 Maitland street

Bunten, Miss, Claremont Villa, 78 Clyde street, west

Burns, Adam, 74 Clyde street, west

Burns, Mrs^ 8 Glenfinlas street

Burns, Mrs, 39 Clyde street, west

Burgess, James, gardener, 13 James street

Burgess, James, grocer and provision mer. , 40 Princes st. east

Burgess, Miss, Elgin Villa, ^ 34 Lomond street

Burgh Slaughter House, 5 Grant street

Burnett, John, slater, 17 Colquhoun street

Burr, Thomas, gardener. Alma Crescent

Butt, Edward, Canton Cottage, 5 Suffolk street

o

Cairns, Alexander, grocer, 2 Princes street, west; house 18

Colquhoun square
Caldwell, James, farmer, Craigendoran
Caldwell, Mrs, pastry baker, 6 Colquhoun street
Caldwell, William, tailor and clothier, 20 Clyde street, east
Cameron, Archibald, gardener, 11 Maitland street
Cameron, Archibald, gardener, 98 Princes street, west
Cameron, Duncan^ gardener, 74 King street, east
Cameron^ IsTeil, grocer, 50 Clyde street, east
Cameron, Miss, 56 Clyde street, east
Cameron, Mrs, Old Toll House, Drumfork
Campbell, Alexander, carter, 15 Maitland street
Campbell, Alexander, joiner^ 9 Suffolk street
Campbell, Archibald, joiner, 95 Princes street, east
Campbell, Colin, Cora House, 131 King street, east
Campbell, Finlay, grocer and wine merchant_, 24 Clyde st. w
Campbell, Hugh, gardener, Campbell street
Campbell, James, gardener, 9 Sutherland street ■
Campbell, Lome J. M., Central Apothecaries Hall, 5 Sinclair

street — house, Clarkfield_, 13 Campbell street
Campbell, Peter, auctioneer. 40 Sinclair street

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 03

Gampbell, "Robert, coal mercliant, Wellcroft, 3 Glasgow st.
Campbell, William^ printer, Col, st ; ho., 4 Princes st., west
Campbell, William, shoemaker, 42 Princes street, west
Campbell, Miss, Sunnyside, 20 King street, west
Campbell, Miss, dressmaker, 95 Princes street, east
Campbell, Miss, confectioner^ 81 Clyde street, east
Campbell, Mrs Archibald, Lillybank, 11 Argyle street, west
Campbell, Mrs, 15 William street
Campbell, Mrs, 23 James street
Carlow, William, 2 Glenfinlas street
Caroline, Mrs, 52. Sinclair street
Garslaw, Hev. William Henderson, M,A,, Park Free Manse, .

17 Charlotte street
Carslaw, Mrs, Blairnairn House, 8 Montrose street, west
Garslaw, William, wood turner, 172 Princes street, east
Carson, Robert, painter, 10 Princes street, west
Carson, Mrs, 49 Princes street, east
Carruthers, Richard, cartwright, 47 King street, east
Carter, Mrs, Giffnock House, 202 Princes street, east
Gavana, Bernard, tailor, 3 Colquhoun street
Cavana, John, painter, 117 Princes street, east
Chalmers, John, joiner, 10 Princes street, west
Chapman, William, -Agnew Yilla, 1 Montrose street, east
Chapman, Mrs, ladies' nurse, 10 Glenfinlas street ,

Chapman, Miss, teacher of music, 54 Princes street, west
Chiene, Patrick John, Eastburn Cottage, 37 King st., east
Christie,, Mrs Thomas, Janeville Lodge, 21 Charlotte street
Clark, John,, draper, 66 Clyde street, west
Clark,. William, mason, 61 Sinclair street
Clark,. Miss, Melbourne Villa, 54 King street, west
Clark,. Mrs, 63 Sinelair street

Clydesdale Bank — R. D, Orr, agent, 10 James street ; ho, 12
Cochran, Captain James, 15 John street
Cochrane, Miss, Roselea Cottage, 52 King street, west
Colquhoun, Andrew S. D , dry Salter, Rosemount, 3 Argyle

street, east
Colquhoun, Captain, 40 John street
Colquhoun, Daniel, Westwood Cottage, 106 Princes st,, w.

54 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Colqulioun, Jolin^ 2 Maitland street

ColquhoTin, Mrs, 30 John street

Colquhoun, Mrs, 6 Princes street, west

Colqulioun, Mrs, Moss Cottage, 1 King street, west

Coltart, John, Larkhill, 45 Lomond street

Comrie, Alexander, bnilder, 26 Lomond street

Connor, George, Bath House, 134 Princes street, east

Congregational Church, 1 9 Princes street, west— Rev. James

Troup, M.A.
Cook, Matthew Byron Cottage, 3 Suffolk street
Corbett, William A., J, P., Carisbrook, 29 Montrose st„ e£\,st
Cornall, Pi^ancis, coal merchant, 100 King street, east
Cowan, Miss, Garnet Bank, 19 Campbell street
Craig, Alexander, Oriel Cottage, 7 Suffolk street
Craig, James, refreshment rooms, 22 Sinclair st. — house, 1^
Craig_, James, gardener^ 19 Maitland street
Craig, John, mason, 5 John street
Craig, E-obert, joiner, 34 Clyde street, west
Cramb, Duncan, Larch Villa, 29 Colquhoun street
Cramb, John, ,, ,,

Cramb, James „ „

Crawford, Hugh, baker, 30 Colquhoun street
Crawford, Thomas, plumber, 20 Sinclair street — house, 4
Crawford, William, 2 William street
Crawford, Miss, dressmaker, 81 Princes street, east
Cree, Mrs, Merlefield, 48 Colquhoun street
Crocket, Mrs, 78 King street, east
Crow, Mrs, Braefoot, 133 King street, east
Cuthill, James, fiesher, 16 Princes street, east
Cuthbertson, John, Cranley Lodge, 32 Charlotte street
Cunningham, John, gardener, 84 Princes street, east
Cunningham, Matthew, joiner, 79 Princes street, east
Currie, Captain Hemy, Helenslee, 21 Suffolk street
Currie, John, cabman, 2 Colquhoun street
Currie, John, Heath field, 12 Montrose street, west

13

Dale, James, 32 Clyde street, east

Dale, Robert, G., Braehead, 13 Montrose street, east

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 55

Da-vidson, John, tailor and clothier, 30 Sinclair st, j house 28
Davidson, Thomas, 111 Clyde street, east
Davidson, Mrs, dressmaker, 1 George street
Davie, Archibald, ploughman, Glenan Farm, Queen street
Davie, Miss, 147 Clyde street, east
Dick, Alexander, Queensmount, Queen street
Dickie, Hugh, teacher, 10 Argyle street, west
Dickie, Robert, confectioner, 3 Sinclair street
Dickson, James, (of Dickson and Yeitch) 42 John street
Dickson, Mrs, 44 Princes street, east
Dickson, Mrs, 97 Clyde street, east

Dickson, Mrs, painter, 16 Sinclair st. — housOj 29 "William st^ ,
Dixon, Robert, baker, 17 Clyde street, west — house, 15
Deas, Mrs, East House, Luss Road
Deans,, John, surfaceman, 40 Princes street^ east
Dempster, Donald, slater, 91 Clyde street^ east
Dempster, Mrs, 39 Clyde street, west
Dewar, Donald, gardener, 1 James street
Dewar, Peter, mate, 4 Charlotte street
Dingwall, John, The Glenan, 29 John street
Dingwall, John, joiner, 27 Colquhoun square
Dingwall, Roderick, 15 Clyde street, west
Docharty, Thomas, labourer, 4 Maitland street
Doddrel^ D. T., Beech wood Villa, 18 Argyle street^ west-
Donald, Archd,, butter and egg merchant, 41 Clyde st., west
Donald, W. Macalister, J.P., of Lyleston, Hawthorn Bank,.

37 Argyle street, east
Donald, Mis;s, Marian Lodge, Queen street
Donaldson, Mrs, P., Lenylea, 33 John street
Donaldson, Mrs, 5 Princes street, east

Dow, John joiner, Pine Grove Cottage, 26 Colquhoun sqr..
Do ward, Charles, Loch view, 8 Suffolk street
Dougal, Mrs John, Hopewell Cottage, 23 Lomond street
Douglas, Mrs, washer and dresser, 104 King street, east
Douglas, Alex., gardener Eastburn Place, 68 King st., east
Doun, Andrew, plumber, 19 Maitland street
Drew, Miss, 19 Lomond street
Drew, Miss, Holly Yilla, 26 Suffolk street.

56 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Drysdale, Archibald, B., Ochil Bank, 13 Montrose si, east
Drjsdale^ Wm., J, P., agent of Union Bank, 18 Colquhounst.
Drysdale, Mrs, Mossgrove, 43 King street, west
Duff, Rev. David, M.A.,L.L.D., Glenan Manse, James street
Dun, Samuel, Fruinfield, 43 Lomond street
Duncan, Mrs, Union Yilla, 48 King street, west
Duncanson, Miss, Bockland Cottage, 30 George street
Dunlop, Robert, Springfield House, 56 John street
Dunlop, William, coal merchant, 31 Princes, street, west —

house, 39
Drummond, William, joiner, 165 Clyde street, east
Drummond, Robert, 5 Colquhoun street
Drumfork Toll— William M'Lellan

Eadie, Mrs, Walton Cottage, 131 Princes street, east
Easton, Mr, Abercromby street

Eastburn School — Miss Davie, teacher, 47 King street, east
Edgar, John, Greenbank Cottage, 87 Princes street, east
Edward, Matthew, Sherwood, 2 Lower Sutherland Crescent
Elder, James, Myrtlebank, 129 King street, east
Elsworth, John, Millerslee Yilla, King street, east
Elliot, Robert, shoemaker, 41 Clyde streetj east — house, 15

Clyde street, west
Eman, John, coal merchant, 19 Colquhoun street — house, 8

Colquhoun square
Ewing, Peter, coal merchant, 13 John st,- — depot, 37 Princes

street, east
Ewing, William, Heath Yilla. 34 William street
Established Church — Rev, John, Lindsay, Clyde street, east
Established School — John Fraser, teacher, Clyde street, east

Eairman, J, A,, Elmbank House, 2 Adelaide street
Falconer, Thomas, J. P., Parkhill, 1 Granville street
Falconer, William, labourer, 51 Sinclair street
Falconer, Miss, 73 Clyde street, west
Ferguson, Andrew B., joiners, 7 Sutherland street
Ferguson, Andrew? painter, 13 Princes street, east

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 07

Ferguson, George, painter, 41 James street
Ferguson, James^ harbour-master^ 25 James street
Ferguson, John, Ebenezer Cottage, 33 William street
Ferguson, Thomas, slater, 18 Charlotte street
Ferguson, Miss, 30 William street
Ferguson, Miss, 64 Clyde street, east
Ferguson, Miss, Baroncroft, 191 Clyde street, east
Ferguson, Miss, 27 King street, west
Ferguson, Miss, 17 Maitland street

Filluel, Charles, fish merchant, 72 Princes st,, east — ho. 68
Finlay, Alexander, clerk, 34 John street
Finlay, Archibald, seaman, 12 Charlotte street
Finlay, Dr James, J, P., Millbrae, 60 Sinclair street
Finlay, Captain, Portland Place^ 32 John stieet
Finlay, Mrs, Mayfield, 156 King street, east
Finlayson, Miss, confectioner, 57 Clyde street, east
Fisher, Daniel, shoemaker, 4 Maitland street
Fisher, Peter, Bonnie Brae, 66 Sinclair street
Fisher, Robert M., teacher of painting and drawing, Well-
croft, 87 Princes street, west
Fisher, Miss, mangle keeper, 63 Princes street, west
Fisher, Miss, Wellcroft, 87 Prii^ces street, west
Fisken, Archibald, Birkhall, 1 Havelock street
Fleming, Mrs, Brownhill, Luss Road
Flint, James, mason, 169 Clyde street, east
Foot, Miss, Bosebank, 84 Princes street, west
Forbes, Mrs, milliner and dressmaker, 1 Sinclair street
Forewell, Henry, druggist. Flower Bank, 68 Clyde st, west
Forrest, Mrs, Flower Bank, 70 Clyde street, west
Forrester, William, plumber, 83 Clyde street, east
Forrester, Mrs, Porton Cottage, 11 Glasgow street
Forsyth, James, slater, 48 Princes street, west
Forsyth, Miss, dressmaker, 19 Maitland street
Forsyth, Mrs, 37 James street
Forsyth, Mrs, 19 Maitland street
Fowler, James, wine and spirit merchant, 27 Clyde street

east — house. Alma Cottage, 24 Lomond street
Fox, William H,, La Belie Villa, 148 King street, eajst

58 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Fraser, James, Imperial Hotel, 19 Clyde street, east

Eraser, John, teaclier, Sea view Place, 16 Argyle street, east

Fraser, Janet, 7 Colqulioun square

Fraser, Miss, 56 Clyde street, west

Fraser, Mrs, Beauly Cottage, 9 Glasgow street

Frame, Jolm, joiner, 10 Princes street, east

Frame, jHelen, fruiterer, 46 Princes street, east

Freebairn, Mrs, jeweller, 40 Clyde street, west

Frew, Jolin, Elmwood Cottage, 18 Montrose street, west

Fubister, Miss, furrier^ 3 John street

Fuller, J. S., 3 King's Crescent

FuUerton, Gavin, Faniie House, 84 Clyde street, west

Fulton, Mrs, Farnie House, 2 Sutlblk street

Fyfe, Miss., Lelrewel, 16 Montrose street, west

Galbraith, Miss, Cora House, 131 King street, east
Galloway, George, Galloway Cottage, 16 Adelaide street
Galloway, George, builder, 12 Sinclair street.
Galloway, John, mason, 71 Princes street, east
Galloway, William, 8 Colquhoun square
Galloway, William, Milton Cottage, 97 Princes street, west
Gardner & Lindsay, grain merchants, 43 Clyde street, east
Gardner, Duncan, veterinary surgeon, 45 Clyde street, east
Gardiner, John, corkcutter, 25 Colquhoun square
Gardner, Catherine, dressmaker, 64 Clyde street, west
Gardiner, Mrs, 8 Princes street, west
Garroway, James, Airdbank, 25 Montrose street, east
Gas Work — Wm. Smith, manager, 88 Princes street, east
Gatenby, William, Temperance Hotel, 4 Clyde street, west
Gemmill, William M,, Rulie, Alma Crescent
Gemmill, Mrs, Bellevue House, 1 Campbell street
Gibb, Dr. G., Lorn House, 79 Clyde street, west
Gibbons, Patrick, photographer, 22 Princes street, west
Gilford, Mark, blacksmith, 26 Sinclair street
Gilchribt, William, baker, 14 Princes street, east
Gilmour, Agnes, grocer, 54 Clyde street, east
Gilmour, Mrs, Edgemount, 3 Havelock street

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 59

Gillies, John^ Glenelg Villa, 23 Montrose street, east
Gillies, William, Heknsburgli and Glasgow Carrier, 69

Princes street, east
Gillies, Margaret, grocer and confectioner, 79 Clyde st., east
Gillies, Mrs, dairy, 85 Clyde street, east
Gillespie, William, engineer, 23 James street
Glen, John, contractor, 41 Princes street, east
Glen^ John, 68 Princes street, west
Glen, William^ Methven Villa^ 34 Clyde street^ east
Glen, Peter, tobacconist, 43 Clyde street, west — house 44
Glen, Mrs, 13 Maitland street
Glen, Mrs, 15 Maitland street

Glover, John, ticket collector, 25 Colquhoun square
Glover, Mrs, dressmaker, 25 Colquhoun square
Good, John, 'mason, 61 King street, east
Goodman, Mrs, 23 William street
Goodwin, Alexander, joiner, 10 Princes street, east
Goodwin^, Mrs, washer and dresser, 40 Princes street, west
Gow, Archibald, Ashburn House, 14 Montrose street, west
Gow, Mrs, Clarkfield House, 13 Campbell street
Gore Booth, Mrs, East Seaside, 68 Clyde street, east
Gordon, Alexander, painter, 93 Clyde street, east
Gordon, James, house painter, 24 James street
Gourlay, Margaret, 19 Lomond street
Govane, Miss, Govane Bank, 15 Glasgow street
Graham, M. C, Huntly Villa, 3 Granville street
Graham, Thomas, 26 Sinclair street
Graham, Miss, 19 Lomond street
Grant, A, W,, 61 Clyde street, west

Grant, James, plumber, 18 Princes street, west — house, 16
Grant, J & R., joiners, 8 Campbell street
Grant, Miss, 7 John street
Grant, Mrs, Sunnyside, 20 King street, east
Grant, Mrs, 16 Princes street, west
Grant, Mrs, 40 John street
Grant, Mrs, 184 Princes street, east
Grantham, Mrs E. H, 64 Clyde street east
Gray, G. W., Ca.risbrook, 50 King street, west

60 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Gray, Miss, 167 Clyde street, east

Gray, Hugh, Braeside, 87 Sinclair street

Gray, James^ Park House 144 King street, east

Gray, John, Easterton, 16 Glasgow street

Gray, William, engine-driver, 130 Princes street, east

Gray, William, railway guard, 15 Lomond street

Gray, Mrs, 10 Princes street, east

Gray, Mrs, Dargeeling, 7 William street

Gray, Mrs, Govane Bank, 15 Glasgow Street

Grain Store, 3 Maitiand street

Grehan, John, police constable, 14 Maitiand street

Greer, George, 2 William street

Ureenlee, John, gardener, 19 Maitiand street

Grierson, John, mason, 59 Sinclair street

Hadfield, Mrs, Oakbank, 13 Suffolk 'street

Hall, Robert H., shoemaker, 38 01. st east— ho. 20 Geo. sfc.

Hamer^ Job, Garden Bank, 9 Granville street

Hamilton, Adam, Baronfrow, Colquhoun street

Hamilton^ Alexander, guard, 28 Colquhoun street

Hamilton, Charles, Oakfield, 199 Clyde street, east

Hamilton, James, 68 Princes street, east

Hamilton, James, Thornton Lodge, 81 Sinclair street

Hamilton, William, contractor, 68 Princes street, east

Hamiiton, Miss, 70 Clyde street, east

Hamilton, Mrs, confectioner, 67 Clyde street, east

Hamilton, Mrs J., 41 Princes street, west

Hamilton, Mrs James, Hayfield, Queen street

Hannah, Mrs Thomas, 8 John street

Hannah, Mrs Thomas, Laurel Green, 60 John street

Harker, Thomas, Springfield Academy, 53 James street

Hart, Mrs, 8 Clyde stree:, east

Harvie, George, chemist, 38 Princes street, east, ho., Kilino.

Cottage, 10 Lomond street
Harvie, Miss, 31 King street, west
Haxton, John, fireman, 46 Princes street, west
Hay, James, wood merchant, 65 Clyde street, west
Hay, Mrs, draper, 1 Princes street, east ; ho. 5

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 61

Hector, Miss^ Yallejfield, 9 Suffolk street

Heggie, Mrs James, 8 Sutherland street

Helensburgh Cemetery — George Combs, gardener

Helensburgh Hospital, North King street

Helensburgh Inn — John Veitch

Helensburgh Public Library, 9 Princes street, east

Henderson, Dr Francis, Seabank, 26 Clyde street, east

Henderson, JameSj John street lane

Henderson, John, dairyman. 32 James street

Henderson, Joseph, boatbuilder, 32 James street

Henderson, William, mason, 37 James street

Henderson, Miss, Eastbank, 4 Hanover street

Henderson, Miss, flesher, 32 Princes street, east

Hendry, Mrs, Glencairn, 4 Stafford street

Hill, Samuel, grocer, 11 John street

Hilien, Miss, dressmaker, 19 Argyle street, west

Hodge, George, N.B.K collector, 64 Clyde street, east

Hodgson, Parker, police sergeant, 4 King street, east

Holdsworth^ John, Clifton Cottage, 29 Argyle street, east

Hoiliss, Charles, 44 Clyde street, west

Houston, Mrs, 1 1 Clyde street, west

Houston, William, 143 Clyde street, east

Hosie, "Russell, blacksmith, 69 Princes street^ east

Hunter, James, baker, 36 Princes street east ; house, 10

Hunter, James, plasterer, 3 King street, west

Hunter, David, Duncairn, North Sutherland street

Hunter, John, house-agent, Park Cottage, 12 Adelaide st.

