The New Statistical Account of Scotland: Renfrew, ArgyleW. Blackwood and Sons, 1845 |
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Abbey parish abundant acres amount ancient annual annum appears Ardnamurchan Argyle average number Ayrshire banks barony built burgh Castle Cathcart chalders chapel chiefly Clyde coal coast considerable contains district Eaglesham east employed erected Erskine extent farm feet females fish former formerly Frith Gaelic Glasgow Gourock Greenock ground heritors Highland hills Hurlet improvement Inchinnan inhabitants Inishail Innerkip island James John Kilbarchan Kilmalcolm land late Loch Loch Sunart Lochalin Lochwinnoch Lord manse manufacture Mearns miles minister Morvern moss nearly neighbourhood Neilston old red sandstone Paisley parish parish church parochial pasture period persons pluviometer poor population porphyry Port-Glasgow presbytery present proprietors Renfrew Renfrewshire rent residence rish river river Clyde Robert rock sandstone Scotland Sempill shore side Society soil Statistical Account Stewart stone tion town trade upwards village whole William
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Page 416 - Mr. Watt was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, in 1784, of the Royal Society of London in 1785, and a corresponding member of the Batavian Society in 1787.
Page 415 - It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal like wax, before it, — draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin, and forge anchors, — cut steel into ribands, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 415 - The trunk of an elephant, that can pick up a pin or rend an oak, is as nothing to it. It can engrave a seal, and crush masses of obdurate metal before it; draw out, without breaking, a thread as fine as gossamer, and lift a ship of war like a bauble in the air. It can embroider muslin and forge anchors, cut steel into ribbons, and impel loaded vessels against the fury of the winds and waves.
Page 417 - All men of learning and science were his cordial friends; and such was the influence of his mild character and perfect fairness and liberality, even upon the pretenders to these accomplishments, that he lived to disarm even envy itself, and died, we verily believe, without a single enemy.
Page 417 - ... a finer expression of reposing strength, and mild self-possession in his manner, than we ever recollect to have met with in any other person. He had in his character the utmost abhorrence for all sorts of forwardness, parade, and pretensions ; and indeed never failed to put all such impostors out of countenance, by the manly plainness and honest intrepidity of his language and deportment.
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Page 319 - Bays the learned historian of lona, " as far as we may judge from that of Columba, was at least comparatively pure. As he was himself much given to the study of the Holy Scriptures...