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... inhabitants , than in the neighbouring town . This may arise part- ly from the equable temperature which is maintained in the rooms of the manufactory , and partly from the low and sheltered situa- tion of the place , exposing the ...
... inhabitants , than in the neighbouring town . This may arise part- ly from the equable temperature which is maintained in the rooms of the manufactory , and partly from the low and sheltered situa- tion of the place , exposing the ...
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... inhabitants of the town attended Divine service in the chapel of St Nicholas , which de- volved to the burgh at the Reformation , and in which the lofts and galleries were set apart for the magistrates and corporations . It seems ...
... inhabitants of the town attended Divine service in the chapel of St Nicholas , which de- volved to the burgh at the Reformation , and in which the lofts and galleries were set apart for the magistrates and corporations . It seems ...
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... inhabitants borrowed the Lee- penny , giving a large sum in trust for the loan , and so convinced were they of its good effects , that they were willing to forfeit the deposit and retain possession . * Various , of course , are the ...
... inhabitants borrowed the Lee- penny , giving a large sum in trust for the loan , and so convinced were they of its good effects , that they were willing to forfeit the deposit and retain possession . * Various , of course , are the ...
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... inhabitants bore arms at Bothwell Bridge . The co- lours and the drum then used are still preserved in the parish . It was in Lesmahago that the unfortunate Mr Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart was apprehended by a carpenter named Meikle ...
... inhabitants bore arms at Bothwell Bridge . The co- lours and the drum then used are still preserved in the parish . It was in Lesmahago that the unfortunate Mr Macdonald of Kinlochmoidart was apprehended by a carpenter named Meikle ...
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... inhabitants ; at present their number is as one to less than every 250 souls in Lesmahago . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . This parish has undergone a great change since the last Sta- tistical Account was published ; the population has ...
... inhabitants ; at present their number is as one to less than every 250 souls in Lesmahago . MISCELLANEOUS OBSERVATIONS . This parish has undergone a great change since the last Sta- tistical Account was published ; the population has ...
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acres amount annum appears attended average number Baillie banks barony belonging Biggar Bishop of Glasgow Blantyre bolls Bothwell bridge built burgh Cadder Calder Cambuslang Cambusnethan Carluke Carnwath Castle chalders chapel chiefly church Clyde coal considerable crops Dalserf district Douglas Dunsyre Earl east Edinburgh Elsrickle erected extent farm fathoms feet females former freestone Glasgow glebe Gorbals Govan ground Hamilton heritors hill improvement inches inhabitants ironstone James John Kilbride Kilbucho kirk labour Lammingtoune Lanark land Larkhall late lime limestone Lockhart Lord manse manufacture merks miles Millheugh minister Monkland nearly parish parochial pasture persons planted poor population presbytery present proprietors rent rish river river Clyde road Robert Rutherglen sandstone Scotland Scots seams Shotts side Society soil stipend stone Strathaven teinds tion town trees upwards village whole William wrought
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Page 202 - A Description and Draught of a new-invented Machine, for carrying Vessels or Ships out of, or into, any Harbour, Port, or River, against Wind and Tide, or in a calm.
Page 383 - For I was ashamed to require of the king a band of soldiers and horsemen to help us against the enemy in the way: because we had spoken unto the king, saying, The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek him; but his power and his wrath is against all them that forsake him.
Page 310 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 782 - Where Bothwell's bridge connects the margin steep, And Clyde, below, runs silent, strong, and deep, The hardy peasant, by oppression driven To battle, deemed his cause the cause of heaven ; Unskilled in arms, with useless courage stood, While gentle Monmouth grieved to shed his blood : But fierce Dundee, inflamed with deadly hate.
Page 383 - God, to seek of him a right way for us, and for our little ones, and for all our substance.
Page 161 - I perceived that he imagined the presence of sulphur in the air to be the cause of blast-furnaces working irregularly, and making bad iron in the summer months. Subsequently to this conversation, which had in some measure directed my thoughts to the subject of blastfurnaces...
Page 403 - The city was three-quarters of a mile in length, and about a quarter of a mile in width.
Page 152 - ... to apply it with exactness), and struck with an iron mallet. Thus the figure was impressed upon the cloth, one colour only being used at once ; and if other colours were required to complete the pattern, it was necessary to repeat the operation with different blocks. In order to produce more delicate patterns than could be engraved on wood...
Page 153 - ... biting nature, and served merely to open pores in the fibres of the cloth, into which the colouring matter might insinuate itself. And after the inaccuracy of this notion was discovered, and the real use of mordants ascertained, the term was still continued as sufficiently appropriate, or rather as a proper name, without any allusion to its original signification. The term mordant, however, is not limited to those substances merely which serve like alumina to fix the colours. It is applied also...
Page 143 - ... those machines, extend the rove, and reduce it to a thread of the required fineness. The twist is given to this thread by flyers, driven by bands, which receive their motion from a horizontal fly wheel, or from a longitudinal cylinder. The yarn produced by this mode of spinning is called water twist, from the circumstance of the machinery, from which it is obtained, having been, at first, generally put into motion by water. In 1775, the mule-jenny or mule was invented by Samuel Crompton, of Bolton....