Hunter, Mrs, 70 Princes street, west

Hutchison, William, gardener, 53 Sinclair street

Hutchison, Miss, Sunny brae, 29 Argyle street, west

Hyndman, William, 61 Sinclair street

Hyndman, Mrs, washer and mangle keeper, 61 Sinclair st,

I
Imperial Hotel — James Eraser, proprietor, 19 Clyde st. east
Industrial School, 11 Grant street
Inglis, John, shoemaker, 42 Princes street west
Ingleton, Miss, teacher of pianoforte, harmonium, guitar^
and singing, 13 William street

62 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Ingram, Thomas, butter and egg store, 15 Clyde street east ;

house, 12 Colquhoun street
Ingram, James, mason, 5 ColquLoun square
Ingram, James, 1 2 Colquhoun street
Ireland^ George, 20 Clyde street, west
Irvine, John, tailor and clothier, 6 Princes street, west ; ho. 4

Jack, John, builder, 65 Clyde street, west

Jack, Mrs A., 60 Princes street, west

Jardino, Bryce, coal merchant, 20 James street

Jardine, James, bootmaker, 40 King street, east

Jardine, Marion, 2 Colquhoun street

Jardine, Mrs, Dovehill, 64 Sinclair street

Jardon, Marion, Queen street

Jamieson, Joseph, flesher, 60 Clyde street, west

Jamieson, William, yachtmaster, 1 7 Lomond street

Jamieson, Miss, Moorlands, Luss Eoad

Jamieson, Mrs Thomas, Jorclonhill, 4 Sutherland street

Jarvie, James, goods clerk, 99 Clyde street, east

Jeffrey, Miss, Torwood Villa, Colquhoun street

Jenkins, Mrs, Devar Cottage, 16 King street, west

Johnston, David, mason, 61 Princes street, west

Johnston, Mrs, 48 Clyde street, east

.Kater, John, joiner, 171 Clyde street, east

Kay, Thomas, Chapelfield House, 33 Argyle street, east

Kettle, Sergeant, 20 George street

Kerr, William, contractor, 21 Colquhoun street

Kerr, Miss, Belle vue House, 76 Clyde street, west

Kerney, Edv/ard, coachman, 39 Clyde street, west

Kerr, John, coachman, 58 John street

Kerr & Bishop, joiners, King street, east

Kerr, Mrs, 126 Princes street, east

Kerr, Hugh, joiner, 130 Princes street, east

Keyden, Thomas, sawyer, 22 William street

Kenny, Captain, 126 King streefc, east

Kelly, John, labourer, 59 Princes street, east

OENEEAL DIRECTORY. 63

Kellj, Mrs, 17 Maitland street

Kennedy, Fergus, 2 Sutherland street

Kennedy, Mrs_, 20 James street

Kenney, Miss, 9 John street

King, John, Yalleyfield, 42 King street, west

King, Mrs, Yalleyfield, 42 King street, west

Kinghorn, James, Windsor Cottage, 201 Clyde street, east

King Street Hall, East King street, James Lennox, keeper

Kinniburgh, Alexander, inspector of poor, and Registrar of

births, marriages, and deaths, 25 Princes street^ east
Kilty, H., gardener, Chapel Acre Lodge, Luss Road
Kirkwood, Miss, Laurel Yilla, 22 Montrose street, west
Kirkwood, Mrs Alexander, Clarefoot, 7 Granville street
Kyle, Andrew, spirit dealer, 151 Clyde street, east

Xi

Laird, Alexander A. , Clyde View, 4 King's Crescent
Lamb, James, Dargeeling, 6 William street
Lamond, Miss, Sunny side^ 18 King Street, west
Lamont, Mrs, Millhill, 73 Sinclair street
Lamont, Hugh, dairyman and carter, 1 4 James street
Lamont, Miss, 45 Princes street, west
Lang, Alexander^ mason, 78 Clyde street, east
Laing, Miss^ Bell view, 110 Princes street, west
Lang, Mrs, Duart Cottage, 1 4 Adelaide street
Larch field Academy — Alexander Mackenzie, M.A.^, head-
master, 35 Colquhoun street
Laurie, James^ carter, 1 2 Sinclair street
Laurie, Thomas, butler, 161 Clyde street^ east
Laurie, Mrs^ 93 Clyde street, east
Law, Mrs, dressmaker, Treesbank, 3 William street
Lay, Miss, 57 King street, west
Leggat, Mrs, Flower Bank, 69 Clyde street, west
Leiper, William, architect, Tertesie, North Sutherland st,.
Lennan, Peter, gardener, 7 Campbell street
Lennox & Chapman, family grocers, 8 Clyde street, west
Lennox, Alexander, Albert Yilla, 2 Staftbrd street
Lennox, George, painter_, 42 Sinclair street
Lsnnox, James, beadle of U.P. Church, 42 Sinclair street

64 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Lennox, Peter, Oakfield, 1 Bell street

Leslie, Captain, 56 Princes street, west

Leslie, Miss, Eden wood, 4 Lower Sutherland crescent

Lindsay, Alexander, Leven Villa, 52 James street

Lindsay, John, contractor, 53 King street, east

Lindsay, John, farmer, Woodend Farm

Lindsay, Rev. John, The Manse, 38 Charlotte street

Lindsay, Miss, Valleyfield, 9 Suffolk street

Lightbody, Thomas, Skerry vore. Alma Crescent

Lightbody, Mrs, 193 Clyde street, east

Litster, Mrs, 23 James street

Little, Mrs, draper^ 65 Clyde street, east ; ho, 71

Livingston, John, grocer, 59 Clyde street, east

Livingston, Mrs, washer and dresser, 78 King street, east

Livingston, Mrs, Ardvuela, Queen street

Lorimef, Mrs, 18 Colquhoun square

Lochhead, John, Ronbank^ 3 King's Crescent

Love, Robert, mason, 84 Princes street, east

Lyon, James, mason, 7 Colquhoun street

Macduff, Peter, Hayfield Cottage, 92 King street, east
Macfarlane, Mrs, Stewart Green, 30 Lomond street
MacGoun, Misses, Killearn Lodge, 11 Granville street
Macindoe, Mrs W., Albion Cottage, 8 Lomond street
Mackay, James, carter, 1 1 Maitland street
Mackay, John, mason, 50 Princes street, west
Mackay, Martin, Osborne Villa, 52 Grant street
Mackay, Mrs, 15 Maitland street
Mackenzie, Alexander, M.A., Larohfield Academy, 36 Col^

quhoun street
Mackenzie, John, tailor, 8 Glenfinlas street
Mackie, Charles, Milton Cottage, 95 Princes street, west
Mackie, William, Park View Cottage, 18 Adelaide street
Macleod, Donald, tailor and clothier, 87 Clyde street, east
Macneur, Alexander, bookseller, 19 Clyde street, west — ho, 20
Mainds, William, painter, 18 Sinclair street
Mair, George, teacher, Galloway Cottage, Colquhoun street
Malcolm, William, Mossbank House, 18 Suffolk street

GE!i)ERAL DIRECTORY B&

Malcolm, Miss, teacher, Industrial School, 1 1 Grant street

Malcolm, Mrs, Sunnybrae, 29 Argyle street, west

Marquis, Miss, Argyle Park, 42 James street

Marshall, Robert, Birkfell, 30 Charlotte street

Marshall, William, Cora House, 129 King street, east

Marsland, Sergeant James, 19 George street

Martin, Joseph Russell, 85 Clyde street, west

Martin, Matthew, Bath House, 137 Princes street, east

Martin, Miss, Bath House, 137 Princes street, east

Martin, Miss, Christina, 9 John street

Martin, Miss, Greenburn Lodge, 24 Clyde street, east

Mason, Miss, Woodland Place, 126 King street, east

Mathieson, Mrs, Glendarroch House, 37 John street

Maxwell, Mrs, 34 Princes street, west

Meikle, John, 52 Princes street, east

Meldrum, George^ painter, 14 Maitland street

Melville, Robert, mason, 23 James street

Mel vine, Mrs, 44 Clyde street, west

Menzies, Miss, 177 Clyde street, east

Messer, Dr. Fordyce, surgeon, 9 William Street

Middlemiss, Joseph, blacksmith, 41 Princes street, west

Miller, David, gardener, ]. Glasgow street

Millar, David, builder, 159 -Clyde street, east

Miller, Dr John, Bute Cottage^ 7 Lower Sutherland Cresnti

Millar, James, carver and gilder, 3 Princes st., east — ho., 10

Millar, John, labourer, 19 Maitland street

Millar, William, Wellington Lodge, 19 Montrose street, east

Millar, Miss, „ 19 „

Millar, Miss, 9 Sutherland street

Miller, Miss, dress and cloakmaker, 27 Colquhoun street

Miller, Miss, Clarkfield House, 13 Campbell street

Millar, Mrs T,, bookseller 11 Princes street, east

Millar, Mrs, 20 Colquhoun street

Millig Mill, 70 Sinclair street — Lachlan M'Lachlan

Millig Toll— William Brock, Luss Road

Milk Shop — Mrs Dow, 4 Colquhoun street

Mirrlees, Miss, Burnshill, 15 Granville street

Missionary Hall and Penny Savings Bank, 22 Colquhoun sqi:*.

66 GENERAL DIRECTORY

Mitchell, David, 10 Princes street, west

Mitchell, George, Blairkip, 17 Glenfinlas street

Mitchell, John, grocer, 2 Sinclair street — house, Brooklee, 13

Granville street
Mitchell, Miss, Millerslee Villa, King street, east
Mitchell, Miss, 4 Princes street, west
Mitchell, Mrs, Locksley, Abercromby street
Moir, Mrs, fishmonger, 25 Clyde street, west — house, 39
Montgomery, William, farmer, Laigh Stuck, Bell street
Monteith, Adam, Eastbank, 2 Hanover street
Moody, Miss, 30 John street
Morris, Mrs, baker, 37 Clyde street, west
Morris, Mrs, mangle keeper, 21 Maitland street
Morrison, Miss, 161 Clyde street, east
Morrison, Mrs George, 55 Princes street, west
Morton, Miss, 21 Colquhoun square

Muir, Robert, draper, 56 Princes street, east — house, Hazel-
wood, Alma Crescent
Muirhead & Peddie, painters, 2 i Princes street, east
Muirhead, Pobert, painter, Maitland street
Muirhead, Mrs, 84 Princes street, east
Munroe, Alexander, gardener, 72 Princes street, west
Murphy, John, scavengar, 19 Maitland street
Murdoch, John, Dalblair, 10 Granville street
Murdoch, Misses, ladies' boarding school. Ash mount, Millig

street, west
Murray, Donald, joiner, 12 King street, east — house, 14
Murray, Patrick, joiner, 20 King street, east — house, 84

Princes street, east
Murray Robert, Woodhill, 2 Upper Sutherland crescent
Murray, Thomas, water inspector, 12 Colquhoun street
Murray, Miss, 9 John street
Murray, Mrs, 25 Maitland street
Murray, Mrs, stoneware and china warehouse, 22 Clyde

street, east
Murrie, John, blacksmith, 27 Colquhoun square
Muter, "William, grocer, 10 Princes street, west
Mylius, Major Rodney, Dalglennan Cottage, John st. lane

<JENERAL DIRECTORY. 67.,

M'Allister, Angus, colporteur, 137 Clyde street, east

M'Allister, John, joiner, 30 John street

McAllister, Mrs, 40 Clyde street, east

-M Arthur, Peter, gardener, 3 King street, west

M 'Arthur, Mrs, dairy, 15 Princes street, east

M'Aulay, Alexander, Eastbank Cottage, 205 Clyde st, east

M'Aulay, Captain, Eastburn House, 93 Clyde street, east

M'Aulay, Frank, gardener, 19 Maitland street

M''Aulay, James, boat hirer, 4 Colquhoun square

MAulay, Mrs, 9 George street

MAuslan, Misses, laundresses, 66 Princes street, west

MAuslan, Mi-s A., 108 Princes street, west

M'Auslan, Mrs, wine and spirit merchant, 89 Clyde st., east

M*Auslane, Archibald, Park Cottage, 1 King's Crescent

M'Auslane, James, farmer, Kirkmichael, Cemetery Road

M'Auslane, Robert, shoemaker, 18 Maitland street

M'Auslane, Miss, Enmore, 135 King street, east

M^Auslane, Miss, Sunnybrae, 11 Suffolk street

M'Auslane, Mrs, Woodside Place, 4 Sutherland street

M'Bean, Lachlan, Findhorn, Queen street

M 'Bride, Archibald, 4 John street

M'Cabe, John, coal merchant, 78 King street, east

M'Cafer, Miss, washer and mangle keeper, 17 Maitland st.

M'Callum, Daniel, Methven Villa, 34 Clyde street, east

M'Callura, Donald, Fairbank, 24 Argyle street, west

M'Callum, Donald, tailor, 20 King street, west

M'Callum, Donald, grocer, 55 Clyde street, east; ho. 54

M'Callum, Peter, Sunny side Cottage, 50 John street

M'Callum, Peter, painter, 27 Colquhoun square

M'Callum & Sons, drapers, 5 Clyde street, east

M'Callura, M. & C, milliners, 7 Clyde street, west

M'Callum, Mrs P., 7 Clyde street, east

M'Callum, Mrs, 63 Sinclair street

M'Callum, Mrs, washer-woman, 47 Princes street, east

M'Candy, Mrs, 49 King street, east

M'Clure, Robert, Verreville, 50 James street

M'CoU, Alexander, miller, 70 Sinclair street

6S GENERAL DIRECTORY.

M^CoU, Duncan, joiner, 21 James street

M^Coll;, Jolin, joiner, 44 Princes street, west

M'Coll, Mrs, Fountain Bank, 67 Sinclair street

M'CoU, Mrs, 17 William street

M'Connel, David, Roseneath post, 22 James street

M'Oonnell, Thomas, ironmonger, 10 Sinclair street; lio, 12

M'Corkindale, George, carter, 93 Princes street, east

M'Cormick, Mrs, washer-woman, 19 Maitland street

M'Crae, Kenneth, confectionerj 82 Princes street, east

M'Cree, Miss, 19 Maitland street .

M'Culloch^ J. "W,, & Son, painters, 29 Princes street, east

M'CuUoch, J. W., painter, 58 Clyde street, west

M'Culloch, John C, WoodLurn House, 39 John street

M'Culloch, Wm. L., Laurel Cottage_, 102 Princes street, w.,

M'Dermid, Margaret, 10 John street

McDonald, Archibaldy yachtsman, 39 Clyde street, east

M'Donald, D. R,, restaur?ait, 58 Princes st., east — house, 60

M'Donald, John, cabinet-maker, .93 Princes street, east

McDonald, Lachlan, carter, 11 Maitland street

M'Donald, Eoberfc P., 7 George street

M'Donaldj Ronald, gardener, 63 Sinclair street

M'Donald, Miss, 57 Clyde street, east

M'Donald, Miss, West Bay, 81 Clyde street^ west

M'Donald, Mrs, 44 Clyde street, west

M'Dougal, Alexander, collar-maker, 40 Clyde street, east

M'Dougal, John, gardener, 32 Colquhoun street

M'Dougal, John, 122 Princes street, east

M'Dougal, John, green grocer, 33 Clyde street, east

M'Dougal, Miss, 4 Charlotte street

M'Dougal, Mrs, Ardbeg Cottage, 50 Grant street

M'Dougal, Mrs, 24 Colquhoun street

M'Dougal, Mrs, Cora House, 129 King street, east

M'Ewan, Henry, plasterer, 53 Sinclair street

M'Ewan, James, Brackenhill Cottage, 32 Lomond street

M'Ewan, Thomas, maKSon, 3 King street, west

M'Ewan, M. & W., milliners and dressmakers, 2 Col. st,

M'Ewan, Miss, Ardmore, 72 Clyde street, east

M^Ewan, Mibs, Berlin Wool Repository, 9 Sinclair street

QEJfERAL DIEECTORT. 69

M'Farlan©, Alexander, gardener, 189 Clyde street, east

M'Farlane, Andrew, shoemaker, 77 Clyde street, east .

M'Farlane, Andrew, gardener, 19 Maitiand street

M'Farlane, Duncan, 75 Clyde street, east

M'Farlane, John, joiner, 2 John street

M'Farlane, Malcolm, shoemaker, 14 Charlotte street

M'Farlane, B-. S., grain merchant, 2 Clyde street, east ; ho^

4 Sinclair street
M'Farlane, Robert, Rowanbrae, 19 Charlotte street
M'Farlane, Miss, dressmaker, 42 Clyde street, east
M'Farlane, Miss, Dailnabruich Cottage_, 8 Argyle st., east.
M'Farlane, Mrs, 6 Maitiand street
M'Farlane, Mrs, 15 Maitiand street
M'Farlane, Mrs, Claremont House, 15 Suffolk street
M'Garigal, Hugh, labourer, 39 Clyde street, west
M'Gilp^ Miss, Rosebank Terrace, 82 Princes street, west,
M 'Gil vary, Mrs, 191 Clyde street, east
M'Ginnes, Patrick, labourer, 6 Clyde street, west
M'Gregor, Gregor, mason, 39 James street
M'Gregor_, Gregor, mason, 47 King street, east
M'Gregor, John, J.P., Bonnyton, 1 Upper Sutherland crest,
M'Gregor, John, Ardshiel, Millig street, west
M'Gregor, Robert, Ettrick Bank, 85 Clyde street
M'Gregor, Mrs,. 8 Glenfinlas street
M'Haffie, James, 110 Princes street, west
M'Haffie, Mrs, Belmont, Millig street, east
M'Innes, Robert, shoemaker, 10 John street
M'Innes, Thomas, gardener, 1 6 Maitiand street;
M'Intosh, Mrs, 173 Clyde street east

M'Intyre, Duncan, gardener, Hermitage, 76 Sinclair street'
M'Intyre, John, Cawdor Lodge, Luws Road
M 'Isaac, Hugh, mason, 30 John street
M 'Isaac, John, sawyer, 61 Sinclair street
M 'Isaac, Mrs, Heath Cottage, 4 Sutherland street
M'Kay, James, joiner, 24 Jame« street
M'Kay, William, 75 Clyde street east
M'Kay, Miss, dress and cloakmaker, 19 James street
M'Kecbnie, Angus, bootmaker^ 48 Sinclair etreet

70 GENERAL DIRECTOBy.

M'Keclmie, William, dairyman, 24 Sinclair street

M'Kechnie, William, barman, 26 Sinclair street

M'Kenzie, George^ plasterer, 24 Maitland street

M'Kenzie, Mrs, 34 John street

M'Kellar, John, gardener, 78 King street, east

M'Killop, Archibald, carter, 53 Sinclair street

M'Killop, George, saddler, 40 Clyde street,, east

M'Kim, Adam, bookseller, 46 Clyde street, we&t

M'Kimb, James. 63 Princes street, east

M'Kinlay, Duncan, contractor, 28 Princes street, west

M'Kinlay, Wm,, plumber, 51 Clyde street, east— house, 53

M'Kinlay, Mrs, 22 James street

M'Kinlay, Mrs 34 Clyde street, west

M'Kirdy, James, plumber, 157 Clyde street, east

M'Lachlan, David S., baker, 73 Clyde street, east

M'Lachlan, George, writer, 6 Princes street, east — house,

Blairlomond, 6 Stafford street
M'Lachlan, Henry, painter, 3 King street, west
M'Lachlan, Hugh, railway porter, 68 King street, east
M^Lachlan, Hugh, mason, 20 George street
M'Lachlan, James, mason, 78 King street, east
M'Lachlan, Lachlan, baker, 3 Clyde street, east — house, 1

Colquhoun square
M'Lachlan, William, farmer, High Stuck, Bell street
M'Lachlan, Mary, 22 James street
M'l^achk'.n, Mrs, 78 King street, east
M'Lachlan, Mrs, 27 Princes street, east
M'Lachlan, Mrs W,, Glenmore, 28 Campbell street
M'Laren, Alexander, Millfield, 83 Sinclair street
M'Laren, John, joiner, 32 Clyde street, west
M'Laren, Miss, 1 Maitland street
M'Laren, Mrs, dressmaker, 32 Clyde street, west
M'Laurin, Miss, 32 King street, west
M'Lean, Alexander, joiner, 16 Colquhoun street
M'Lean, Donald, grocer, 74 Princes street, east — house, 76
M'Lean, John D, L., Edenbank, 102 Colquhoun street
M'Lean, Miss, furnishing shop, 4 Princes street, east
M'Lean, Miss, dressmaker, 24 Colquhoun street

GENERAL DIRECTORY, 71

M;,Lellan Paniel, 45 Clyde street, east

M'Lellan, Donald, lorryman, 99 Clyde street, east

M'Lellan, Duncan^ A.nnock Bank, 15 Montrose street, east

M'Lellan, Miss, East Woodeiid House, 35 Argyle st., east

M'Leod, Donald, tailor, 15 Maitland street

M'Leod, Gabriel, gardener, 26 Sinclair street

M'Leod, John, beadle, 76 King street, east

M'Leod, Miss, dressmaker, 26 Sinclair street

M'Leod, Miss, dressmaker, 15 Maitland street

M'TiCod, Miss, dressmaker, 99 Clyde street, east

M'Leod, Mrs, 56 Clyde street, east

M'Leod, Mrs, 53 Sinclair street

M'Leod^ Mrs, 12 Glenfinlas street

M'Master, James, mason, 10 Colquhoun street

M'Millan, Hamilton, spirit merchant, 32 Princes street, west

— house, 23 James street
M'Menemy, Peter, dairyman, 90 King street, east
M'Lellan, Adam, ironmonger^ 9 Clyde st., east — house, 11
M'Menemy, Peter, grain mercht, 26 Princes st. east. ho. 43
M'Menemy, Thomas, tobacconist, 42 Princes street, east — ^

house^ 76
M^Micking, Thomas, J. P., Burnbrae, Campbell street
M'Millan, Daniel, Pinelea, 11 Montrose street, east
M'Millan, Dougal, grocer, 55 Sinclair street
M'Millan, George^ gardener, 76 Clyde street, east
M'Millan, Miss, Woodcliff, 5 Lower Sutherland Cresent
M'Millan, Mrs, Ivy House, 77 Clyde street, west
M' Munich, Daniel, blacksmith, 123 Clyde street, east
M'Nab, Mrs, Greenbank, 15 Campbell street
M'Nair, William, family grocer, 9 Clyde street, west ; house

Willowburn Cottage, 10 Glasgow, street
M'^Naught^ Alexander, baker, 99 Clyde street, east
M'Naught, Archibald, farmer, 130 King street, east
M'Naughton, John, dairyman and carter, 35 James street
M'Nee, John, 4 Sinclair street
M'Neil, Hugh, carter, 24 James street
M'Neil, John, joiner, 19 Maitland street
M'I:^icol, Alexander, bootmaker, 14 Clyde street, east

72 GENERAL DIRECTORY,

M'Nicol, John, joiner, 157 Clyde street, east

M'Nicol, John, baker 131 Clyde street, east — house, 4

Charlotte street
M'Mcol, Robert, J. P.,- 6G Clyde street, east
M'^Pherson, Daniel, slater, 24 Maitland street
M'Pherson, Malcolm, painter, 21 Colquhoun square
M'Pherson, Malcolm mason, 19 Maitland street
M'Pherson, William, gardener, 29 King street, west
M'Pherson & Carson, painters, 1 9 Colquhoun square.
M'Pherson, Mrs, 77 Princes street, east
M'Pherson, Mrs, Ashens, 56 King street, east
M'Pherson, Mrs, 71 Clyde street
M'Pherson, Mrs, 18 Colquhoun square
M'Phun, W. K, Maryfield, 17 Campbell street
M'Skimmon, Captain, 126 King street, east
M'Taggart, Miss, dressmaker, 30 John street
M'Yey, Miss, 17 William street
M'Vey, Miss, 19 Maitland street

Nairn, John, Roselea Cottage, 52 King street, west

Napier, James A., Omaha, Abercromby street

Napier, Mrs, 61 Clyde street, west

National Bread Company, 17 Colquhoun squa,re

Neil, Henry, gardener, 14 Maitland street

Neil, Mrs David, Hillside Cottage, t Montrose street, west

Neilly, Richard, basketmaker 26 Sinclair street

Neilson, Mrs, washer and dresser, 37 Jamea street

Nelson, Robert, 77 Sinclair street

Nicol, Miss, Kintyre Villa, ladies' boarding school, 25 Char-
lotte street

Newlands, Thomas, beadle, 25 Colquhoun square

Niyen, James, landscape gardener, 64 King street, east

Niven, Mrs, 107 Clyde street, east

Nimmo, John, baker, 3 John street

Noble, John, mason, 132 Princes street, east

North British Insurance Office, 50 Princes street, east-
William Battrum, agent

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 73

Notman, Mrs Robert, Colquhoun Villa, 31 ColquLoun street

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Oddfellows' Hall, 28 Colquhoun square

Ogilyie, Mrs, 1 James street

Ogston, Mrs, Glenorchy Yilla^ 22 Adelaide street

Oliphant, Miss, Sunnybrae, 11 Suffolk street

Orme, William, butter, ham, and egg mercha-nt, 8: Sinclair

street ; house, 68 Princes street, east
Orr, Andrew, labourer, 22 James street
Orr, William, Ardenlade, Abercromby street
Orr J E,. D., J. P., banker, 12 James street
Orr, Mrs James, Park House, 24 George street
Orr, Mrs, Lauder Villa, 154 King street, east
Orr, Mrs Robert, Baltimore Lodge, 20 Montrose stree-t, weat
Osborne, Thomas, carter, 10 Colquhoun street
Oswald, AndreWj J,P., Glennan Bank, 26 Campbell street
O'Neil, Michael, gardener, 46 Princes street, west
O'Rake, Barney, labourer, 6 Clyde street, west
Oughterson_, Miss, Dahlbeg, 86 Clyde street, west
Owler, Mrs, 34 John street

Park, Alexander, 42 Princes street, west
Park, Thomas, slater, 42 Princes street, west
Park Free Church, 15 Charlotte st, — Rev. W. H. Carsl^w
Parker, James, Underwood, 8 Sutherland crescent lower
Parlane, Mrs, umbrella and staymaker, 29 Clj'-de street, west
Paterson, George, Dunfillan, 31 Montrose street, east
Paterson, John, mason, 78 King street, east
Paterson, Joseph, mason, 65 Sinclair street
Paterson, William, mason, 53 Sinclair street
Paterson, William, saddler, 5 Princes street, east
Paterson, & Son, upholsterers, 52 Clyde street, west ; ho. 5S
Paterson, Mrs, refreshment rooms, 37 Clyde street, east
Paterson, Miss, teacher, 18 Sinclair street
Paterson, Miss, 56 Princes street, west
Paterson, Misses, Holm Glen, 28 George street
Patterson, R. J. B,, Dallglennan Lodge, 44 James" street

74 GENERAL DIRECTORT

Patterson, Wra., tailor and clothier, 35 Clyde st., w ; ho 34

Patterson, Mrs J. B,, Dallglennan Lodge, 44 James street

Paton, James, 5 George street

Pat on, John, 1 1 George street

Paton, John, bootmaker, 8 Maitland st. — ho, 12 Clyde st., e

Paton, William, gardener, 8 Princes street, east

Paton, Mrs, 42 King street, east

Paton, Mrs, 101 Princes street, west

Paton, Mrs, Blairburn Villa, 104 Princes street, west

Patrie, John, butler, 76 Clyde street^ east

Parochial Board Office, 25 Princes street, east — William
Kinnibnrgh, inspector and registrar of the parish

Paul, Mrs, 19 Maitland street

Pearson, John, Bloomfield, 33 Lomond street

Peat, Misses, day school, Barwood, 7 Montrose street, east

Peddie, William, fruiterer, 70 Princes street, east

Peddie, William, gardener, 157 Clyde street, east

Pender, Miss, 66 Princes street, west

Perrit, William, Byron Cottage, 96 Princes street, west

Pefctit, Alfred, joiner, toy and china mercht., 13 Clyde st., e.

Pettit, Wm. A,, printer, bookseller, and house-agent, 6 Sin-
clair street

Phillips, James, Posebank Cottage, 12 Campbell street

Pianoforte and Music Warehouse^ 7 Sinclair st. — William.
Battrum

Plowright, Miss, 79 Princes street, east

Police Office, 31 Princes street, east — John Anderson, supt.

Pollock, James, grocer, 94 King street, east

Pollock, Robert, Cornwall House, 62 John street

PoUok, Robert, 197 Clyde street, east

Ponds, James, spirit merchant, 3 Clyde street, west — house,
Whinbrae, 66 King street, east

Porter, Clement, upholsterer, 14 Princes street, west ; ho., 16

Porter, Miss, milliner, 26 Clyde street, west

Post Office, 9 Princes st., east — Wm., Bryson, post-master

Potter, Mrs, Auchentiel, Suffi)lk street

Printing Office, 52 Princes street, east — William Battrum

Printing Office, 9 Colquhoun street — William Campbell

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 76

Printing Office, 4 Sinclair street — William A. Pettit
Primrose, Thomas, Hawthorn Hill, 54 Grant street
Proud foot, Miss, Egremount, 36 Charlotte street
Provan, Andrew, bookseller, 48 Princes street, east — house,

19 James street
Purvis, T. A., station-master, 142 King street, east
Purvis, William, carter, 13 Maitland street

Queen's Hotel, 74 Clyde street, east — Alex. Williamson

Jute

E^ilway Station, 39 Princes street, east — T. A, Purvig,

station-master
Ramsay, James, florist, V2 Princes street, west — house. Wood*

end Nursery, 9 Montrose street, west
Ramsay, Mrs, Hopewell Cottage, 25 Lomond street
Ramsay, Miss, dressmaker, 9 Montrose street, west
Rankin, James, 182 Princes street, east
Rankin, John, barber, 49 Clyde street, east
Rankin, Mrs, Main Cottage, 45 Princes street, east
Rathbone, Mrs, laundress and mangle keeper, 14 Glenfinlas st
Readman, James, St Leonards, 17 Montrose street, east
Reid, Alex,, plumber, 20 Clyde street, west
Reid, D. S., chemist, 28 Clyde street, west — house, Hartree,

James street
Reid, Dr. Douglas, Easterton House, 89 Clyde street, west
Reid, "Rev. S. W., Rockfort Place, Clyde street, east
Reid, William, plumber and gasfitter, 23 Princes street, east

— house, Dhuhill, Luss Road
Reid, Mrs, Anchorage, 20 Suffolk street
Reid, Mrs, refreshment rooms, 1 Clyde street, Qast
Reid, Miss, 4 Sinclair street
Renfrew, Miss, 172 Princes street, east
Rennards, J. R,, apothecary, 55 Clyde street, east ; house 59
Rennie, Mrs, 19 Maitland street
Rennie, Mrs Wm„ Welcroft, John street
Rhodes, Mrs, 8 Clyde street, east
Rifle Volunteer Drill Hall, 5 Colquhoun street

76 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Rintoul, Andrew, Rockbank, 82 Clyde street, east

Risk, Mrs, Elm wood, 18 Glasgow street

Ritchie, Miss, Rosemount Cottage^ 5 Argyle street, east

Robb, David, Maitland street

Robb, Hamilton, mason, 12 Argjle street, east

Robb, John, mason, 42 Princes street, west

Roberts, William B., Woodlee, 22 Argyle street, wesfe

Robertson_, Andrew C, Woodend House, Miilig street,, east

Robertson, David, bootmaker, 10 John street

Robertson, David, gardener, 52 Princes street, east

Robertson, David, mason, 40 Clyde street, east

Roberston, James, Elm Park, 3 Lower Sutheriajid crescent

Robertson, James, North wood, Luss Road

Robertson, James, mason, 9 John street

Robertson, J, C, Eastwood Honse, 211 Clyde street, east

Robertson, J, S., excise officer^ 99 Clyde street,. §ast

Robertson, John, mason, 78 King street, east

Roberti^on, Matthew, Annsfield, 10 Montrose street, west

Robertson, Thomas, joiner, 99 Clyde street, east

Robertson, William, tailor, 68 King street, east

Robertson, Miss, confectioner, 69 Clyde street, east

Robertson, Miss, Ardmore, 71 Clyde street, west

Robertson, Miss, Annat Lodge, 85 John street

Robertson, Mrs, 24 Maitland street

Robertson, Mrs, Blairburn House, 6 Montrose street, west

Robertson, Mrs, dairy, 3 Sutherland street

Robertson, Mrs, Elm Park, 3 Lower Sutherland crescent

Robley, Harrington, Carleton, Miilig street, west

Rodger, James, carter, 42 Princes street, west

Rodger, John, carter and dairyman, 7 Lomond street

Rodger, William, 32^ Sinclair street — house, 34

Ronald, Mrs_, Dover Cottage, 2Q King street, west

Roper, Mary, 17 Maitland street

Ross, David, coachman, 9 Adelaide street

Ross, James, watchmaker, 16 Clyde street, west

Ross, John, mason, Q5 Princes street, west

Jioss, William, bill-poster, 53 Sinclair street

Ross, Miss, dressmaker, 53. Sinclair street

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 77

Ross, Misses, milliners and dressuiakers, 43 Princes st,, west

Eowson, Rev. S, B., R,C.O., 62 King street, east

Roy, Gabriel, watchmaker, 21 Clyde street, west — house, 2

James street
Rumgay, James, joiner, 79 Princes street, east
Russell, Wm., coal meicliant, 3D Princes street, east — house^

36 Princes street, west
Russell, Mrs, 18 Clyde street, east
Russell, M, C, confectioner, 48 Clyde street, west
Ruthven, John, saddler, 10 Maitland street

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Samuel, Miss, Dunbeg, 48 James street

Scott, Mrs James, 82 Clyde street, west

Scott, Mrs, 9 John street

Scoular, William, Leewood Villa, 112 Princes street, west

Sellers, Peter, gardener, 181 Clyde street, east

Sellers, Miss, 137 Princes street, east

Service, Neil, joiner, 69 Princes street, east

Service, H. & M., dressmakers^ 18 Princes sttefet, east

Service, Janet, 12 John street

Service, Mary, 4 Maitland street

Service, Mrs, 117 Princes street, east

Service, Mrs, refreshment rooms, 14 Clyde street, Vest

Service, Mrs, 153 Clyde street, east

Service, Mrs, 10 Clyde sti*eet, east

Shanks, Miss, Burnside House, 22 Campbell street

Shanks, Mrs, 39 Princes street, west

Sharp, James, Ardenciutha, 11 Adelaide street

Sharp, Thomas, butcher, 66 Princes street, east

Sharp, William, Glenfeulan, Millig street, east

Shaw, William, grocer and spirit merchant, 1 4 Sinclair st,

— house, 18 Colquhouti square
Shaw, William, 59 King street, west
Shearer, James, 68 Princes street, east
Shearer, William, 72 King street, east
Shearer, Miss, 1 George street
Shields, William, joiner, 4 Glasgow street

78 GENEI^AL DIRECTORY.

Short, George, shoemaker, 4 John street

Shoemakers Workshop, 19 Princes st,, east — R. Stevenson

Sinclair, Mrs, 68 King street, east

Skene, Mrs J,, 1 Montrose street, west

Skimming, Alexander, cartwright, 79 Sinclair street

Sloan, Charles, Springfield Cottage^ 61 James street

Sloan, Dr. S., M'Master's Cottage, 170 King street, ea,st

Sloan, Miss, Craigie Lea, 4 Argyle street, west

Slorance, George, gardener, 23 Maitland street

Smellie, Miss, E.llangowan, 50 Colquhoun street

Smith, Alexander^ gardener, 31 William street

Smith, Alexander, i4 Clyde street, west

Smith, Captain M. H., Beaulah Lodge, 39 Colquhoun street

Smith, David, plumber, 10 Argyle, street, east

Smith, David, mason, 23 Maitland street

Smith, James, Methill Field, 63 James street

Smith, John, Hermitage, 76 Sinclair street

Smithy Patrick, Westfield, 17 Glasgow street

Smith, Robert, gardener, 40 Clyde street, east

Smith, Robert, mason, 4 Maitland street

Smith, William, Fernbank, 21 Montrose street, east

Smith, Wm.;, baker, 30 Princes st., west — ho. 16 James st.

Smith, Miss, Payta Villa, Sutherland street, north

Smith, Miss, 1 George street

Smith, Miss, The Baths, 72 Clyde street, east

Smith, Mrs, grocer, 133 Clyde st., east — ho., 6 Charlotte st.

Smith, Mrs, 24 James street

Smith, Mrs, Rossdhu Villa, 28 King street, west

Smith, Mrs, 19 Lomond street

Smith, Mrs, 121 Princes street, east

Smith, Mrs, Giffnock House, 204 Princes street, east

Smith, Mrs, bootmaker, 13 Sinclair street

Smith, Mrs, mangle-keeper, 57 Sinclair street

Snell, Miss, Rossdhu Villa, 30 King street, west

Snodgrass, Andrew, boot and shoemaker, 2 Princes st,, east

Snodgrass, James, Maitland street

Snodgrass, Matthew, farmer. East Millig Farm, Millig st,, e

Somerville, James, Carron Bank, Millig street, west

GENERAL DIRECTORY. 7»

Somerville, James, grocer, 82 King street, east
Soraerville, Mrs, 128 Clyde street, east

Spalding James^ writer and insurance agent, 44 Princes st., e.
Spence, James, gardener, Ardvuela, Queen street
Spence, William, Ardlui, 23 Charlotte street
Spence, Mrs, 32 Clyde street, west
Speirs, Wm,, barber, 26 Maitland street — house, 14
Spratt, Miss, Springvale Cottage, 97 Princes street, east
Springfield Academy, 51 James st; Thomas Harker, master
Sproul, Matthew, book deliverer, 16 Princes street, west
Spy, Andrew, coal merchant, 19 Sinclair street, house, 12
Spy, Robert, letter carrier and coal mercht., ] 0 Princes st., w,
St Michael and All Angles Church, William street, Rev, J^

S, Syme, Incumbent
Stables and Coachhouse; Argyle st., w. — D. Black, cab-hirer
Stamp and Tax Oifice, 44 Princes st., east — James Spalding

distributor and collector
Stephen, Mrs, 40 Clyde street, east

Steven, Thomas^ J. P., Ardlui House, 5 Montrose street, east
Stevenson, Charles, porter, 99 Clyde street, east
Stevenson^ John^ coachman, 82 Clyde street, east
Stevenson, Robert, plasterer, 110 King street, east
Stevenson, Robert, boot and shoemaker, 78 Princes st,, e,, and

38 Clyde street, west — house, 76 Princes street, east
Stewart, Adam, labourer, 1 Adelaide street
Stewart, Alexander, Collinslee^ 5 Havelock street
Stewart^ Captain Wm., Sea view Place, 18 Argyle street, east
Stewart, Christopher, saddler, 16 Glenfinlas street
Stewart, Donald, carter, 4 Maitland street
Stewart, Edward, Westwood Yilla, 20 Argyle street, west
Stewart, Peter, mason, 26 Sinclair street
Stewart, Walter, Glenan, Queen street
Stewart, William, photographer^ 61 Princes street^ east
Stewart, Miss, millinei-, 80 Princes street, east
Stewart, Mrs, 02 Princes street, west
Stewart, Mrs, Greenoak, 33 Argyle street, west
Stewart, Mrs, East Thorn, 8 Adelaide street
Stirling, James, J. P., Rockend House, 76 Clyde sti;«et, east

80 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Stirling, William, tailor^ 14 Maitland street

Stirling, Mrs, Woodland Place, 124- King street, east

Stirling, Mrs, draper. 20 Maitland street— house, 14

Stirrat, Mrs, 152 King street, east

Stoker, Archibald, ploughman, Glenan Farm, Queen street

Storerj James, 35 William street

Strachan, Mrs, 14 Maitland street

Strath, David, saddler, 26 Sinclair street

Stuart, John, Thistle Bank, 22 Charlotte street

Sutherland, John, shoemaker, 16 Charlotte street

Suttie, Mrs A., 13 Clyde street, west

Swan, Mrs, Oakbank, 12 Argyle street, west

Swanson, William, boot and shoemaker, 63 Clyde street, east

Sword, John, Methven Villa, 34 Clyde street, east

Syme, Kev, J. Stuart, Parsonage, 16" William street

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Tait William, Netherlee, 53 King street, west

Taitj Miss, 75 Princes street, east

Taylor Robert j surveyor, 24 William street

Taylor, William, joiner, 179 Clyde street, east

Taylor, William, joiner 53 Clyde street, east

Taylor, Wm., M. Rosebank Terrace^ 10 Campbell street

Taylor, Miss, Sunny brae, 29 Argyle street, west

Teacher, William, Rockfort House, 84 Clyde street, east

Telfer, James, florist and fruiterer, 30 Princes street, east —

house, 9 Adelaide street
Temperance Hall, 5 Maitland street
Temperance Hotel, 4 Clyde street, west — Wm. Gatenby
Temperance Hotel, 60 Princes street, east — Mrs Sharp
Templeton, James, Drumgarve, 31 John street
Thomson, Alexander, plumber, 2 James street
Thomson, Alexander, Balmoral Cottage, 2 Bell street
Thomson, James, J. P., Fairfield, Luss Road
Thompson, James, Grange, 24 Suffolk street
Thomson, John, Woodneuck, 58 King street, west
Thomson, Peter, spirit merchant, 86 Princes st,, e ; ho. 84
TKomson, Robert, boatbmlder, 59 Princes street^ west

Glt»fERAL DIRECTORY, 81

Thomson, R & J, drapers, 50 Clyde street, west
Thomson, William, joiner, 59 Prinoes street, west
Thomson, William, gardener, 19 Maitland street
Thomson, Miss, ladies' boarding and day school, Gleufruin

House, 67 James street
Thomson, Misses, Union Villa, 46 King street, west
Thomson, Mrs, 3 King street, west
Thomson, Mrs, Glenorchy Villa) 20 Adelaide street
Todd, Peter S., boat-builder, 39 Colquhoun square
Todd, Mrs James, Woodlea, 24 Montrose street, west
Topping, William, Marion Villa, Alma Crescent
Torrance, Miss, 113 Clyde street, east
Tosh, Misses, 83 Princes street, east
Towers, Miss, 172 Princes street, eavst
Town Hall & Court House, 33 Princes street, east
Town Mission Keading Koom, 95 King street, east
Trail, Anthony, mason, 10 Charlotte street
Trough t, S. E., protrait and landscape painter, 39 Princes

street, west
Troup, Rev. James, M.A., Seirra Cleare, John street
Turnbull, Duncan, Woodville, 1 6 Argyle street, west
Turnbull, Mrs, Pannoch Villa, 18 Glenfiiilas street
Turner, Mrs, Woodland Place, 126 King street, east
Tweedlie, Robert, Parkend Cottage, 164 King street, east
Tyson, Mrs, 66 Clyde street, east

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United Presbyterian Church, Sinclair street

Union Bank, 24 Colquhoun square, — Wm. Drysdale, agent

Ure, Miss, embroidary printer, 44 Princes street, east

Urie, Rev. Wm., Sefton Cottage, 71 James street

Urie, Miss, Sefton Cottage, 71 James street

Urie, Miss, 10 Suthei-land street

Urie, Mrs, china warehouse^ 21 Clyde street, west—ho. 20

Vallance,, Miss. Stewart Green, 30 Lomond street

Vannan, Robert, Blawlowaiij 17 Granville street

Vair, Thomas, coach builder and hirer, 25 Colquhoun squire

fcS GENERAL DIRECTORY,

Veitch, John, senior, 5 Princes street, east

Veitcla, John, junior, spirit dealer, 34 Princes street, east

Volunteer Artillery Drill Hall, 115 Princes street, east

Waddell, David, Eva Cottage, 38 King street, west
Waddell & Jack, spirit merchants, 39 Clyde street, east
Waldie, John, coach proprietor, 45 & 47 Sinclair street-
house, 17 Clyde street, east
Walker, Robert, J, P., Eskville, 20 Glenfinlas street^
Walker, Robert, 7 Colquhoun square
Walker, R. D., Maple Bank, 217 Clyde street, east
Walker, Wm., 101 Clyde street, east
Walker, Miss L., Hilsrig, 46 James street
Walker, Mrs R., Elratres Villa, 19 Suffolk street
Walker, Mrs R,, Rockbank House, 80 Clyde street, east
Walker, Mrs, 157 Clyde street, east
Walker, Mrs, ladies' nurse, 7 Colquhoun square
Wallace, Matthew, Rosebank Terrace, 8 Campbell street
Wallace, Mrs, Westwood, 7 Glasgow street
Wallace, Mrs, 108 Princes street, west
Wallace, Mrs, 1 1 William street
Ward, C, coal merchant, 24 Princes street, west
Ward, John, tinsmith, 37 James street
Wardlaw, David, baker, 59 Clyde street, west.— house, 51
Warnock, John, flesh er, 25 Clyde street, east — house, 31
Warren, Timothy, St. Clair Villa, 35 King street, west
Waters, Wm., uplplsterer, 36 Clyde street, west — house, 70

"King street, east
Watt, Robert, draper, 1 Clyde street, west — house, 62 Princes

street, west
Watt, J. A., china merchant, 51 Clyde street, west, and 12

Princes sti-eet, east
Watt, Mrs, Taybank, Alma crescent
Watt, Miss, Hoptoun Park, 21 Campbell street
Watt, Mrs, 10 Sutherlar^d street
Watson, James, mason, 15 Colquhoun street
Watson, John, baker, 55 Clyde street, west

GENEEAL DIRECTOR^

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Watson, John, 58 Princes street _, west

WaugJb^ James B., 48 Clyde street, east

Webster, John, merchant, Clyde Cottage, 51 King street, w,

Webster, Robert, Ardenvahr, 22 Suffolk street

Weir, Duncan, gardener, 127 Clyde street, east

Weir, Mrs, 26 William street

Wemyss, Robert, J, P., Bennochy^ Abercromby street

Werayss, Miss, Abercromby street

West Established Church, William st.— Rev. J. Baird, B.D.

West Free Church, Colquhoun street — Rev. Alex Anderson

West Free Church School, Colquhoun street— Miss, Mitchell,

Wheeler, Miss, 48 Clyde street, east

Wheldon, Daniel, carter, 17 Sinclair street

White Alex, butcher, 22 Maitland street

White, James, joiner, 34 Colquhoun street

White, John, plasterer,. 58 Clyde street, east

White,, John, dentist Woodbank, 25 Argyle street, west

White, Mrs, Wardfield, 2 Montrose street, west

Whitelaw, Mrs,, Grenhaugh, 32 William street

Whittle, Miss, 8 Charlotte street

Wilkie, Robert, labourer, 39 Clyde street, west

Williams, Mrs, Stewart Green, 30 Lomond street

Williamson^ Alex,_, sen.^ Queen's Hotel, 74 Clyde street, east

Williamson, Alex., junior, aerated water manufacturer^ 61

Clyde street, west — manufactory, 6
Williamson, John, upholsterer, 39 Clyde street, east
Williamson, William, tinsmith, 73 Princes street, east
Wilson, Andrew, Rockville, 78 Clyde street, east
Wilson, Gilbert, painter, 16 Charlotte street
Wilson, John, Holyrood place, Princes street,, west
Wilson, John, flesh er, 42 Clyde street, west — house, Devar

Cottage, 16 King street, west
Wilson, Rev. John, Camden Villa, 9 Montrose street, east
Wilson, Robert, tobacconist, 7 Princes street, east— house, 34

Clyde street, east
Wilson, William, mason, IS Charlotte street
Wilson, Miss, Chapel Acre, Luss Road
Wilson, Mrs, 20 James street

84 GENERAL DIRECTORY.

Wotherspoon, Miss, teacher of music^ Pomona Villa, 5 Gran-
ville street
Wotherspoon, Mrs, Rosebank Terrace, 80 Princes street, w*
"Wright, Rev. T., Towerville, 2 King's Crescent
Wylie, George, seaman, 11 Maitland street
Wylie, Robert, Lochiel Cottage, 1 Suffolk street

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Yates, Mrs, 153 Clyde street, east

York, Miss, Fairthorn, 7 Havelock street

Young, Gavin, surgeon dentist, 67 Clyde street, west

Young, George, engineer, 176 Clyde street, east

Young, James, Rockmount, Luss Road

Young, William, Loch Sloy Cottage, 28 William street

Young Miss, fruiterer and confectioner, 23 Clyde street, w.

Yuille, Archibald B., J,P,, Brownhill, 27 Colquhoun street

Yuile, Miss, Prospect Cottage, 40 James street

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^enkeisen, Victor, Dhuliill, Luss Road

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES..

ALPHABETICALLY ARRANGED.

..A.

jkherd&le,
Agnew Yilla, .
Airdbank,,
Albert Cottage,
Albert Villa, .
Albion Cottage,
Alder Lodge, ..
Allan Bank, ..
Alma Cottage,
Alma Place, .
Anchorage,
Annat Lodge,
Ajinandale,
Annfield Yilla,
Annook Bank,
Annsfipld,
Ardbeg Cottage^
Ardenclutha, .
Ardenlade,
Ardenlee,
Ardenvabr,
Ardgowan Cottage,
Ardlui House,,
Ardlui,

Ardsbiel, ,

Ardvuela House,
Argyle Cottage,
Argyle Park, .
Argyle Place, .
Ardaior^e House,

137 King street, east

1 Montrose street, east

25 Montrose street, east

203 Clyde street, east

2 Stalibrd street

8 Lomond street

67 Clyde street, west,

66 Clyde street, easti

24 Lomond street

King street, east

20 Suffolk street

35 John street

. 125 King street,, east

1 7 Suffolk street

1 5 Montrose street, east

10 Montrose street, west

50 Grant street

11 Adelaide street

Abercromby street

. John, street

22 Suffolk street

22 Suffolk street

5 Montrose street,, east'

23 Charlotte street

', Millig street, west

. Queen street

7 Suth.eriand crescent lower

42 James street

Clyde sti^eet, west

, 7,2 Clyde-street, west

86

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES.

Ashburn House,
Asliens,
Ashfield,

Ashgrove Cottage,
Ashmount,
Auclientiel,
Augusta Place,
Auld's Place, .
Ava Cottage, ,

14 Montrose street, west

56 King street, west

. 30 William street

142 King street, east

. Millig street

Suffolk street

Clyde street, west

Princes street, west

14 Glasgow street

Ballimore Lodge,

Bank of Scotland^

Baranfrow,

Barwood,

Baths, The

Bath House, .

Beau] ah Lodge,

Beauly Cottage,

Beechwood,

Bellevue,

Bellevue Bank,

Bell view,

Belmont,

Benatine Lodge,

Bennochy,

Birkfell,

Birkhall,

Blairhurn Yilla,

Blair Cottage,

Blairkip,

Blairlomond,

Blairnairn,

Blawlowan,

Bloomfield,

Bythswood Terrace,

Bonnie Brae, .

Bonnyton, ,

20 Montrose street, west

10 Clyde street, west

Colquhoun street

7 Montrose street, east

72 Clyde street, east

137 Princes street, east

. 39 Colquhoun street

9 Glasgow street

18 Argyle steeet, west

, 74 Clyde street, west

. 64 Clyde street, east

110 Princes street, west

Millig street, east

27 Argyle street, west

Abercromby street

20 Charlotte street

1 Havelock street

104 Princes street, west

61 Princes street, east

. 17 Glenfinlas street

, . 6 Stafford street

6 Montrose street, west

, 17 Granville street

33 Lomond street

Clyde street, west

, 66 Sinclair street

. 1 Sutherland crescent, upper

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES,

67

Bowling Green,
Brackenhill Cottage,
Braehead,
Braeside,

Brandongrove Cottage
Brandongrove House,
Brooklyn Villa,
Brooklee, »
Brownhill, ,
Brownhill,
Brucefield,
Burnbank,
Burn brae, „
Burnshill,
Burnside Cottage,
Burnside House,
Bute Cottage,
Byron Cottage,

Canton Cottage,
Camden Villa, ^

Carbrook, . 4

Carden Bank,
Carisbrooke, . *

Carleton, , *

Carrick House, »

Carron Bank, i

Cawdor Lodge, ^

Chapel Acre, »

Chapel Acre Lodge, ,
Chapelfield House,
Charing Cross,
Clarefoot,

Claremount House, ,
Claremont Villa,
Clarendon House,
Clarkfield, . .

o

Luss Road

32 Lomond street

13 Montrose street, east

87 Sinclair street

9 1 Princes street, west

. 83 Clyde street^ west

6 8 Granville street

13 Granville street

i 27 Colquhoun street

. . Luss E-oad

28 Lomond street

6 ■ 23 John street

Campbell street

15 Granville street

, ^ 24 Campbell street

. ^ 22 Campbell street

Sutherland crescent, lower

96 Princes street, west

5 Suffolk street

9 Montrose street, east

29 Montrose street, east

9 Granville street

, 50 King street, west

Millig street^ west

195 Clyde street, east

. y Millig street^ west

Sinclair street

* Luss Koad

i . Luss Road

33 Argyle street, east

Sinclair street

7 Granville street

15 Suffolk street

, 78 Clyde street, west

James street

13 Campbell street

88

NAMES OF HOUSES Al^D PLACES,

Claverton House,

121 Princes street, east

Oiifton Cottage, ,

. 29 Argyle street, east

Clyde Cottage, ,

, 51 King street, west

Clyde View,

, 5 King's Crescent

Clydesdale Ban^, ,

10 James street

Colquhoun Place, ,

• 27 Colquhoun square

Colquhoun Villa,

.31 Colquhoun street

Colquhoun's Land

Maitland street

Collinslea,

, . 5 Havelock street

Congregational Church,

19 Princes street, west

Cora House,

, 131 Princes street, east

Cornwall House,

62 John street

Craigendoran Farm, .

Clyde street, east

Craigie Lea,

. 4 Argyle street, west

Cranley Lodge,

, , 32 Chailotte street

Curling Pond, ,

, Princes street, east

±J

Dailnabruich Cottage,

. 8 Argyle street, east

Dahlbeg,

. 86 Clyde street, west

Dalblair,

10 Granville street

Dallglenan Cottage,

, John street lane

Dallglenan Lodge,

. 44 James street

Dargeeling House,

. . 7 William street

Devaar Lodge,

34 Charlotte street

Devar Cottage,

. , 14 King stieet, west

Dhuhill,

Luss Road

Dhuhil] House, |

Luss Road

Dingwall's Land, ;

Princes street, west

Dougal's Place,

Princes street, east

Doune Cottage,

.160 King street, east

Dovehill. ,

64 Sinclair street

Dover Cotbagp, ,

26 King street, west

Drumgarve,

31 John street

Duart Cottage,

. 14 Adelaide staeet

Dunbeg, . ,

48 James street

Dun cairn, , , ,

Sutherland street, north

DunfiUan, . ,

31 Montrose street, east

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES.

S9'

IC

East Bank Cottage, ,
East Bay Place,
East Burn Cottage, ,
East Burn Chape], ,
East Burn House, ,
Eastburn Place,
Easterton,
Easterton House,
East Seaside,
East Thorn, .
Eastwood House,
Ebenezer Cottage,
Edenbank, .
Edenwood, .
Edgemount, .
Egremount House .
Elgin Villa, ,
Ellengowan,
Ellenbank Cottage,
Elmpark, ,
Elmtree Yilla,
Elrawood Cottage, .
Elmwood House,
Endrick Cottage, .
Enmore,

Episcopalian Church,
Eskville, ,
Established Church,
Ettrick Bank,
Eva Cottage,

Fairbank,
Fairfield, .
Fairthorn .
Fairyknowe,
Farnie House, ,

, 4

. 3

:b^

205 Clyde street, east
, 169 Clyde street, east

37 King street, east
47 King street, east
93 Clyde street, east

King street, east

16 Glasgow street

, 89 Clyde street, west

70 Clyde street, east

129 Princes street east

. 211 Clyde street, east

33 William street
. * Colquhoun street

Lower Sutherland Crescent

3 Havelock street

36 Charlotte street

34 T;omond streets
50 Colquhoun street

100 Princes street, west

Lower Sutherland crescent

19 Suffolk street

18 Montrose street west

18 Glasgow street

. 98 Princes street, west

King street, east

William street

20 Glennnlas street

Clyde street, east

85 Sinclair street

38 King street west

24 Argyle street^ west

» . Luss Road

7 Havelock street

26 Lomond street

, 84 Clyde street, west

90

IfAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES.

Fern Bank,
Ferniegaif,
Findhorn,
Flower Bank;,
Fountain Bank,
Fruinfield Yilla

CBr

Galloway Cottage,.

Garnet Bank,

Gas Work, ».

Gay's Cottagej

Giffnock Cottage,

Giffnock House,

Glenan, . ^

Glenan Bank,

Glenan Cottage, ,

Glenan House^

Glenan Farm,

Gl^nlea,

Glencairn,

Glendarroch House,

Glenelg Yilla,

Gleufeulan,

Glenfinlas House,

Glenfruin House, and School,

Glenmore,

Glenorchy Villa,

Govane Bank, ,

Gowan Bank, ^

Gowanlea, , ,

Grange, The

Greenbank,

Greenbank Cottage,

Greenburn Lodge, , .

Greeniiaugh,

Greenknowe,

2 1 Montrose street, east

Row Road

Queen street

68 Clyde street, west

69 Sinclair street

43 Lomond street

37 Colquhoun street

19 Campbell street
88 Princes street, east

20 Colquhoun street

6 Adelaide street

202 Princes street, east

Qu^en street

23 Campbell street

27 John street

29 John street

Queen street

30 Argyle street, east

4 Stafford street

37 John street

33 Montrose street, east

Millig street

119 Princes street, east

67 James street

28 Campbell street

20 Adelaide street
15 Glasgow street

110 I^ing street, east

Charlotte street

, 23 Suffolk street

15 Campbell street

87 Princes street, east

24 Clyde street, east

„ 32 William street

27 Montrose street, east

35 Argyle street, we^t

ISAMi:Si OF HOUSES AND PLACES^

91

xa:

Hartfield,
Hartree,
Hawthorn Bank,
Hawthorn Hill,
Hayfield,
Hayfield Cottage,
Hazelwoodj
Heath Bank, .
Heath Bank Dairy,
Heathfield,
Heath Cottage,
Heath Yilla,
Helensburgh Library,
Helen slee, r
Hermitage,
Hermitage Cottage
High Stuck Farm,
Hillside Cottage,
Jlilsrig,

Holly Yilla, -
Holmglen,
Holyrood Place,
Homeston House,
Hopetoun Park,
Hopewell Cottage,
Huntly Yilla,

John street lane

James street

37 Argyle street, east

62 G-rant street

Queen street

63 King street, west

Alma Crescent

87 Clyde street, west

3 Sutherland street

12 Montrose street, west

. 4 Sutherland street

34 William street

9 Princes street, east

21 Suffolk street

76 Sinclair street

82 Sinclair street

Henry Bell street

4 Montrose street, west

46 James street

26 Suffolk street

28 George street

- Princes stireet, w^st

29 William street

" 21 Campbell street

23 Lomond street

3 Gran vill,e street

Industrial School,
Tona Place,
lona Terrace,
Ivy Cottage,
Ivy House,

11 Grant street

Clyde street, east

George street

69 Princes street, east

77 Clyde street, west

Janelee,
Janevilie Lodge,

10 Adelaide street
21 Charlotte street

92

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES.

Jardine's Land,
Jordonhill Cottage,

Kent Cottage,
Killearn Lodge,
Kilinn Cottage,
King Street Hall,
Kintyre Yilla,
Kirkmichael Farm

I§Z

James street
6 Sutherland street

36 King street, west

II Granville street

10 Lomond street

21 King street, east

25 Charlotte street

Cemetery Road

La Bella Villa
Laigh Stuck Farm, '
Lansdowne Park,
Larch field Academy,
Larch Villa,
La Retraite,
Larkhill,
Lauder Villa,
Laurel Bank,
Laurel Cottage,
Laurel Green,
Laurel Villa,
Leewood Terrace,
Leewood Villa,
Lenylea,
Letrewel,
Leven Villa,
Lilly Bank, -

Lindens,
Lochiel Cottage,
Lochview, -
Loch Sloy Cottage -
Lomond Cottage,
Lome Cottage
Lorn House, «

liOrne Place ^

149 King street, east

Bell street

Millig street, east

- 35 Colquhoun street

- 29 Colquhoun street

4 Suffolk street
45 Lomond street

- 144 King street, east

- 8 Argyle street, west
102 Princes street, west

60 John street

22 Montrose street, west

Princes street, west

112 Princes street, west

33 John street

16 Montrose street, east

52 James street

- 11 Argyle street, east

Milligs street, east

1 Suffolk street

Princes street, west

28 William street

41 Lomond street

' 166 King street, east

- 79 Clyde street, west

|*rinc8s street, west

NAMES OP HOUSES A5D FLACES,.

93,

jsa:

Madgefield,

Maitland Cottage, -
Maple Bank^
Marian Lodge,
Maryfield
MTarlane's Place,
M'Lachlan's Land,
M 'Master's Cottage,
Meadowbank, *.

Merlefield,
Methilneld,
Methven Villa,,
Middledrift,
Millbrae,
Millerslee Villa,
Millglen, ■ ■>

Milliiill,
Millig Cottage,.
Millview,
Milton Cottage,
Montrose Villa,. -
Moorlands,
Morrison's Land, -
Mossbank Cottage
Mossbank House,
Mossgrove Cottage-,
Moss Cottage, .
Myrtlebank

Netberlee,
Newark Cottage, -
Newark Villa,
Northwood,

Dsr

46 Cbrqulioilti street

2 Maitland street

217 Clyde street, east

Queen street

17 Campbell street

Maitland street

Colquhoun street

170 King street, east

125 King street, east

48 Colquhoun street

63 James street

34 Clyde street, east

69 Jame& street

60 Sinclair street

King street, east

13 Argyle street, east

75 Sinclair street

46 Argyle street, east

81 Sinclair street

97 Princes street, west

33 Colqulioun street

Luss E-oad

George street

40 King street, west

16 Suffolk street

43 King street, west

1 King street, west

127 King street, east

53 King street, west

28 Clyde street, east

28 Clyde street, east

Luss Road

Oakbank,
Oakbank Cottage,

12 Argyle street, west
151 Clyde street, east

94

NAMES OP HOUSES AND PLACES.

Oakfield,
Ochil Bank,
Oddfellows' Hall,
Omaha -
Oriel Cottage,
Osbourn Villaj
Oxford Bank,

1 Henry Bell street

1 3 Montrose street, east

28 Colquhoun square

Milligs street, east

- 1 Suffolk street
50 Grant street

- 62 Sinclair street

Palestine Place, -
Park Cottage^
Parkend Cottage^
Park Free Church,
Park Free Manse*
Parkgrove, -

Parkhill,
Park HousOj
Parklee Cottage^
Park View Cottage,
Parsonage,
Payta Villa,
Pinelea,

Police Office, -
Pomona Villa^ -
Portland Place,
Porton Cottage,
Post Office,
Prison,
Prospect Cottage,

Queen's Hotels
Queensmount,

Hachan,
Rannoch Villa,
Richmond Cottage
Rifle Drill Hall,

- - James street.

1 King's Crescent

* 164 King street, east

~ - Charlotte street

17 Charlotte street

185 King street, east

' 1 Granville street

144 King street, east

- 12 Adelaide street

- - 1 6 Adelaide street

- 16 WilUam street
5 Lower Sutherland Crescent

11 Montrose street, east

- . 31 Princes street, east

- , - 5 Granville street

- - - John street
- 11 Glasgow street
9 Princes street, east

48 Sinclair street
' 40 James street

Q>

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74 Clyde street, east
Queen street

Queen street

1 8 Glenfinlas street

27 William street

6 Colquhoun street

NAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACES,

95

Rockbank House,
Rockend House,
Rockfort House,
Rockfort Place
Rockland Cottage^
Rocklee House,
Rockmount, ,

Roekville,

Roman Catholic Chapel^
Ronbank,
Rosebank House,
Rosebank Cottage,
Rosebank Terrace,
Rosebank Villa,
Roselea, ^

Rosemount .
Rosemount Cottage,
Rosevale Cottage,
Rossdbu Villa,
Rowanbrae,
Rossdhu Place,
Rube,

Saint Clare Villa,
Seabank,
Seabank Place,
Seafield Place,
Seaview House,
Seavie'w Place,
Sefton Cottage,
Seirra Cleare,
Shaftsbury Place,
Sbawfield,
Sherwood,
Skerryvore,
Springfield Academy,
Springfield House,

S

82 Clyde street, east

56 Clyde street, east

, 84 Clyde street, east

Clyde street J east

30 George street

207 Clyde street, east

Luss Road

. 78 Clyde street, east

Maitland street

3 King's Crescent

84 Princes street, west

12 Campbell street

82 Princes street^ west

77 Sinclair street

52 King street, west

44 Colquhoun street

5 Argyle street, east

14 Campbell street

30 King street, west

19 Charlotte street

Princes street, east

Charlotte street

33 King street, west

26 Clyde street, east

Clyde street, east

Clyde street, west

Clyde street east

Argyle street, east

71 James street

, John street, lane

Sinclair street

53 Suffolk street

2 Lower Sutherland Crescent

Alma Crescent

; 53 James street

," . John street

NAMES OF HOUSES AND ■ PLACES*

Springfield Cottage,

..

jSpringvale Cottage,

..

Stewart Green,

• •

Stewart's Land,

«<

St. Leonards,

«-

Sunny brae,.

• •

Sunny side,

.-

Sunnyside Cottage,,

•

•X'

Taybank,

,

Tay Cottage,

,.

Te ra perance Hall,

.-

The Cemetery,

...

The Manse,

.-

Thistle Bank

\

Tbornden

..

Thornhill,

...

Thornton Lodge, ..

.

Thorny brae,

-■

Torrwood Yilkj .

...

Town Hall,

o»

Trees Bank,

u

Underwood,

9:

Union Bank,

»

Union Villa,

0 «

U. P, Church, ..

• 1

U. P. Manse,

• '

"V

Valleyfield,

* 4

Verreville,

■..

Violet Bank,

.

Volunteer Artillery

Drill Hall, ,

^77"

Walton Cottage,

» «■

Wardfield,

« »

. 6 r James street

. 07 Princes, street j east

30 Lomond street

Glenfinlas street

IT Montrose street, east

11 Suffolk street

16 King street, west

59 John street

. Alma Crescent

71 Princes street, east

5 Maitland street

. Cemetery Hoad

38 Charlotte street

22 Charlotte street

52 Colquhoun street

27 George street

89 Sinclair street

54 Sinclair street

Colquhoun street

33 Princes street, east

. 3 William street

9 Lower Sutherland Crescent

24 Colquhoun square

46 King street, west

Sinclair street

James street

44 King street, east

50 James street

65 James street

113 Princes street, east

131 Princes street, east

2 Montrose street, west

KAMES OF HOUSES AND PLACESa

9T

Warriston Lodge,

Wellcroft,

"Wellcroft House,

Wellfield House,

Wellington Lodge,.

West Bay Cottage, ,. ♦.

Westburn House,

West Established Church,

Westfield, ' .

West Free Church, and School,

West Free Manse,.

Westlea

Westwood Cottage,.

Westwood Villa, . ..

West Seaside,

Westwood,

Whinbrae . .^ «.

Willowburn Cottage,

Windsor Cottage,

Woodbank, . .. »

Woodburn House^

Wpodcliff, » .. . 6

Woodend Cottage, .. ,

Woodend Farm,. ,

Woodend House,

Woodend Nursery, ..

Woodhill, .. . .2

Woodland Place,

Woodlee. ,. • i

Woodneuck, .

Woodsid^ Cottage,

Woodside Place,

Woodstock, .

Queen street

John street

85 Princes street, east,

. 12 Stafford street

19. Montrose street, east

80 Clyde street, west

. 30 Campbell istreet

William street

17 Glasgow street

Colquhoun street v

. 2 King street, west

24: Montrose street, west

106 Princes street, west.

20 Argyle street, west

68 Clyde street, east

7 Glasgow street

.. 66 King street, east

10 Glasgow street

201 Clyde street, east

25 Argyie street, west

39 John street

Lower Sutherland Crescent

14 Argyie street, west

. Queen street

Millig street, west

9 Montrose street, west

Upper Sutherland Crescent

King street, east

22 Argyie street, west

, 60 King street, west

, 7 Sutherland street

9 Sutherland street

Upper Sutherland Crescent

Yewbank,
Young's Place,

1 9 Glasgow street-
I^rinces streel east.

PROFISSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Aerated- Water Manufacturer.

Williamson, Alexander, junn, 6 Clyde street, west

Architects.

Dingwall^ John, Glenan House, 29 John street
Leiper, William, Tertesie, 12 Sutherland street, north
Spence, William, Ardlui, 36 Charlotte street
Thomson, Alex. G., LA., 2 Bell street

Auctioneer.

Campbell, Peter, 40 Sinclair street

Bakers.

Dixon, Robert, It Clyde street, west
Gilchrist, William, 1 4 Princes street, east
Hunter, James, 36 Princes street, east
Wardlaw, James, 59 Clyde street, west
Morris, Mrs, 37 Clyde street, west
M'Lachlan, David S., 73 Clyde street, east
M'Lachlan, Lachlan, 3 Clyde street, east
M'Nicol, John, 131 Clyde street, east

Bankers.

Breingan, Alex., Bank of Scotland, 10 Clyde street, west
Drysdale, William, Union Bank, 24 Colquhoun square
Orr, R. D., Clydesdale Bank, 10 James street

PROFESSION'S ANEi TRADES DIRECTORY. ^9

Berlin Wool Repositories.

Dickson & Aitken, 20 Princes street east
M'Ewan, Miss, 9 and 11 Sinclair street

Blacksmiths.

Bain, James, 71 Sinclair street
M'Murrich, Daniel, 122 Clyde street, east
Murrie, John, 27 Colquhoun square
Rodger j William, 34 Sinclair street

feoat Buildersd

Henderson^ Joseph,- 32 James street
Thompson, William, 57 Princes street, west
Todd^ Peter, 29 Colquhoun square.

Booksellers and Stationers,

Allanj A; P*., 27 Clyde street j west
Battrum, William, 50 Princes street, east
M'Kim^ Adam, 48 Clyde street, west
Macneur, Alexander, 19 Clyde street, west
Millar, Mrs, 11 P'rinces street, east
Pettit, William, G Sinclair street
Provan, Andrew^ 48 Princes street, east

Boot &nd ShoemaMersB

Elliot j Bobert, 41 Clyde street, east

Fisher Daniel, 4 Maitland street

Hall, Robert, 20 George street

M'Nicol,' Alexander, 14 Clyde street, east

M'Kechnie, Angus, 48 Sinclair street

Patonj John, 8 Maitland street

Smithj Mrs, 13 Sinclair street

SnodgrasSj Andrew, 2 Piinces street, east,

Stevenson J Robert, 78 Princes street, east,- arid 38 Clyd©

street, west
Swanson, William, 63 Clyde street, east

100 PKOFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Builders.

Barclay, Andrew, 21 Colquhoun square
Comrie, Alexandar, 152 King street, east
Galloway, George, 1 1 Sinclair street
Jack, Jolin, 64 Clyde street, west
Millar, "David, 159 Clyde street, east

Cab Proprietors.

Black, David, 19 Glasgow street
Yair^ Thomas, 25 Colquiioun square
Waldie, John, 45 and 47 Sinclair street

Carriers to and from GlasgoWa

Blackwood, John, 25 William street ^
Gillies, William, 69 Princes street, east
M'Kinlay, Puncan_, 28 Princes street, west,

Carters,

Black, David, 12 Glasgow street
Hamilton, William, 68 Princes street, east
Lamont, Hugh, 14 James street
M'Kinlay, Duncan, 28 Princes street, east
M'^Naughton, John, 35 James street
M'Neil, Hugh, 24 James street
Rodger, John, 7 Lomond street
Russell, William, 38 Princes street west
Waldie, John, 45 and 47 Sinclair street

Chemists and Druggists,

Campbell, L. J, M., 5 Sinclair street
Harvie, George, 38 Princes street, east
Reid, D. Stevenson, 28 Clyde street, west
Rennards, J, R,, 55 Clyde street, east

China and Stoneware Merchants.
Murray, Mrs, 22 Clyde street, east

PROFESSIONS AND TRACES jDiAECTORt» lOl

Pettit, Alfred, 13 Clyde street, east

Urie, Mrs, 21 Clyde street, west

Watt, Miss, 51 Clyde street, west, and 12 Princes street, east

Coal Merchants*

Campbell, Kobert, 43 James street

Cornail, Francis, 17 Princes street, east

Duniop, William^ coal merchant, 31 Princes street, west

Eman, Jolin, 19 Colquhoun street

Ewing, Peter, & Co., 37 Princes street, east

M'Cabe^ John, 78 King street, east

Russell, William,, 37 Princes street, east

Spy, Andre Wj 1 9 Sinclair street

Ward, C,, 24 Princes street, west

Confectioners*

Campbell, Miss, 81 Clyde street, east
Dickie, Robert W., 3 Sinclair street
Finlayson, Miss, 57 Clyde street, east
M'Crae, Kenneth, 82 Princes street, east
M'Donald, D, R. 58 Princes street, east
M'Kechenie, William, 24 Sinclair street
Reid, Mrs, 1 Clyde street, west
Young, Miss, 23 Clyde street, west

Contractors, j

Hamilton, William, 68 Princes street
Kerr, William _^ 21 Colquhoun street
Lindsay, John, 63 King street, east
M'Kinlay, Duncan^ 28 Princes street, west

Day and Boarding Schools.

Ashmount — Miss Murdoch, Millig street, west
Established Church School — John Eraser, Clyde street, east
Barwood, — Misses Peat, 7 Montrose street, east
Glenfruin House, — Miss Thomson, 67 James street
Industrial School— George Mair, li Grant street
Kintyre Yilla — Miss Niool, 25 Charlotte street

102 PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Larcl^field Academy — Alex. Mackenzie, 73 Colquhoun street
Springfield Academy — Tljomas Harker, 51 James street
West Free Church Scliopl— 23 Colquhoiin street

Dairies,

Buchanan^ Mrs, 11 Colquhoun street
Crillies, MrSj 85 Clyde street, east
Henderson, John, 32 James street
Lament, Hugh, 14 James street
M'Arthur, Mrs. 17 Princes street^ east
M'Meneniy, Peter, 90 King street, east
M^Naughton^ John, 35 James street
E-ussell, MrSj 18 Clyde st^reet, east
Ilobertson, Mrs, 3 Sutherland street
Russell, Mrs^ 36 Princes street, west
Rqdger, John, J Lomond street

Doctors of Medicine and Surgeons,

Finlay, Dr James, Millbrae^ 60 Sinclair street
(jibb, Dr G.; Lorn House, 79 Clyde street, west
Henderson, Dr Francis, Seabank, 26 Clyde street, east
Messer, Dr Fordyce, 9 William street
ileid, Dr Douglas, Eastepton, 89 Clyde street, west

Drapers.

Anderson, Miss, 15 Sinclair street
Clark, John, 66 Clyde street, west
Hay, Mrs, 1 Princes street, east
Little, Mrs, 95 Clyde street, east
Muir, Robert, 54 and 56 Princes street, east
M'Callum & Son, 5 Clyde street, east
Stirling, Mrs, 20 Maitland street
Thomson, R. & J,, 50 Clyde street, west
Watt, Robert, 1 Clyde street, ■y^'est

Dressmakers^

Buchanan, Miss, 13 Colquhoun street

PROFKSSIOKS AXD TRADES r>IRE<^TO»T. iQ|

Campbell, Miss, 95 Princes street, east

Crawford,. Miss, 81 Princes street, east

Davidson, Mrs, 1 George street

Drummond, Mrs, 5 Colquhoun street

Forbes, Mrs, 1 Sinclair street,

Forsyth, Miss, 1 9 Maitland street ,

Gardiner, Catherine, 64 Clyd^ street, west «

Glover, Mrs, 25 Colquhonn square

Hillen, Miss, 21 Argyle street, west

Law, Mrs, 3 William street

Love, Miss, 84 Princes street^ east

Martin, Miss, 172 Princes street, east

Millar, Miss, 26 Colquhoun street

M'Aiislan, Miss, 66 Princes, street, west

M'Ewan, M. and W., 3 Colquhoun streets

M'Farlane, Miss, 42 Clyde street, east

M'Laren, Mrs, 32 Clyde street, west

M'Leod, Miss, 26 Sinclair street

M*Leod, Miss, 1 5. Maitland street

McLean, Miss, 24 Colquhoun street

M'Taggart, Miss, 30 John street

Ramsay^ Miss, 9 Montrose street, west

Ross, Miss, 53 Sinclair street

Fishinoitgersv

Filleul, Charles, 68 Princes street, east
Moir, Mrs, 25 Clyde: -street, w:est

Cuthill, James, 16 Princes street, east
Jamieson, Joseph, 60 Clyde street, east
Henderson, Miss, 30 Princes street, west
Sharp, Thomas, 66 Princes street, east
Warnock, John 25 Clyde street, east
Wilson, John, 42 Clyde street, west

Fmiterers.

Arroll^ Waiter, 3 3 Clyde street, west

104 PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Bryson, William, 9 Princes street, east
Frame, Miss, 46 Princes street, east
Paton, William^ 8 Prin€?es street, east
Peddie, William, 70 Princes street, east
Ramsay, James, 12 Princes street, west
Telfer, James, 30 Princes street, east
Young, Miss, 23 Clyde street, west

Gardeners,

Arroll, James, 7 Jolin Street
Arroll, John, 32 Colquhoun street
Arroll, Robert^ 40 John street
Begbie, E,obert_, 47 Clyde street, east
Bryson, William, 9 Princes street, east
Combs, George, Helensburgh Cemetery
Dewar, Donald, 1 James street
Paton, William, 8 Princes street, east
Ramsay, James, 12 Princes street, west
■Robertson, David, 52 Princes street, east
Tait, James, 76 Princes street, west
Telfer, James, 30 Princes street, east

Grain and Seed Merchants.

Gardner & Lindsay, 43 Clyde street, east
M'Farlane, R. S., 2 Clyde street, east
M'Menemy, Peter, 26 Princes street, east

Grocers and Provision Merchants.

Allan, George, 84 King street, east
Buchanan, James, 49 Clyde street, west
Buchanan, Thomas, 11 Colquhoun street
Burgess, James, 40 Princes street, east
Cairns, Alexander, 2 Princes street, west
Cameron, Neil, 50 Clyde street, east
Campbell, Pinlay, 24 Clyde street, west
Campbell, Robert, 42 James street
Dickson & Veitch, 18 Clyde street, west

PROFESSIONS AND TRADlES DIRECTORY, 105

'Hill^ Samuel, 13 John street
Lennox & Chapman, 8 Clyde street, west
M'Callum, Donald, 55 Clyde street, west
M'Nair, William, 9 Clyde street, west
M'Lean, Donald, 74 Princes street, east
Mitchell, John, 2 Sinclair street
Mitchell, A. R., 62 Princes street, east
Shaw, William, 14 Sinclair street
Smithy Mrs, 133 Clyde street, east
■Somerville, James, 82 King street, east

Hairdressers.

iRankin, John, 49 Clyde street, east
SpeirSj William, 26 Maitland street

Hotels.

Imperial Hotel, 19 Clyde street^ east— James Fraser

Queen's Hotel, 74 Clyde street, east — Alexander Williamson

m TT X 1 f 60 Princes street, east, — Mrs Sharp

Lemperance Hotels i i .-^ j , , , ttt n ^ ^

^ [ 4 Clyde street, west — Wm. Gatenby

House Agents-

Battrum, William, 50 Princes street, east
Campbell, Peter^ 40 Sinclair street
Hunter, John, 12 Adelaide street
Pettit, William, 6 Sinclair street, east

Ironmongers.

M'Connell, Thomas, 10 Sinclair street
M'Lellan, Adam, 9 Clyde street^, east

Joiners and Glaziers.

Buchanan, George, 104 Clyde street, east

Buchanan, William, 74 Princes street, west

Buchanan, Robert, 1 William street,

Buchanan, Thomas, 71 Clyde street, east

Dow, John, 26 Colquhoun square 7'

Ferguson & Shields, 22 John street

106 PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Grant, J, &. E,., 8 Campbell^ street

Kerr & Bishop, King street, east

Murray, D,, 12 King street, west

Murray, P., 20 King street, east

M"^ Auslan, Archibald, 118 King street, east

M'Coll, Duncan, 33 Princes street, west

Service, Neil, 59 Princes street, east

Letter Carriers.

Black, Charles, 6 Clyde street, west
Ingles, John, 24 Princes street
Snodgrass, John, 1 Princes street, east
Spy, Robert^ 10 Princes street, west
YateSj Alexander, 3 King street^ West

Mangle Keepers*

Bain, Mrs, 6 Colquhoun square
Ferguson, Mrs, 61 Clyde street, east
Fisher, Miss, 53 Princes street, west
Hyndman, Mrs, 22 James street
M'Cafer, Miss, 17 Maitland street
Smithy Mrs, 57 Sinclair street
Rathbone, Mrs, 14 Glentinlas street
"Watson, Mrs, 15 Colquhoun street

Midwives.

Chapman, Mrs, 10 Glenfinlas street
M'Farlane, Mrs, 9 Maitland street
M'Pherson, Mrs, 24 Maitland street
Slorance, Mrs, 23 Maitland street
Walker, MrS; 7 Colquhoun street

Milliners.

Campbell, Miss, 59 Princes street, east
Forbes, Mrs, 1 Sinclair street
Law, Mrs, 3 William street

PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY. 10'

M'Callum & Sons, 5 Clyde street, east
M'Callum, Miss, 7 Clyde street, west
M'Ewan, M. & W., 3 Colquhoun street
Porter, Miss, 26 Clyde street^ west
Kankin, Mrs^ 34 Clyde street, east
Koss, Miss, 44 Princes street, west
Stewart, Miss, 80 Princes street east
Thomson, P. & J., 50 Clyde street, west

Music, Pianoforte, and Harmoninm Warehouse*

William Battrum^ 7 Sinclair street

Nurserymen.

Arroll, John, Colquhoun street

Arroll, Robert, Colquhoun street

Bryson, William, King street, east

Fleming, Brothers, Millerslee Nursery, East King street

Pamsay, James, Montrose street, west .

Robertson, David, Argyle street, east

Painters and Paperhangers.

Angus, George, 63 Clyde street, west
Dickson, Mrs, 16 Sinclair street
M'Culloch, J, W., & Son, 29 Princes street, east
M'Pherson & Carson, 18 Colquhoun street
Muirhead & Peddie, 24 Princes street, east

Piiotograpliers,

Bald, A, H., Richmond Cottage, 27 William street
Stuart, John, Thistle Bank, 22 Charlotte street

Plasterers and Slaters.

Armit, Allan, 23 William street
Dempster, Donald, 95 Clyde street, east
Forsyth, James, 48 Princes street, west
Stevenson, Robert, 110 King street, east

Plumbers and Gasfitters.

Crawford, Thomas, 20 Sinclair street

108 PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.

Orantj James, 18 Princes street, west
M'Kiulayj William, 51 Clyde street^ east
Reid, William, 23 Princes street east

Police Superintendent.

Anderson, John, 33 Princes street, east

Printers.

Battrum, William, 52 Princes street, east
Campbell, William, 9 Colquhoun street
Pettit, William, 6 Sinclaii- street

Saddlers.

RuthVen, John, 10 Maitland street
Stewart, Alexander, 44 Clyde street, east

Surveyor.

Taylor, Robert, 24 William street

Tailors and Clothiers.

Brash, John, 2 Clyde street, west
Caldwell, William, 20 Clyde street, east
Davidson, John, 30 Sinclair street
Irvine, John, 6 Princes street, west
M'Leod, Donald, 78 Clyde street, east
Patterson, William, 35 Clyde street, west

Tobacconists.

Glen, Peter, 43 Clyde street, v/est
M'^Menemy, Thomas^ 42 Princes street, east
Robb, David, 5 Clyde street, west
Wilson, Robert, 7 Princes street, east

Umbrella Makers.

Parian®, Mrs, 39 Clyde street, west
Speirs, William, 26 Maitland street

Upbolsterersland Cabinetmakers.

Paterson, John, 52 Clyde street, west

PROFESSIONS AND TRADES DIRECTORY.. 109

Porter, Clement, 14 Princes street, west
Waters, William, 36 Clyde street, west

Watctmakers and Jewellers ,^

Freebairn, Mrs, 40 Clyde street, west
E,oy, Gabriel, 22 Clyde street^ west
Ross, James, 16 Clyde street, wetit

Wine and Spirit MerchantSo.

Anderson, Miss, 109 Clyde street, east
Campbell, Finlay, 24 Clyde sti-eet, west
Fowler, James, 27 Clyde street, east
Lennox & Chapman, 8 Clj^de street, west
Kyle, Andrew, 47 Clyde street, west
M'Ausian, Mrs, 89 Clyde street, east
M'Donald, D. K., 5S Princes street, east
M'Nair, William, 9 Clyde street, west
Mitchell, A, .R-, 64 Princes sti-eet, east
Mitchell, John, 2 Sinclair street
Ponds, James, 3 Clyde street, west
M'Millan, Hamilton, 32 Princes street, west
Shaw, William, 14 Sinclair street
Thomson, Peter, 86 Princes street, east
Yeitch^ John, jun., 31 Sinclair street
Waddell & Jack, 39 Clyde street, east

Writers.

M'Lachlan, George, 6 Princes street, east
Spalding, James, 44 Princes street, east

Veterinary Surgeons.

Gardner, Duncan, 43 C/lyde street, east
M'Dougall, John, 122 Princes street, east

THE ROYAL FAMILY.

Her Most Excelljint Majesty (Alexandria-) Yictoria^
By the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Gi-eat
Britain and Ireland, and of the Colonies and Dependencies
thereof in Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Australasia,
Queen, Defender of the Faith. Her Majesty, the only ehild of
his Royal Highness Edward, Duke of Kent (b. Nov, 2, 1767,
d. Jan, 23, 1820, m. 1818 Vic fcoria-Mary-Lousia, b. Aug, 17,
1786, d. March 16, 1861, daughter of Francis, Piake of Saxe-
Coburg), fourth son of King George III., was born on the
24th May 1819, succeeded to the Crown on. the demise of her
uncle, his late Majesty William IV.,. on the 20th June, 1837,
married Feb. 10, 1840, His Royal Highness Francis- Albert-
Augustus-Charles-Emanuel, Duke of Saxe, Prince of Coburg
and Gotha, who was born, August 26, 1819 and died December
14, 1861 ; and has issue —

1. Victoria-Adelatde-Mary-Lousia, Princess Royal, b.

Nov, 21, 1840, m. Jan, 25, 1858, Prince Frederick-
William of Prussia.

2. Albert EpwARD, Prince of Wales, b. Nov. 9, 1841, m.

March 10, 1863, Princess Alexandria-Caroline-Maria-
Charlotte-Lousia-Jnlia, b. December 1, 1841, eldest
daughter of Christian IX- King of Denmark, and has
issue Prince Albert- Victor-Christian Edward, b. Jan.
8, 1864 ; Prince George- Frederick-Ernest-Aibert, b,
June 3, 1865 ; Princess-Lousia-Victoria-Alexandria-
Dagmar, b. Feb, 20, 1867, Princess Victoria -
Alexandra-Olga-Mary, b. July 6, 1868 ; Princess
Maud-Charlotte-Mary-Victoria, b. Nov. 26, 1869 ;
Prince Alexander, John-Charles- Albert, b. April 6
1871, d. April 7, 1871,

3. Alice Maud-Mary, b. April 25-, 1843, m. July 1, 1862,

Prince-Fredrick- William- Louis of Hess ; his issir\
Princess- Victoria- Albert-Elizabeth-Matilda-Mary, b.

ROYAL FAMILY^ HI

Api'il 5 til, 1863 ; Princess-Elizabeth- Alexan clririe-
Louis- Alice, b. Nov, 1st, 186,4 ;. i*riiicess-Irene-Maiie-
Lousie-Aima^ b. Ju3,y 11th, 1866; Prince- Ernest-Louis-
Charles. A Ibert- William, b. Hov, 25tli, 1868 ; Prinze
,b. Oct. 7th 1870.

4. Alfred-Ernest- Alb KRT, Duke of Edinburgh., b, August

6,, 1844, m. January, 23, 1874, H.I.H. the Grand
Duchess Marie Alexandrovna, daughter of the Emperor
of Eussia, b, Oct. 17, 1853,

5. Helena- A GUSTA- Victoria, b. M^ay 25, 1848, m. July 5,

1866, Prince Frederick-Chri§tian-Charles-Agus,tus of
Schleswig-Holstein^ and has. issue, Prince Chiistian-
Victor-Albert-Ludwig-Ern est- Anton, b. Api:il 14,
1867 y Prince Albert- John-Charles-Erederick-Alfred-
George, b. Feb. 26, 1869 ; Princess Yictor-Lousie-
Sophie-Augusta- Amelia-Helena, b. May 3^ 1870

6. Lousia-Caroline-Alberta, b. March 18, 1848, ng,. March,

21, 1871, Marquis of L,orne, K,T,, John Douglas
Sutherland CampbelL

7. Arthur-William-Patrick, b. May 1, 1850.

8. Leopold-George Duncan-Albert, b. April 7, 1853.

9. Beatrice-Mary- Yictoria-Feodore, b, April 14, 1857.
Cousins of the Queen. — George Duke of Cumberland

(ex-King of Hanover) b. May 27, 1819,

George- William-Frederick-Charles, Duke of Cambridge, b.
March 26, 1819, sue. 1850; Augusta, b. July 19, 1822, m.
June 28, 1843, Frederick, Grand Duke of Mecklenburgh-
Strelitz, andhas issue; Mary b. No, 27, 1833, m. June 12, 1866,
Francis-Paul-Charles-Louis-Alexander, Prince of Teck, and,
has issue. Princess Yictoria-Mary-Augusta-Lousia-Olga-
Pauline-Claudine. Agnes, b. May 26, 1867 ; A dolph us. Charles
b. August 13, 1868; Francis. Joseph. Leopold. Frederick, b.
Jan. 9, 1870, Their father Adolphus. Frederick, who died
July 8, 1 850, was b. Feb. 24, 1774, m. May 7, 1818, Augusta,
daughter of Frederick, Landgrave of Hesse. Cassel, b. July,
25, 1797,

Maternal Cousin of the <^w«ew. —-Leopold II., King of the
Belgians.

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, &c.

H, E, Criiin E.wing, Esq., Lord Lieutenant of the County.
Archd. OiT Ewing, Esq., of Ballikinrain, M.P.for tlie County,

TOWN COUNCIL— 1874-5.
Provost — Thomas Steven.

Bailies-— William Bryson, and Archd. M'Auslan.

Treasurer— J. W. M'Culloch.
Councillors.
Andrew Provan, | Daniel M'Mi.llan,

Alex, Breingan^ D, Murray,

John Dingwell, John Stewart,

John Cramb, | F. Campbell,

Town-Clerk — G. Maclachlan, Deputy Treasurer, — R. D. Orr.

Assessor— John Hunter, Surveyor of Streets — R. Taylor.

Police Superintendent — John Anderson.

For New Council see commencement of Directory.

PORT & HARBOUR TRUSTEES— (Under 9 Yic. cap. 16)
The Provost, Magistrates, Treasurer, and Councillors.

Treasurer — R. D. Orr. Clerk — George Maclachlan.

Harbour Master — James Ferguson.

Assistant Harbour Master— James Lennox

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

The Provost, Helensbxirgh.
William Kidston.
James Thomson.
Aliexander Anderson.
Eobert Walker.
William M'Allister Donald
Walter Buchanan.
Alexander Ereingan.
John Ure.
John Brown.
Alexander Dick.
H. E. Crum Ewing, juu.
Robert Wemyss.

Richard Kidston
Robert D. Orr.
Robert M'Kicol.
Thomas Steven.
Hugh Miller
James Stirling
Thomas M'Micking
William Drysdale.
Archibald B. YuiUe.
Andrew Oswald.
John Anderson
W. A. Corbet.
John M'Gregor.

James Alexander
Thomas Falconer.
James Finlay.
William Orr Ewing, Row.
A. Id. Dennistoun, ,,
Peter Drew, ,,

John Crilmour, „

G. H.B. M'Leod, Shandon
William Jamieson, „
Walter M'Lellan ,,

J. B. Cowan, „

R. B. Brown, Garelochhead
Depute-Clk, (x. M'Lachlan

PARISH OF

Rev. Dr. Duff, Chairman.
John Maufarlane.
Robert D. Orr.

ROW SCHOOL BOARD,
William Kidston. Alexander Breingan.

Thomas M'Micking. Geo.. Maclachlan, Clk. & Tr.
John Cramb.

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, ETC. IIS

PAROCHIAL BOARD.

Chairman — John Cramb.

Inspector of Poor — Alexander Kinniburgh, Helensburgh.

CLERGY.

Church of Scotland, Row — J.
Laurie Fogo.

Ch. of Scotland, Helensburgh,
J. Lindsay.

Ch. of Scotland (west) Helens-
burgh— J, Baird, B.D.

West Free Ch.- — A. Anderson.

Park Free Church— W. H.

Carslaw, M.A.
U. P, Church^ D. Duff,-

M.A, L,LD,
Episcopal — J. Stuart, Syme,
Congregational- J-. Troup M. A.
Roman Catholic-S, B, Rowson« .

FAST DAYS FOR HELENSBURGH

The Thursday before the first Sunday of May and November.

FAIRS.
On the second Tuesday of February, on first June, Btli
August, and 12th November; but should these days fall on
Saturday, Sunday, or Monday, then on the Tuesday following.

Steamers to Dunoon, Garelochhead, Greenock, and Glas-
gow several times a-day. Railway communication with Glas-
gow several times a-day. Omnibus to Row and- Shandon in
connection with the five p.m. train.

KING STREET HALL— James Lennox, keeper.

REGISTRAR FOR THE PARISH OF ROW.

Alexander Kinniburgh, Helensburgh.

PRISON,
Prison Keeper — AngusM'Kechnie, Surgeon — Gabriel Gibb,

BANKS,
Bank of Scotland — A. Breingan, agent; R. M -Cowan, acct,
Clydesdale Bank — R. D, Orr, agent ; S. Bryden, acct.
Union Ba.nk — Wm, . Drysdale, agent; Wm. Bonthron^ acct.

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PUBLIC BODIES^ SOCIETIES, ETC.

CEMETEKY COMPANY.

Superintendent and Secretary— William Drysdale.

GAS LIGHT COMPANY.

Honorary Chairman — Sir Jas. Colqnhonn, of Luss, Baronet.

Pirectors.

Peter Walker, Chairman.
William Swanson,
David Waddell.
L. M'Lachlan.

G. Gibb.

Alexander Breingan.
A. Lennox.
John Black.

Treasurer — Robert D. Orr, Clerk — George Maclachlan.

Suryeyor — Robert Taylor, Manager — William Smith,

INSITRANCE OFFICES AND AGENTS.

North British — J. O. Stewart.
Scottish National — R, D. Orr,
Phoenix Fire, do.

Royal — Alexander Breingan.
English and Scottish Law —

George Maclachlan.
Scottish Dnion-G. Maclachlan
Caledonian — Jas. Spalding

London and Lancashire Fire —

Andrew Pro van.
Scottish Amicable — J. Hunter.
Life Association of Scotland,

William Drysdale,
Northern — William Bryson.
London and General Plate
Glass — James Spalding
Scottish Pro vident- J, SpaldingJScottish Provincial, S. Bryden

THE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Post Office, 9 East Princes street.

President — Provost Steven, Vice-President — A, Breingan,

Secretary, J. Spalding. Treasurer, J. MitcheJl.

SUBSCRIPTION READING ROOM.

William Battrum, 52 Princes Street. (See advertisement,)

HELENSBURGH SUBSCRIPTION LIBRARY.

Established in 1860 — Yvilliam Battrum. (See advertisement,)

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, 3^X0. 115

CURLING CLUB.

Patron — Sir James Calquhoun. of Luss^ B^rt. :.
President — Robert Little.
Yice President— J. W. M^CuUoch
Representative Members — D, R. M'^Donald and P. CampbelL_

Chaplain— Rev» John Lindsay,
Treasurer— -R. S, M'Farlane. Secretary— William Br j son.

BOWLING CLUB,

Patron — SirJa^mes Colquhoun of Luss, Bart. -
President William Smith, Tice President — James Sharps
Secretary — M. C. Graham, . Treasurer — A. Breingan.
Honorary Secretary, George Maclachlan, .

HELENSBURGH AND GARELOCH INYESTMENT
AND BUILDING SOCIETY.

Donald .M'Callum— Chairman,
Directors, ,

John Stuart, | John Mitchell:

James Forsyth. | R. S. M'Farlane,

Alexander Breinganv | William Bry son.

William M'Nair, I D. R. M'Donald

COLPORTEUR COMMITTEE.

President, William Kidston, Esq. Treasurer, R. Dv Orr, Esq.

Secretary — James Spalding, Esq.

Colporteur — Angus McAllister, Helensburgh.;

HELENSBURGH TOWN MISSION. ,

Tfeasurer, A, Breingan, Esq. Secretary, W, Kidston^ Esq,;.
Missionary— -Alexander Ralston. .

116 \ PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, ETC,

HELENSBURGH SABBATH SCHOOL UNION,

President — G. M'Lachlan. Vice-President — Wm. Leiper,
General Secretary — S. Bryden. Treasurer — J. Alexander,

Directors.
M. Buchanan, James Stewart.

Robert Urie. Angus M'AUister.

Duncan M'Intyre. Rev, John Baird.

Robert Melville.
Chairman of Sabbath Forenoon Meeting — James Spalding,

Penny Savings Bank open every Monday evening from 7
to 8 o'clock, in Mission Hall^ Colquhoun Square.

HELENSBURGH AND GARELOCH AUXILIARY
TO THE NATIONAL BIBLE SOCIETY OF SCOTLAND.

President — Sir James Colquhoun, of Luss, Bart

Vice-Presidents,

C. Campbell, Esq. of Colgrain. John Gilmourj'Esq., Row.
W, Kidston, Esq, of FerniegairlW. Colquhoun, Esq. Rossdhu.

Provost Steven.
Directors.
Messrs Walter Buchanan, Alex, Breingan, John Anderson,
Thomas M'Micking, Alex, Anderson, R. D. Orr, James
Somervail, Andrew Osv/ald, A. B. Drysdale, J. Alexander,
and John Cuthbertson, Helensburgh ; Forrest Frew, Lyle-
ston ; Dr H. Miller, Broomfield ; Edward Caird, Finnart ;
and the Ministers of the Gospel in the district, who are
Subscribers, ex-officio.
Representative Director to Glasgow Board, Alex, Anderson,
. Treasurer — Mr W.* Drysdale.
Secretary — Mr J. Spalding.

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, ETC, 117

Collectors. - -'

Dlsts.

1. Mrs M'Lachlan and Miss

Graham.

2. Miss Bankier.

3. Misses Leslie.

4. Miss Samuel.

5. Miss Brown.

Dits.

6. Miss Neil.

7. Miss M. Paterson,

8. Miss E. Gilmour.

9. Misses Kemp.

10. Row— Miss C. Watson,

1 1 . Shandon, Miss Jane Taylor

MASONIC LODGE 503 ST, GEOEGE, Helensburgh,

Office BearerSo

James Marsland, BiW.M.
James Ross, J.W.

John Thomson_, Secretary,

Duncan M'Kinlay, S. W,
William Smith, Treas,

HELENSBURGH LODGE OF THE LOYAL
INDEPENDENT ORDER OF ODDFELLOWS, M.tT.

Trustees.

Alexander Breingan, Robert Stevenson, Thos, Buchanan.

Treasurer— John Brash,

istdumbartonshire yolunteer artillery

Hank. H"ains. ilesidence,

Captain... .,.....,....Dr F. Messer Helensburgh.

Lieutenants — William Anderson, and John Proudfoot Dick.

1st DUMBARTONSHIRE YOLUNTEER RIFLES.

Kank. Name. Ilesidence.

Captain Alexander Breingan .Helensbiira[h.

Lieutenants — Robert Orr, and Henry Spence.

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PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, ETC,

HELENSBURGH AND GARELOCH HORTICULIJ-
RAL SOCIETY,

Patrons.

Sir James Colquhotm of Luss, Baronet
H. E. Crum Ewing, Ardencaple Castle,
Lord-Lieutenant of Dumbartonshire
John Ure, Esq., Cairndhu.
William Colqiihoun, Esq., Luss
Eobert Napier, Esq., West Shandon
Colin Campbell, Esq., Colgrain
John White, Esq., Ardarroch
Thomas Watson, Esq., Inchalloch
John M'Donald, Esq., Belmore
Edward Caird, Esq, Finnart
Wm. Jamieson, Esq., Shandon House
Professor Swan, Ardchapel
A. B. Yuille, Esq., Darleith
William Drysdale, Esq., Union Bank
M. A. Muir, Esq., Ardenvoir
Professor Cowan, Greenhill
Walter Buchanan, Esq., Bathwing

President, A. Ereingan, Esq.
Yice-President, J. Sharp, Esq.

Sir James Watson, Broomknowe
James Sharp, Esq., Ardenclutha
John Gilmour, Esq,, Mount Vernon
Thomas Crawford, Esq, Garelochhead
Robert Brown, Esq., Bendarroch
Major Dennistoun, D.V.R., Eoselee
David Waddell, Esq., Eva. Cottage
T. Steven, Esq. , Provost of Helensburgh
Forrest Frew, Esq., Lyleston
William Kidstou, Esq., Perniegair
William Couper, Esq., Woodstone
J. M'Lellan, Esq.,Craigmore
Seaton Thomson, Esq., Lagary
J. M. Martin, Esq., Auchenfroe
John Thomson, Esq.^ Linnburn
Charles Kidston, Esq., Glenoran
Victor Zinkeisen, Esq,, Dhuhill House
James Young, Esq., Eockmount

Treasurer, R. D. Orr, Esq.
Secretary, Wm. Bryson,Esq,

HELENSBURGH POST OFFICE.

William Bryson", Post-master.

Receiving Boxes — West Corner of William Street and
King Street ; East Corner of Princes Street and George Street;
Corner of Stafford Street and Luss Road.

Despatch of Mails — First, 8-50 a.m. — Box closes at 8-35.
Second, 12-45 p.m. — Box closes at 12-30. Third, 3-45 p.m.
direct bag to Edinburgh — Box closes at 3-25. Fourth, 5-40
p.m. — Box closes at 5-25. Fifth, 6-50 p.m. — Box closes at
6-35. The 3-25 p,m, Despatch meets the London Limited
Mail for English and Foreign mails.

Arrivals. — First, Post-cart by Road 4 a,m, — Delivery at
7 a,ra. Second, 10-40 a,m. — delivery immediately. Third,
4-55 p.m.— delivery immediately.

Sunday — Open from 8 till 10 a.m. ; Box closes at 2 p.m.

Money Order Office. — Open from 9 a.m, to 6 p.m.;
Saturdays from 9 a.m, to 8 p.m.

Post Office Savings' Bank. — Open from 9 a. m to 6 p.m.

Postal Telegraph Office. — Open from 7 a.m, to 8 p.m.
Sundays from 8 to 10 a,m.

PUBLIC BODIES, SOCIETIES, ETC, 119

CAB FARES IN AND OUT OF THE BURGH.

FARES FOB ONE HORSE FOUR WHEELED CARRIAGE.

1. By DiSTAMCE, — A party not exceeding two grown up peraons,
and without any luggage, other than a carpet-bag or the like, hiring
a carriage at a stance, or when driven along disengaged, to be driven
to any place within the boundary of the burgh, One Shilling; and if
they return another Shilling. This charge to include going from the
nearest stance to the hirer's residence, and waiting ten minutes, but
if the carriage be detained in starting more than the ten minutes,
or kept waiting for the return of the passenger more than ten minutes,
a charge of waiting at the rate of Sixpence for each quarter of an hour
or part thereof, i ft^r the expiry of ten minutes shall be allowed.

When a carriage is called, but not used, Sixpence, if the place be
under half-a-m.ile from the stance ; if more One Shilling,

FOR STOPPING OR CALLING WITHIN THE BURGH.

2. By I'ime. — For the first quarter of an hour, One Shilling j for
every additional quarter of an hour, Sixpence.

For an airing into the country, within eight miles of the Town-
house of Helensburgh, and returning either by the same or a different
road, One Shilling for the first quarter of an hour, and Sixpencce for
every subsequent quarter of an hour. Unless the hirer wishes a slow
rate of driving, the pace shall at least be six miles an hour. This
clause not to refer to parties on business, or who do not return by
the cab.

Whether by distance or time, the hirer pays tolls.

No charge to be made for drivers.

If more than four growingjup persons. Sixpence extra for each addi-
tional one, or for each two children above six and under twelve yea,rs
of age. No additional for ono child above six, or children under six.

Luggage under fifty-six (56) lbs. , free ; above 55 lbs., Sixpence.

From 11 at night till six in the morning, double fare.

POPULATION IN 187L

Males. Females. Total

Row Parish (Landward), 898 1 1 86 2084

Helensburgh 2536 3428 5970

8054
Parliamentary Constituency in Row Parish, about 550; Municipal, 7oQ

»

Including Ardencaple and Ardenconnal Estates.

TiOo Miles from Helenshurgh — west

Adams, Mrs, Beechwood Cottage

Allan, Walter, Gardener, Rowmore

Ardeucaple Toll — J. Murrie

Armour, James, gardener

Blatlierv/ick, Charles, M.D. Dunaivon Cottage

Broad; Packard, Cumberland Terrace,

Brown, James, Higli Laggary

Calderwood, J., coachman, Clifton Cottage

Caldwell, James, Auchengare

Campbell, J., gardener, Ardencaple

Campbell, John, church officer

Cyrbet, Robert, Arroi Cottage

Carroll, Mrs, Dunmore, Cumberland Terrace.

Clark, William, gardener

Cochran, Andrew, joiner, Beechwood Cottage

Cochran, Malcolm, Point Cottage

Cochrane, Mrs,

Collins, J. H„ Yiew Park

Colquhoun, Angus, collector of Pier dues

Couper, William, Woodstone

Cribbs, Matthew, coachman, Ferniegair

Dalglish, Miss, Dutirowan

Dennistoun, Richard, Pi;Owmore Cottage

Dennistoun, A. H., Roselea, J. P.

Douglas, R. D., Cumberland Terrace

Drew, Peter, Ardencaple House, J.P,

Duke, Mr, Cumberland Terrace

Dundas, Miss Hamilton, Aldownick

Edye, Captain, R.N., Artarman

Elliot, Robert, gardener

Established Church — Rev. J, Laurie Fogo

Ewing, H. E. Crum, Ardencaple Castle, Lord Lieutenant of

Dunbartonshire
Ewing, William Orr, Row Lodge

EOVV DIRECTORY. 121

Bryden, John, gardener, Glenoran

Cameron, David, coachman, Ardencaple Castle

Carson, David, Ardencaple Lodge

Colquhoun, James, coachman, Dalmore

Fletcher, Mr, Cumberland Terrace

Fogo, Rev. J. Laurie

Fraser, William, teacher

Gay, Mrs

Gillies, Mrs, Old Torr

Gilmour, John, Mount Ternon, J,P,

Glen, James, farmer, Letterwell,

Gordon, John, Ardenconnal

Gourlay, James, Ardenconnal

Halliday^ John, gardener

Hamilton_, George W., Auchinlea

Hamilton, John, Woodcliff

Hamilton, Mrs, Armadale

Hamilton, Mrs, Laggary

Hannay, Mrs, Hazelwood Cottage

Hatherlay, Joseph, Cumberland Terrace

Hutchison, William, Old Torr

Jamieson, Captain, Hollylee

Johnston, Mrs, Old Torr

Kennedy, Donald, Old Torf,

Kidd, William^ gardener^ Woodstone

Kidston, Charles, Glenoran

Kidston, Richard, Ferniegair, J, P.

Kidston, William, Ferniegair, J, P.

Kidston, Miss, Ferniegair

Knox, Alexander, mason

Lang, J., gardener, Torrwood

Leadbetter, Mrs, Ardenmore

Liardet, Lieutenant, R.I^,, Ardenmore Cottage

Lindsay, John,

Listen, Harry, gardener, Inchalloch

122 ROW DIRECTORY^

Little, R., Dalmore

MacGeorge, Andrew, Glenarn

Macreadie^ James, coachman^ Ardenvhor

Macreadie_, Misses, Dunrowaa

Macreadie, John, Dalarne

Millar, Mr, High Laggary

Millar, Mr, gardener, Ardenconnal

Morrison, Duncan

Moultrie, William, Green Cottage

Muir, M. A., Ardenvhor

M^Auslan, Mrs, Row Hotel

M' Galium, Alexander, gardener, Cairndh«>

M'Dougall, Alexander

M'Dougall, Miss, Post Office

M'Farlane, Duncan, farmer, Torr

M'Farlane, Malcolm, blacksmith

M'Farquhar, Mrs, Dunmore

M'Geehan, Hugh, mason, Beech wood Cottage

McGregor, Peter, gardener, View Park

M'Quilkin, Walter, gardener

M'llvean, Walter, boot and shoemaker

M'Kellar, John, gardener, Lagarie

M'Kellar, Mrs,

M'Kenzie, Alexander, gai'dener, Dalmore

M'Kenzie, John, gardener, Armadale

M'Lachlan, Mrs, Kirk Park

M'Lennan, Martin, Glebeside

M'^Lean, Donald, gardener, Armadale

M'Lellan, Archibald, gardener

M'Leod, Donald, gardener, Artarman

M'Leod, Duncan

Nisbet, Alexander, Clifton Cottage

Niven, William, gardener, Lagarie

Parry, Captain J. P. Jones, E.N., Beech wood Cottage

Farlane, William, Glebeside

Pettie, Misses, Kirk Park

Post Office, Miss M^Dougall

BOW DIRECTORY, \2^.

jReid, Miss, XJlston Grove

Rigby, Mrs, Dunard

Kobertson, James, gardener. Ferniegair

Robertson, James, gardener, Glenoran

Hobertson, Robert, coacliman, Glenoran

Row Hotel, Mrs M^Auslan

Row, Public School, William Eraser

Sbaw, William, gardener, Row Lodge

Bammells, William, Cumberland Terrace

Cellars, George, blacksmith

Smith, A., Artarman

Smith, Joseph, Cumberland Terrace

Smith, J., High Lagarie

Smith, William, butler, Kirk Park

Spearing, Henry, waiter, Kirk Park

Spy, Duncan, mason. Kirk Park

Spy, Isaac, Glebeside

Spy, Miss, Sewing Mistress

Stafford, James

Stewart, James, gamekeeper, Ardencapl©

Stewart, Peter, mason, Old Torr

Stewart, Mrs, Ardencaple Farm

Studley, Mr, Cumberland Terrace

Taylor, John, gardener, Ardencaple Caatl©

Taylor, John, mason

Thomson, Andrew, Ardenvohr Lodge

Thompson, Seton, Lagarie

Ure, John, J. P., Carindhu

Wallis, Benjamin, Cumberland Terrace

Watson, Sir James, Broomknowe

Watson, Thomas, Inchalloch

Winter, James, gardener, Ardenvohr

White, John, Ardencaple Farm

Young, Mrs, Rowmore

Young, MisSj Glebeside

124 SHANDON DIRECTORY.

ilOW WATER COMMITTEE,

John (rilmour, Esq, Convener
jhei^. Dennistoun, Esq.
James Gourlay, Esq., Row^
Matthew Muir, Esq.*
Duncan M'Faiiane, Esq

Andrew M'Greorge> Esq.
Alex. Nisbet, Esq.
Thomas AYatson, Esq.
James Caldwell, Esq.
Alex. M'Doiigall, Esq.

John Lindsay, Collector* Wm. Murr£iy Manager of Work

SHANDON.

Including BlaIrvaddick and Easlane I^state^.

Five Miles from Helensburgh, west.

Omnibus leaves Helensburgh at 5 p.m. daily ; leaves Old Toll;,

Shandon, at 7-50 a.m., in connection with the 9 a.m. train.

Archibald, Geofge^ gardener, Croy
Bailie, Mrs, John, Jamieson's Cottage
Bailie, Miss, dressmaker, Jamieson's Cottage
Barr, John, coachman, Garemount
Brechin, Rev. John, Free Church
Brodie, Andrew, keeper, Bolernick
Brown, Hugh, coachman Belmore
Bryce, James, gardener, Letrualt
Cameron, Donald, gardener, Sumraerhill
Cavana_, Robert, coachman, Woodburn
Cochran, Archibald, Chapelburn^
Colquhoun, Angus, Ardenconnal Lodge
Cowan, Alexander, Glenfeulan
Cowan, John Black, M.D., J. P., Greenhill
Crichton, Charles, gardener, Blarvaddick
Cunningham, Miss, Woodburn
Cuthill, Lawrence, Bolernick Farm
Dick, John, Shandon Bank
Duncan, Walter, gardener, Garemount
Fisher, Andrew, coachman^ Lagbouie

SHANDON DIRECTORY, 125

Free Chyrcli, Kev. John Brechin

M^Gee, Manus, gardener, Berriedale

Gillies, Malcolm, labourer^ Shandon IIo^s©

Glen, John^ Letterwell

Glen, Robert^ StuckindufF Farm

Hamilton, James, M'Kinlay's Land

Hannighen, Mrs, West Shandon Lodge

Hartley, Mrs^ Letrualt

Hoag, John, coachman, Blairvaddick

Hunter, George, gardener, Broomfield

Jamieson, William, J.P, Shandon House

Johnston, David, Croy

Keith, Duncan, church officer

Kerr, James, Ardgare,

Ley, John, butler. West Shandon

MacLellan, John Alexander, Craigmor©

Macleod, Professor George, H.B., M.D„ F.B.O.S., Funnery

Mathieson, John, J.P, Ardgare

Marshall, William, gardener, Greenhill

Maxwell, James^ gardener. West Shandon

Maxwell, Thomas, gardener, Ardgare

Miller, Dr. Hugh, J. P., Broomfield

Munroe, Alexander^ grocer

M'Donald, John, Belmore

McDonald, Mrs, Norman

M*^ Donald, Mrs, Belmore

M'Donald, Boderick, gardener, Bhandon House

M'Farlane, Alexan,der, Bolernick Cottage

M'Farlane, John, Lennox Bank, Fasiane

M'GeorgO;, James, M'Kinlay's Land

M'Kellar, Hugh, M'Kinlay's Land

M 'Phaii, Donald, gardener, Funnery

M'Pherson, Alexander, Woodside Cottage

M'Kenzie, Donald^ gardener, Broomknowe

M'Kinlay, Duncan, ferryman

M'Lellan, Mrs, Craigmore

M'Lellan, Walter, J, P., Blaii'vaddick

1^6 iGARELOCittHEAD DlRECl^ORt,

M'Lellan, Miss-, Oakbank

M'Nicol, John, plougliman, West Sliandon

Napier, Robert, West Sliandon

Neil, James coachman, Glenfeulan

Omnibus Station^ Old Toll

Reid, James, Berriedale

Robertson, Donald, gardener, Glenfeulan

Ross, Hugh, gardener, Ardchapel

Scoular, Andrew, coachman, Greenhill

Sinclair, Duncan Leigh, Bolernick Farm

Shaw, Archibald, shepherd, Bolernick Cottage

Swan, William, LL.D., Professor of Natural Philosophy,

University, St. Andrews, Ardchapel, Sliandon
Taylor, Mrs Henry, Stuckinduff
Taylor, Mr, gardener Linburn
Thomson, Mrs, Linburn

Thomson, Thomas, coachman, West Sliandon
Turner, Duncan, Lagbouie
Yallance, Thomas^ road surfaceman, Old Toll
Watson, Gavin, gatdener, Letrualt
Walker, Mrs, G. Lyon, Garemount
Weild, Mrs, Summerhill
Weir, Archibald, ploughman. Hill Cottage

GARELOCH-HEAD.

Eight Miles from Helensburgh — w^st,,
Aitken, Mrs, Woodbank
Berry, Captain Thomas, Smithfield
Berry, John, Dunivard
Borland, J. C, Dunivard House
Bowling Club, J. C. Borland
Brown, R, B,, J. P., Bendarroch

GARELOCHHEAD DIRECTORY. 12T

Bi'Otvii, Robert, slater

Buchanan, John, mason^ Fernbreck

Caird, E., J, P., Finnart

Cameron, Angus, hotel and pier master'

Campbell^ Archibald, Ash Tree Cottage

Campell, Captain Duncati, Roseland

Campbell, Mrs, Allan

Campbell, Alexander, Woodlee

Campbell, Neil, Kilmalee

Campbell, Malcolm

Campbell, Mrs, Craigellan

Campbell, John^ Lockhart, feuar, Bathurst

Campbell, P., feuar

Campbell, Mrs A., Roseland

Chisholm, J., Bloomfield

Clark, Peterj

Clement, Andrew, Mambeg

Colquhoun, Miss, Elderberry Cottage

Collector of Pier Dues, Angus Cameron,

Connor, John, Schoolhouse

Craig, Mrs, Craigielea

Cruickshank^ J, Glencairn House

Donaldson, James

Established Churchy E,ey. J, Paisley

Frazer, D<

Fraser, JameS; Spring Bank

Gailey, John, Restaurant

Gilmour, Alexander Smith, Oakfield

Grabowsky, Ernest Adolphus, Woodlea

Halket, Thomas, Glencairn Cottage

Hamilton, James, feuar

Hamilton, John, joiner

Hamilton, Robert, joiner

Hamilton, William, joiner

Hardley, John, engineer, Woodlea

Henderson, James, Rowmore

Kemp, D.J Argyle Cottage

128 GARELOCHHEAD DIRECTORY,

.Kenney, Henry, Inkerman Cottage

Kennedy, Mrs W., grocer and baker

Kerr, Mr, Gov; an Bank

Kilpatrick, Rev. David, Free Chnrch Manse

Kirkland, George, i^ldaA-hu

Leitch, Archibald, New York Cottagej

Lemon^ J., Woodland Cottage

Leslie, James, carter

Logan, William, Laurel Bank

Macdonald, Mrs, Belmore

Macfarlane, Mrs

Macfarlane, John, Faslane, and Lennox. Ban t

Maclachlan, Miss, Loch view Villa

Mantague, John, Woodlee Place

Monroe^ Duncan, shoemaker

Myers, D., Elm Grove

M'A-llister, William, gardener, Ardarroch,

M''Anlay, Aulay^ Fernicary House

M'Aulay, Daniel, Fernicary

M'Aulay, Robert, Dunchattan Cottage

M'Call, S. & W., Dalnadhui

M'Christie, J., Lochview House

M'^Connell, John, High Rowmore House

M'Dougall, Daniel, Bathurst Cottage

M'Fadyen, Alexander, gardener

M'^Farlane, Duncan, Strone

M'Farlane, Duncan, Greenfield

M'Glashan, D. & A., tailors.

M'Gillivray, Charles,

M'Intyre, D., forrester

M'Kechan, Finlay, grocer

M'Kinlay, Captain D., Heatherbank

M'Kinlay, Mrs Draught House

M'Lachlan, D. Baker

M'Lachlan, John, Boatman

McLean, A.

M'Lean, Wm., Constable

M'Lellan, John, Post Office

^AKELOCHHEAjD DIRECTOKY, 129

M'Millan, William, builder

M'Nab, F, &J)., ferrymen, Portancaple

MTherson, Mrs, Lochside Cottage

M'JS"ab, I),^ Koselaud

M'Phee, J., Turner Villa

M'Phun, David, grocer and flesher

M'Phun, Finlay, postman

M'PhuUj John, Oaklea Cottage

M'Tague, John, Woodlea

M ' Vicar ;D,, mason

Paisley, Kev, J., Glenald

Paterson, John, Bendarroch Lodge

Paterson, Joseph, feuar

Post Office— Dayid M'Phun

Pow, John, gardener, Finnart

Proran, C, Fairy knowe

Rennie, William^, Ash Pank Cottage

Robertson, Axchibald> Rock House

Robertson, Mrs, Burnside

Roy, "William, grocer and feuar

Scotland, James, Woodlea

Shaw, Mr, Ballernick, Cottage

Smith, Hugh, Raefield

Smith, D,

Smith, Mr, Glencairn, House

Spy, James

Stalker, Archibald, tailor, Fernbreck

Stark, Wm., Roseland

Stewart, Mr, Rowantree Cottage

Stewart, Miss, Rowmore Cottage

Stobo, William, Somerset House

Toll, Mrs, Cowan

Turner, C. J., Woodburn-

Ure, Archibald, gardener

Watt, W. Rosebank

Watson, Alexandar, coachman, Ardarroch

Watson, Miss, Lily Bank Cottage

Whelden, Daniel, Roseland

130 BOSENEATH DIRE€TORTc

White, J,, Ardarroch
Wilson, Captain
Wink, Mrs, Roanmore Cottage
Wright, Mrs, Whistlefield
Young, Thomas, Lorn Villa
Young, Miss, Biblewoman

ROSENEATH.

Situated opposite Bow — near access by Ferry, or hy Staamer

from Helensburgh.
Anderson, James, roadman, Hill of Campsail
Angus, Peter, Clandrag Cottage
Argyll, Duke of, Eoseneath Castle
Armour, Mrs, Glen Avon
Austin, Mrs, Laurel Bank
Begg, Robert, Victoria Buildings, Clynder
Bell, Matthew, joiner
Blane, Mrs, grocer, Bahane
Brabender, John, smith, Clachan
Brodie^ Mrs, Spring-bank, Clynder
Brown, Sir Wm,, Boseneath Castle

Campbell, Duncan, agent for the Duke of Argyll_, Willow-
burn
Campbell, John D., J. P. (of Peaton), Gareloch House
Campbell, James, feuar, Stroul
Campbell, JameSj feuar, Crossowan,
Campbell, Malcolm, Stroul Farm
Campbell, William, Primrose Bank, Bahane
Campbell, Mrs, Achnashie
Campbell, Mrs, Campbell's Villas
Campbell, Mrs B., Stroul Cottage
Campbell, Miss, Female School
Campbell, Misses, Glengair
Cassels, Mr, Glenowan Cottage
Chalmers^ Archibald, cab proprietor, Clynder
Chalmers, Robert, farmer, Little Rahane
Chalmers, William, gardener to the Duke of Argyll

JROSENEATH DIRECTORY. I3l

tjliaimers, William^ piermaster, Clynder

Clark, John, gardener to Mr Renton, Maybank

Clement, Mr, Mamor^ & Mambeg Farms

Cree, Alexander, Woodneuck

Gumming, Thomas, gardener to Rev. Dr^ Story

Cunningham, Matthew, Stroul

Dick, Mr, Glenowan

Ekhout, Mr, Rosebank Terrace

Established Church, — Rev, Dr. Story

Established Church School — William Stewart

Ferry — Willisim Whyte, spirit dealer

Finlay, Mr, Auchnacloich

Fitzgerald, Mrs, Kenmuir Cottage

Forbes, Mr^ Portkill Cottage

Eraser, Mr^ Roseneath Farm

Free Church— Rev. John M'Ewaii

Girdwood, Mrs, Laurel Bank

Gossling, Barker, Aitkenshaw

Gossling, G. <J., surgeon^ Aitkenshaw

Gray & Body, grocers^ Cljmder ; house, Clandarg Cottage

Henderson, D., gardener, Glengair

Henry, Mrs, Annachmore House

Hill, Mrs, Frith Cottage

Howie, Matthew, Clachan Farm

Kerr, Miss, Springfield

Lennie, Mrs, Lome Yilla

Livingstone, John, fisherman, Rahane

Mair, Miss, Forrester's Cottage, Campsail

Maughan, W» Ci, C.A., Kilarden

Meal Mill— Robert M'Neilage

Monteith, Henry, Monteith Cottage

Monti, Mr de, Altmore House

Morgan, John, gardener

Morrison, Robert^ grocer, Clyndei-

M'Arthui*, John, Springfield House, Clynder*

M'Arthur, Mrs, Wooclend Cottage, Rahane

M'Aulay, John, Clachan Farm

M'Cunn, John Fernbank

135 EOSENEATH DIRECTORY,

M 'Donald, John, farmer, Meikle Hahane
M'Dougal, Miss, grocer, Clachan
M'Ewan, Kev. John, Free Church
M'Farlane, Donald, carter, Clachan
M'Farlane, John, ploughman, Clachan
M'Farlane, John, Kahane Cottage
M'Farlane, John, 2 Clynder Terrace
M'Intyre, Walter, precentor, Clachan
M'Kellar, Donald, gravedigger, Hill of Campsail
M'Kellar, James, joiner, Clynder
M'Kenzie, John, gardener, Biirutmill
M'Lean, John, joiner, Clachan
M'Lean, Mrs, Hill of Campsail
M'Lellan, Peter, Stroul Yilla
M'Neil, John, gardener, Clynder
M'Neilage, Robert, miller
Parker Mrs, Armadale Villa
Pollock, Thomas, gardener, to Mr Reid
Post Office— John M'Lean
Rae, G., Oakbank Cottage, Rahane
Rae, Miss, Clynder House
• Ravie, Duncan^ joiner to the Duke of Argyll, Roseb?ink

Cottage
Registrar — William Stewart, School House
Reid, Frank, Elmbank
Reid, Andrew Patersori., Tighnamara
Renton, John, Mayhank Cottage
Robertson, George, Stroul Lodge
Robertson, Mr, Flower Bank
Robertson, Mrs, Ferndell
Smith, Donald, joiner, Clachan
Smith, Mrs, Woodside Cottage
Stewart, William, parish schoolmaster
Story, Rev, Dr., The Manse
Story, Mrs, Kenmuir Cottage
Sutherland, Mrs, Clynder View
Taylor, Malcolm, Letter Farm
Temperance Hotel, Clynder

COVE AND KILCKEGGAN DIRECTORY. 133

¥liom, E-obert, of Barremman^J.P.

^hom, K. W. Barremman, J. P.

Turner, Neil, 1 Clynder Terrace

burner) Robert, sboemaker, Clynder

Turner, Mrs, Stroul

Walker, Malcolm, Stfoul Villa

Walker, John

White, William, feriyman & spirit dealer

Wilson, Misses^ Whitelea

Wilson, Mr, Glenowan

Yuille, David, Flower Bank

COVE AND KILGREGGAN.

Six miles from Helensburgh by Soi'j and Hoseneatkn.
Abercromby, A. Ains worth, Craigrownie Castle, Cove
Addie, Miss, Carradale, Kilcreggan
Alexander, Henry, Woodside Lodge, Cove
Anderson, David, Knockderry, J.P,, Cove
Anderson, Mrs Dundas, Kilcreggan
Arthur, Mrs^ Glenlea, Kilcreggan
Bain, George, South Ailey, Cove
Bird, Gregory, Grafton Lodge, „
Blackie, E-obert, J.P., Ferndean, ,}
Blackwood, Alexander, butcher, „
Boyd, Miss, Aiden Burn, Kilcreggan
Boyd, Mrs, Greenhiil, Kilcreggan
Brown, Miss, Primrose Bank, Kilcreggan
Burns, Miss, Cove Cottage
Campbell, Charles, Warrambien
Campbell, Donald, Little Aiden, Kilcreggan
Campbell, George, Fisherman's Cottage, Barbouf Shore
Campbell, Miss, Seymour Lodge, Cove
Chalmers, John, Holly Bank, Kilcreggan
Christie, J. FyfFe, Clyde Homej „
Clark, Robert, Ivy Hill, ,-,

Cochrane, Mr, North Ailey, Cove

Cook, Charles, gas manager, ,,

Corbet, Thomas, J.P,, South Park, ,,

134 COVE AND KILCREGGAN DIRECTORY^

Couper, Miss, Rocklea, Cove

Cove Pier— Donaldson Gray

Cniickshank, James, Primrose Bank, Kilcreggan,

Cumming, Mrs^, Cove Cottage, Cove

Currie, D., grocer, ,,

Denham, V/illiam, Argyle Cottage

Donaldson^ James, gardener, Ardenlea, iCilcreggan,

Donaldson, Alexander, J. P., Heathiield, „

Donaldson, Robert, Woodbine Cottage, „

Douglas, James Brydon, Ellangowan

Duncan, J. Thomson. Lucerne Yilla, Cove

Dymock, Mrs, Belmont, Kilcreggan

Fergus, Dr., Clairmount Cove

Ferguson, Mrs, Seaview, Kilcreggan,

Finlay, Miss, Stratblea, Cove

Finlayson, Mrs, Craigievar, JCilcreggan

Fleming, Isaac, baker, Cove and Kilcreggan,;

Frame, William, Aiden Cottage ,,

Fraser, John, Auchengower, Cove

J'ree Church School — Williani M'Cracken

Galbraith, Mr, Clyde Bank Yilla, Kilci-eggan

Gibb, Mrs, Argyle Buildings, „

Gordon, Thomas, Park Place, Cove

Gray, Donaldson, piermaster and carriage hirer, Cove-

Gow, Mrs, Anchendarroch, X^ilcreggan,

Graha,m, James, Ardenclutha,, „

Groundwater, Mr Dundas „

Harrow, Captain David, Woodend, „

Harrow, James, Aiden Grove „

Harvey, Robert, grocer. Cove Post Office

Henderson, J., Inspector of Poor Board House, Kilcreggani

Hunter, William, carriage hirer, Seaview, Kilcreggan

Hunter, William, Maybank, Kilcreggan

Jackson, James, Ardmore, ;,,

Johnston, Mrs, Carlton, „

Keith, Miss, milliner, Janefield „

Kerr, A,, shoemaker, ,^

Kibble, John, Letter House, Locli Long

COVE AND KILCREGGAN DIRECTORl"o 1 35

Kidd, Thomas, Mount Alley, Cove

Kilcreggan Pier — James Irvine

Elinloch, Mr^ Lethington

King;, Mr, Ai-gyk Buildings^ Kilereggan-

Laresclie, Mr, Woodlands^ j,

Lamont, Mrs, Lindowan, „

Lang, George, Oaklea, „

Lang, William, The Copse, „.

Leckie, Alexander, Thornbank_, „

Learmonth, R. , Yiewfield Cottage ,,,.

Letham^ Miss, Janefield, ,,-

Ljle, Mrs, Greengrocer ,,

Marquis, Archibald, Ferryman, Coulport'

Martin,,, Mr, Claremount_, Cove

Martin, Mrs, Linn Yilla, „

Millar, John, E-osebank, Kilcreggan

Millar, Baillie, Knockderry Castle, Cove

Millar, Gavin, B. Belcairn, Cove

Mitchell, Mrs Alexander, Wintoun House, Kilcreggaa

Moncrieff, Mrs, Windsor, Kilcreggaa

Muirwood, J., Armadale

Murchy, John, J,P., Deepden

M'Adam, William, baker

M 'Arthur, Donald, Shanton Cottage, Cove

M 'Arthur, Mrs, Burncliff Cottage, „

M'Clure, Robert, Kirklea, „

M'Cracken, William, School House, Kilcreggan

M'Crone, Mr, Craigallan • „

M'Culloch, Mr, Bloomfield, Cove

M'llroy, John, Craigrownie Cottage

M'Farlane, Alexander, Oakbank, Kilcreggan;

M'Farlane, John, Glendhu Cottage, „

M'Farlane, Mrs James, Ferry House, „

M'Gaan, John, Elleray

M'Kellar, John,. Greenbank, Kilcreggan;

M'Kenzie, Dr., Rockburn „

M'Ken2?ie, John, Duchlage

M 'Killer, Mrs, Fish Shop „•,

136 COVE AND KILCREGGAN DIRECTORY.

M'Lachlan, J., plumber, Cove

M'Lean, Alexander, Glen Dhiialt, Cove

M'Lean, Mrs, Seaview, Kilcreggan

M'Lellan, Adam, Albert Park, Kilcreggan

M'Lean, J,, boatbuilder and grocer, Kilcreggan

M'Nair, Mr, Knockderry Farm, Cove

M'Neilage, Archibald, Clerk & Treasurer to scliool boai'll

Fernbank, Kilcreggan
Newman, Dr., Italian Villa, Cove
Ovenstone, Captain, Huddersfield, Kilcreggan
Orr, Robert, Meikle Aiden, Kilcreggan
Osborne, Alexander, Brookyale, Cove
Patterson, Miss, Lorn Villa, Kilcreggan
Patterson, John, Daisy Bank, Kilcreggan
Patterson, Mr, Belgrove, Cove
Post Office — Andrew Kerr
Post Office, Cove — Robert Harvey
Irvine, James, Kilcreggan Pier
Public Reading Room and Library— Cove
Ramsay, Miss M., Lindowan, Kilcreggan
Reid, Jolm, Dunarden, Cove
Ricbardson^ David, Hartfield, Cove
Robertson, Mr, Aiden Cottage, Kilcreggan
Robertson, Robert, W., J.P,; Rockingham, Kilcreggan
Roy, James, Balgair, Kilcreggan
Scrimgeour, Charles, Benvue, Kilcreggan
Shanks, Rev, David, Established Church Manse, Cove
Sharp, Miss, Woodburn, Kilcreggan
Smith, James, Finnartmore, Kilcreggan
Sommerville, Mr, Lindowan, „

Spy, Aaron, painter. Cove '
Stewart, Mrs, Yilla Marina, Kilcreggan
Steel, John, St. Kilda, ,,

Stirling, John, Annfield, ,,

Summerville, Mr, butcher, Argyle Buildings, Kilcreggan
Taylor, Mr, Milnaveulin, Coulport

Temperance Hotel, Argyle Buildings, Kilcreggan, Mrs King
Thompson, George, BaronclifF^ J,P,, Cove

GLEN FKUIN DIRECTORY. 157

Tliompson, Mrs, E,ockbiirn, Kilcreggan

Turner, Miss, Braeside Villa, Cove

Walls, John, Glenrowan,, „

Walker, David, Aideukyie, Kilcreggan

Warden, Mrs, Edenvale

Walker, J,, Ardpeaton

Warden, Robert, Aiden Cottage, Kilcreggan

Watson, Mr, Hazelclilf, Cove 1

White, William, Lilly Bank Cottage

Young, Robert, plumber, Cove

Young, Rev, Forrest F., XJ,P. Manse, Kilcreggan

Yuille, Miss, Miliinerj Argyll Buildings, ,,

BURGH OF COYE AND KILCREGGAK

John Murciiie, Esq., Provost.

Eallies,

Samuel Carson, Esq. | David Galbraith, Esq.

- COMMISSIOHEKS,

Messrs Robert Clark.
John Murchie,
David Galbraith.
C. Scrimgeour,

Messrs Samuel Carson.
George Laug,
Alexander Osborne,
Robert Blackie.
George Thomson.

Clerk—Mr W. M^Cracken. Treasurer— Mr W. Graham. C.A.

GLEN FRUO.

Between Helensburgh and Luss,
Battison, Walter, East Kilbride
Campbell, Peter, Daligan
Glen, John, Highfields
Grange, A., East Bannachra,

Jardine, Andrew, jun., Ballymenoch f ^

M'Aslane, John, Tnverlauren

M'Farlane, Duncan Strone j

M*Farlane, John, Durling

138 LUSS DIRECTORY.

M'Nauglit, Arclnbald, Drumfad
Niven, James, Blaimairii

L U SS .

Nine miles from Helensburgh

Axroquhar Hotel — John M'Nabb

Barclay, Henry, M,D., Arrochar

Begg, EoLert, Blarnyle

Buchanan, Charles, Shegartan

Cairns, Mrs, Boiden

Canipbell, Rev. Duncan, Luss Manse

Colquhoun, George, Shemore

Colquhoun, Sii* James, Bart., J. P., Pxossdhu

Oolquhoun, William, J P., Rossdhu

Established Church— Rev. Duncan Campbell

Free Clnuch— Rev. Neil Stewart

(Galbraith, James, Edintaggart

Gray, R., Dumfin Mill

Granger^ James, Tulloch, Arrochar

Hogg, William, Muirland School

Lang, George, Little Dumfin

Lennox, James, Doune

J^ennox, Robert, Shantrone

Menzies, James, Auchengovin
Montgomery, W, Little Dumfin
M' Arthur, John, Glendoun
Munn, Nicol, Arnburn
M'Connochie, James, Nether Ross
M'Ewan, Archibald, Inchtavanock,
M'Farlane, Alexander, Hill House
M'Farlane, Duncan, of Camstradden

M'Farlane, Darroch Cottage

M'Indoe, James, Glenmolachan
M'Lefin, Robert, Craggan, Arrochar
M'Lellan, James, wood merchant, Dumfin
M'Murrich, James, J.P,, of Stuekgowan

CARDROSS DIRECTORY. 139

M'Nab, Donald, DucLlage ^^

M'Nab, Robert — Luss Inn
M'Plierson, Mrs, Tarbet Hotel

Kitcbie, , Culag

Ross, David, gamekeepeer, Gallaliill
Stewart, Rev,, Neil, Free Church Manse

Templeton, , Camstradden Slate Quarries

Walker, Adam, Auchintullich Natra
Williamson, Robert, Auchintullich na Moan
Wylie, Andrew, J, P., Camstradden House
Wilson, Archibald, Rossarden

CARDROSS.

Three Miles from Helensburgh — east
Barr, Peter, boatman
Brand, David, grocer
Bryce, William, Blacksmith, Colgrain
Buchanan, Robert, teacher
Burns, J. W, J. P., Kilmahew
Caid«r, James, Colgrain
Calder, William, Braehead
Campbell, Colin, J. P., Camis-Eskan
Cardross Inn— John King
Clark, Peter, Burnbank House
Colquhoun, Walter, farmer Kilmahew
Crerar, Rev. Thomas, Free Church Manse
CuUen, William, High Milndovan

Cuthill, William, grieve to Colin Campbell, Camis-Eskan
Ferguson, Mr, Kipperoch
Davie, Alexander, boatman
Davie, James, Geilston
Davie, John, Walton
Donaldson, Mrs, Keppoch
Dunkp, Mrs, Albyn Villa
Dunn, Rev. William, The Manse
Esta,blished Church — Rev. William Dunn
Ferrier, Alexander, miller, Cardross Mill

CARDROSS DIRECTORY 140

Pleming, John, gardener to J, W. Burns, Kilmaliew

Free Church — Rev. Thomas Crerar

Frew, Forrest, J. P., Lyieston House

Fletcher, Dr, Ardoch

Giles, Mrs, of Ardmore, Ardardan House

Gilmour, James, Geilston Tile Work

Glen, William, farmer, Wallacetown*

Oovan, Mrs, Lea

Gourlay, Mrs, Auchenfroe

Graham, David, Auchensail

Harvie, William, Low Milndovan

Houston, Mrs John, farmer, Geilston

Kenneth, YVilliam, Lea Bank

King, Jolin, Cardross Inn

Lennox, James, farmer, Wester Hill

Lennox, Peter, farmer Kirkton

Ijogan, James, slater

Martin, J. M., J. P.. Bloomhill

Meikle, Thomas, Barrs

Muir, John, Drumfork Farm

Montgomery, gardener, Glen Nursery

Morrison, Mrs, Hopewell Cottage

Murray, David, Moore Park

MacBryan, J. B., Cardross Park

M'Arthur, Peter, Hawthornhill

M 'Don gall, Eonald, Clyde View Villa

M'Farlane, John, farmer, Murrays

M'lntyre, Daniel, SeaSeld

M'lntyre, Duncan, grocer

M'Intyre, James, farmer, Lyieston

M,Lityre, John, timber merchant, Geilston

M'Intyre, William, farmer, Ardoch

M'Kinlay, Captain John, Spring Villa

M'Kinlay, William, farmer, Ardoch

M'Leod, William, Cardross ^

M'Neilj James, Ardmore House

M'Ouat, James, farmer, Ardoch

l^iven, John, Craigend " ' " _

CARDROSS DIRECTORY. lAX

Paul, John, station master
Russell, A, C, Oardross Yilla
Shields, Peter, grieve, Darleith

Service, John, Woodside ^

Snodgrass, Allan, farmer, Mollandhn

Stevenson, James, Asker

Taylor, Miss, Craigend Cottage . ,4

Traquair, James, Cairnedrouth

Traquair, John, Clyde Bank

Watson, James, Burntry YiUa

Whitelaw, Alexander, Drumhead House

Wilson, Daniel, Flesher ' '^-)

Wilson, Mrs, Balleymenosh House j

Wotherspoon, Robert, Brooks

Wylie, James, Ardoch Cottage <■.

Yuille, Andr^, B., J,P., Darleith, __:^

i*** Advertisements.

SCOTTISH UNION
^m mH^xU %nwMa €!am|>any.

ESTABLISHED 1824.

IN!CO]aF(0)RATE»i JSY EOYAL CKAKTER,

LONDON EDINBURGH DUBLIN

37 CORNHILL. 47 GEORGE ST, 52 DAME ST.

QOYERNQR.

§b 6nia t|e Juke 0! Iamilt0n an& graubcjt.

DBPUTY-GOVfiRNOR.

^c P0st i:0bk t^t '^nxqab ai (^mtmhvix^.

This Company is composed of a numerotis and influential
body of Proprietors, and has a large subscribed Capital,
so that unquestionable security is guaranteed to Insurers.

INVESTED FUNDS at lat August, 1872 .. .. £1,244,000
ANNUAL REVENUE from all sources .. .. 264,426

AMOUNT OF LIFE INSURANCES in force .. SyOOO^QOO

(PItOGItUSS OF TJSE GOM^AJTY:

During the last 10 years the average annual amount of
New Life Business has been £475,000, and during the
same period the Revenue of the Company from all sources
has increased nearly £100,000.

The Company does not transact Foreign Business, tlije
Agencies being entirely confined to the United Kingdom.

A dveriisements. ii •

Have been declared on Seven occasions, at intervals of Five
Years. At the last investigation in 1871 —

A Rsversionary Bonus was allocated upon those Policies entitled
to participate, in proportion to the Premiums paid during
ihe five preceding years, varying from about One to upwards
of One and a-half per cent, per annum on the sums Assured,
according to age and duration- of Policy).

The Reversionary Bonus may be applied, at the option of
tile Assured, in any of the following ways v —

I. It may be. added to the Sum Assnred ; or

2v Applied, in Reduction of Future Premiums ; or

3. Surrendered for its present value in cash.

The, next divisxoi^ &^ Profits will take place in 1876

(DISTIilSTJTIOJ^ OF (PliOFIT3\

n TESIXTHS of the PROFIT, arising from the whole Life
iusiness^ are divided every five years among Participating

policy-holders, in the Proportion each has contributed to the

Fund.

All Policies taken out on the participating Scheme before
31st July in each year will rank for an additional year's
Bonus over later Entrants, at next In^^estigation in 1876.

Copies of Prospectus, and all other Information^ may be ob-
tained at the Offices of the Company, or at any of the
Agencies throughout the Kingdom.

By order of the Directors,

GEORGE RAMSAY, Manager.
JAMES BARLAS, Secretary.
AGENT IN HELENSBLTRGH,

GEORGE MACLAOHLAN, V/riter,

tw. Advertisements.

HOETH BRITISH AND MEEOANTILE

INSURANCE COMPANY.

ESTABLiSHED 1809

Subscribed Capital, - - £2,000,000

Funds as at 31st December, 1872, £3,469,463 14 0

Total Revenue in Fire Depart-
ment for 1872, - - ^ £831,034 18 2^

Fi^E OEPARTIVIENT.

The Company insures almost every description of Pro-
perty at Home or Abroad, at the Lowest Kate of Pre-
mium corresponding to the nature of the Risk.

Foreign Risks — Policies are issued on the most-
favourable terms. A discount is allowed to Merchants
and others effecting such Insurances.

LIFE OEPATiTi^EI^T-

Ninty per cent, of the profits of the Life Business is
divided among the Assured on the Participating Scale,
This is as large a share of the Profits as is allowed by any
Office, and larger than that given by most other Pro-.
prietary Offices. The profits are divided every five years.

ATZumry BEPARTmEUT.

Annuities, immediate, deferred, or contingent, are
granted, and the Rates fi^xed on the most favourable
terms.

Full explanations, Tables of Rates, &c., may be had
at any of the Company's Offices or Agents throughout
the kingdom.

GLASGOW BRANCH.

Office- 3_02 St. "Vincent Street,,

Local 3Ianager~G. \Y. SNODGRilSS.
Local Secretary — D. L. LAIDLAW.

AGENT IN HELENSBURGH,

JAMES 0. STEWART, 1 West King Street.

A dvertisements.

vr

INSURAPICE OOPaPANY;

OFFIQE-a LUDGATE EILIi, LONDON, E.0„
AGENT AT HELENSBURGH,

JAMES SPALDING. Writer.

&RAIH ASP SEED STQBE.

GRAIN MERCHANT,
ROSSBHU- PLAGE,

26 MB 28 EAST lEmOES STEEET,

HELENSBUEGH.

Ill returning thanks for the patronage bestowed en me since
opening the above premises, I embrace this opportunity o£
calling the attention of ro j customers^, and the general public
■who may favour me with their orders^ to my Stock of GHAIN,
MEAL, FLOUE, HAY, STRAW, AGETOULTUEAL
SEEDS, &c., which I assure them they will find of first-class
quality, and at the lowest remunerative prices. All. Orders
that may be ent2:usted to me will meet with prompt attention.

eiORN..

BEANS.

BA.RLEY:

INDIAN CORK

WHITE & BLUE PEAS.

EDINBURGH MEAI*.

AYRSHIRE MEAE.
COUNTRY MEAL.
IRISH MEAL.
BEOSEMEAL.

BEAN MEAL.
INDIAN.MEAL.

THIRDS.

BRAN.,

BRUISED OATS.
EOT BARLEY.
CANADIAN BAR-
REL ir'LO UR.

-r-

-jiry

53 SINeLAIR STREET, Helknsburgh.

B^Sk< and Cirmlars delivered through Town and Country at ihe^hmmis

Charge.

A dvertisements .

X

Dispensing Chemist and 'Pharmaceutist,

HAVING a ttoTcmgli knowledge if Drugs and Cbemicals; and from
the long connectaon he bas had with the best "Wholesale Houses
in London, the purity of every article may be thoroughly depended
on. Only Goods are taken into stock which are of standard quality,
and the various preparations of the Phainaacopoeia may be relied
npon as possessing the full virtue of the purest Drugs.

In compounding them every effort is made to secure accuracy,
■while the regulations under the recent Act of Parliament to prevent
accidents are strictly adhered to.

The Dispensing or P^iEscRiPriONS forms a very important part
of the business, to which special personal attention is given. The
Medical Pbofession and the Public generally m.ay depend on every
Prescription being carefully and faithfully dispensed, the
purest Medicines only being used^ and sent out with the shortest
possible delay.

An exact copy of every Prescription is registered, so that, by
giving the number, a reference, howeverjremote, is always attainable.

Orders from the Country by pout or otherwise carefully and promptly

attended to.

est.a.bii.isjE3::e3X5 is-is.

Advertisements. vi

Helensburgh Apothecaries Hall,
est.a.:bil.zss:ei> issa.

CHEMIST.

c ^^ a ^^ d^ ^1 &^ ^ Sfe

^

PHYSICIANS' PRECRIPTIONS and i:AMILY RE-
CIPES accurately dispensed by the principal, or under
his immediate,' superintendence.

THE NEWEST AND FRESHEST QUALITY.
R E QU IS IT ES.

TOOTH, NAIL, HAIR, AND SHAVINO BRUSHES.

A Large Stock of Turkey and Honey Comb

Sponges, Britisli and Foreign Mineral Waters.

Orders from the Country punctually attended to.

Open from 8 a.m to 8 p.m. Sunday hours from 10>to
11 a.m., 1 to 2, and 5 to 7 p.m.

N.B.— 38 EAST CLYDE STREET,

(Opposite the Established CjauRCH,.),

"▼fi Advertisements.

€ENTHAi APOTHE€AH^ES' HMK

5 SINCLAIR STREET, HELENSBURGH.

DISPENSING CHEMIST.

Any thing new or rare, and not in stock, will be obtaine4
in a day or twOj, on request

Orders from a distance faithfully attended to.

English China, Crystal and Stoneware,

BOSSDEfJ FLAGE, 12 FRINGES STREET,
(opposite the post-office,)

AND 51 WEST OLYDB STREET,
HELENSBURGH.

HORSE SHOEING and JOBBING SMITH,

71 aiNCiLAIE STKKET,

B-:e]31.^$ts:sxj:rg-:b:-
Cab and Oarriaga Hirer, and Oontractor,

12 GLASGOW STREET,

Most respectfully returns his sincere thanks to the public for
the very liberal support he has met with since commencing
.btisiness, and hopes that he will have still a further share cbC
publie patronage.

A dvertisetnetns.

VIU

f i sss©^a:

ssi|^> '©;*ili*

^t

— »-C€!S»^i®%^*«*—

J,l^

^^

In returning' thanks to his numerous Friends in Helens-
burgh and Neighbourhood for the liberal support hebas
received in the pastj begs respectfully to intimate- that
at the above address

IS CARRIED ON IN ALL ITS BRANCHJJS, WITS:

LOEEIES, BPEIia-^VAIS, OAETS, and WAGK^OMS.
Hearses and Mourning Coaches. ^

HORSES KIEF^T ^T ■LXVER.Y.

CHARGES MODEHATE,

ix A dvertisementSs

RESTERATEUR,

(opposite; the r^a^ilavay STA^TIOIST),

HELENSBURGH.

In returning thanks for tlie patronage bestowed on him since
commencing business in 1859, takes this opportunity of in-
timating, that he continues, as foi-merlj'-, to supply

Marriage Luncheons, Dejeneurs,

OF THE NEWEST <& MOST ELEGANT DESIGNS

From his practical knowledge, a,nd lengthened experience in
the best houses in Scotland, lie can assure those favouring him
with their Orders, that he can execute the same in a style
w]iich cannot be surpassed by any in the trade.

Jellies, Creams, Blancmanges, Cream and Water loes,

Cakes of e%ery d-escription ^d[ad.e and. Ox-xiaixiented..

FAMILIES SUPPLIED WITH WiNE, BEER, and
Spirits, of the best quality.

Sole-Agent for the Standard Measure "^ ine Coy.

A dvertisements.

(f^ Tf"

IA3L HOT 11,

FAMILY AND COMMERCIAL,

19 EAST CLYDE STREET, Helensburgh.

npmS New- Appointed HOTEL, near the Station and

facing the Pier, will meet a want long felt in Helensburgh.

Visitors will find every comfort, with Mode7'ate Charges,

JAMES FRASEE. Proprietor.
74 EAST CLYDE STREET,

-^«S.iS^«^t^2-5---

TEMPERANCE HOTEL,

4 WEST CLYDE STREET, HELENSBURGH.

(First-ClasH), commanding some of the finest Scenery on the
Clyde, facing Pier, and two minutes' walk from tlie luiihvMy
.Station. Quiet, comfortable, and Charges strictly Moderata,

W, GATExXBY, Pjiui'iULTv4^

XI

A dverttsements.

mwmr ©w^nHiy^^a

BOOT AND SHOEMAKEE,

2 YOUNG'S PLACE, EAST PKINCES STREET,
HELENSBURGH.

A Large assortment of Gentlemen's Boots and Shoes con-
stantly kept in Stock.
Jobbings neatly executed. Orders promptly attended to.

LADIES' AND GENTS' BOOT & SHOE MAKER,

13 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh.

•Ladies' Dress Boots and Shoes. Misses' and Youths'
Dress Boots. Ladies' House Slippers. Gents Dress,
Military, Hunting, and Shooting Boots.

AND

ME a YOUNG, Surgeon Dentist, L.D.S,, Royal
College of SurgeonSj is now in constant attendance at
Jjis jesidence^

67 W^ST CLYDl STREET,

{Gome* of "Williaixi Street,) HEelenslaxj-rgli,

wliere lie may be consulted on all the Branches of his
Pfvfessioai.

A dveriisementa^

xu

MALT LIQUORS.

1A

FAMILJ GEOOEB,

AND

».i«<!^i»al eb.y ^

3talian lilarehouaeman,
24 WEST CLYDE STREET,

HELENSBURGH,

Family Grocer and Provision Merchant,

General Groceries and Provisions of i;irst Quality at Lowest

Prices.

53 WEST CLYDE STREET, '

HELENSBURGH.

FI'KEST TEA, 3s. id.

YERY F.mi;, 3s.

xiii Advertisements,

FAMILY GROCER & PROVISION MERCHANT,

(LATK WrrH M]a. JOMN WILLIAMSON,

Sauchiehall St. Glasgow)

49 WEST CLYDE STKEET,

Begs most respectfully to thank his Friends, and the Public
generally, for the liberal support he has received since he
Opened these Premises, and hopes, by strict attention to
^Business, and supplying First Class Goods at Moderate
Charges, to receive a further continuan<3e of their favours.

Orders called for daily, if required, and promptly executed
with .personal attention.

Family Bread and Pastry Baker,
•Eossdhn Place, 14 East Princes Street, Helensburgh,

'Family Orders punctually attended t(>.

WILLIAM SMITH,

Family Bread and Pastry Baker^

HELENSBURGH,
FAMILY ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTEISDED TO.

A dveriisemenfs.

XlY

mm BAYmmm,

30 SINCLAIR STREET,

HELEHSByBGH.

ALL ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO.

70s. Scotch Twesd Suits unrivalled for Style & Value.

BERLIN WAREHOUSE,

9 and 11 Sinclair Street, Helensburgh.

Fancy and Bazaar Goods in Great Variety.

Agent for Robert Murray, Dyer.

BERLIN WOOL REPOSITORY,

Eo$$5hu Place, 20 Princes Street, Hetensburgh.

JUST ^^RRIVED,

A New and Large assortment of Fancy and Bazaar Goodie

Agent for Brand and Mollison^

Dyers and CLeauers^ Glasgow,

XT

A dverfisements.

COAL.

COAL.

COAL

FIRST QUALITY ONLY KEPT.

IPI1^TE:ST r'lT DHOSS, Sialtalale Tor Stoves and "Vineries^

FIREWOOD &c.

COAL. GOAL.

Coal Merchant

GOAL

BACK OF RAILWAY STATION,

Families Supplied on Reasonable Terms.

ESTABLISMKD 1861.

COAL.

COAL.

COAL,

COAL MERCHANT.

BACK OF RAILWAY STATION,
HELENSBUEQH.

EST^BLISHliiD 18Sb.

Advertisements. xvi

PURE AERATED WATERS.

A, WILLIAMSON, Junior,

6 WEST CLYDE STREET, HELENSBURGH.

SODA WATER.

POTASS WATER.
SELTZER WATER.

GINGER ALE.

LEMONADE.

AERA TED GINGER BEER

CHEMICAL LABOEATORY.
42 Bath 8trjset,
GLASGOV/, 23rd September, 1874,

I have examined Samples of the Aerated Water and Double Soda
Water, manufactured by Mr A. Williamson, Junr., 6 West Clyde
Street, Helensburgh, and bave found tbem to be of unexceptional
purity, and of excellent quality in every respect.

William Wallace, Ph, D., f. r. s. e., f,c.s.,
Consulting and Analytical Chemist.

BUTCHER,
EOSSDHU PLAGE, (Nearly opposite tlie Post Office,)

16 EAST PRINCES STREET, HELENSBURGH.

COKNEW JSEEJP^ ROUNDS OF BEEF.

FlCI^iLEBI TONGUKS»

Executed at 6^ East Princes Street, Helensburgh,
Sucli as Cards, Intimations, Fimeral Letters, Remembrance
Cards, Calling Cards, Account Headings, Circulars, Pam-
phlets, Bills. Also Relief Stamping from Monograms, or
Crests_, on the shortest notice, and at moderate Charges.

XYll

A dvertisements.

ON THE ESTATE OF PEATON, ROSENEATH,

Beginning within lialf-an-hour's v/^alk of either Cove Steam-
boat Pier, on Loch Long, or Hahane Ferry, on the Gareloch,
and ending about ten minutes' walk from Culport Ferry,
Feus for Villas may now be obtained along the Shore and
other Arable Fields^ and the fine old Woods which, by their
additional shelter already complete them to a very great
extent, all along the Lower and Upper Shore and other
Hoads, commanding the grandest Scenery of the Firth of
Clyde, while completely Sheltered from the East and North
Winds, and with abundant supplies of the purest water,
at Annual Feu-Duties of .£10, £9, &c., per Imperial Acre,
according to the nature of each Feu, and its nearness to, or
greater distance from the Shore, The Shore Feuing grounds
alone extend nearly a mile-and-a-half along the Shore of
Loch Long, from the Ardpeaton Villas, &c., already feued,
to the extent of 1 4 Acres, to the feu of 6 Acres, and beautiful
country residence, at the other Shore extremity of the Estate
next to Coulport Ferry ; immediately above which, some
beautiful Feus of greater or less extent may be obtained at
Annual Feuing Pates, on such terms as may be agreed upon
with the Proprietor or his Agents. These Feus commanding
the direct central sea view of the Firth of Clyde, are partly
Arable and quite level, and the remainder undulating and
beautifully Wooded with several hundreds of fine old trees,
principally Fir, and Oak, with some Beech and Ash Trees, &c,
with Rocks, a Water Fall, Pools of Water, and a large and
singularly picturesque Boulderstone, separate, but very close
to the other much more extensive Shore Feuing Grounds,
and in all about 40 Acres, extending along the March Fence
of the adjoining Duke of Argyll's Roseueath estate, close to
Duchlage Farm House.

Apply to John D. Campbell, Esq., of Peaton, at Gareloch
House, Roseneath, Dumbartonshire ; or to Messrs Mac-
KEXziE, Gardner & Alexander, Writers, 153 St. Vincent
Street, Glosgow.

Advertisements. iviii

BATTRUM'

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MUSIC WAREHOUSE,

7 SINCLAIR STREET, HELENSBURGH

Pianos and otker Musical Ihstranaents from various London
Makers — J. Broadwood and Son, Collard and Collard,
Cramer, Brinsmead and Sons, IRalph. Allison, Metzler, &c.,
for Sale or Hire, and -will continue to renew them as the
demand increases. Hiring Prices from 10s to 25s per
month, according to time of Hire. In all cases the hirers
pay cost of removal, also a Fresh Stock of New and Standard
Music of various publishers.

Can be had on the Three Years system, as may be agreed,
by being payed in advance per quarter, according to the in-
strument, on the same principal as some of the larger Houses
in the Trade — Cramer and others— by Paying £2 10s, £3,
£3 10s, £4, and upwards per Quarter — the instruments be-
coming the hirer's at expiration of the three years, provided
the instalments have been duly paid as above stated. Other
instruments that have been used, will be Let or Sold as may-
be bargained for.

XIX, Advertisements.

(Successors to the late W. Battvum)

Bookbinders, Stationers, and Fancy Goods
"Vs7-.a.:r:ex-3:oxjsejm:ein3-^

50 East Princes Street, and 19 West Clyde Street,
HELENSBURGH.

Books.

A very large and carefully selected stock of Good Books
received, as they are published, all the best books of General
Literature, Science, Art, and Religion, by the best authors,
and in various styles of binding. A good variety of Moroco
and Calf Bound Books kept. Books for Christmas, New-
Year, and Birth-day Presents, in elegant binding. Family,
Pew, Reference, Pocket, and School Bibles ; Church Services
and Prayer Books ; Psalm Books, Hymn Books, for the
various Churches and Schools, Discount for Cash as Usual.

Bookbinding Expeditiously Executed.

stationery.

Plain and Fancy Stationery at all prices ; Christmas and
New-Year Stationery ; Copy and Exercise Books ; Account,
Cash, Letter, Pass, and D ay-Books, School Books suitable
for all the Schools, &c.

Fancy and Leather Goods.

An immense assortment of Fancy Goods, including the
latest novelties from London and the Continent. Leather
Goods in Great variety — such as Fitted Leather Cases,
Purses, Portfolios, and Portmanteaus, Albums in great
variety of bindings. Hair, Tooth, and Nail Brushes, Combs
and Perfumes. Glove and Handkerchief Boxes, Clocks from
£1 to £10, Papier-Machie Goods^ .iii'tificial Flowers &©,

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