length, making our way through the ftrepitumque ac ftrata viarum,' we found ourselves under the lofty tower of the Tolbooth; and alighting at the piazza which joins it, fupported by hand fome columns, we entered the tontine hotel behind them; houfe of public accommodation, worthy of this magnificent city. Its name imports, that it was built by fubfcription, raifed on the modern fcheme of furvivorfhip and no fmall fum must have fufficed to carry this establishment to its prefent ftate; although the new stables, and fome others of its appendages, are yet incomplete, or remain to be added. Several apartments, confifting of large dining-rooms, bedchambers, &c. neatly furnished, and fit for the reception of the moft diftinguished travellers, occupy a confiderable portion of a large court; removed backward from the noife of the street. The reft of the houfe branches out in different directions; and contains an infinity of rooms and offices on the feveral ftories. But all were nearly full, or elfe previously engaged on our arrival, yesterday afternoon; and we were uncertain, for fome hours, whether beds could be found us within the precincts of the hotel. But an unexpected departure, or two, toward the evening, fortunately made room. We had time this morning to examine at leifure an important member of our hotel, which hrad, yelterday evening, excited our curiosity, as we contemplated it from our dining-room window oppofite. A grand bow, lighted by five lofty fathes, projects into the court of the hotel: all we could then perceive through them, was a fpace apparently confid rable, with a number of figures fitting, itanding, or walking about. On entering, we found a room of feventy or eighty feet in length, with correfponding dimenfions of height and breadth; having another vaft window on one of its fides, mingling its auxiliary light with thofe of the bow. This was no other than the great fubfcription coffee room; fupported by certain annual contributions of more than fix hundred of the principal citizens of Glafgow, and members of the university. Half the newspapers of London, and Gazettes from Ireland, Holland and France, and a number of provincial journals, and chronicles of Scotland and England, befide reviews, maga, zines, and other periodical publications, are objects of the fubfcription. At the daily arrival of the polt, a. more ftirring, lively, and anxious fcene can hardly be imagined. But no part of the day pafles without fome concourfe of fubfcribers, or of strangers at the hotel, whom their liberality permits freely to partake the benefit of the room. At thofe hours, when the news of the morning may be faid to have grown cold; the monthly publications claim attention in their turn; or people meet for the fake of looking up their acquaintance, or of engaging in cafual parties of converfation. As foon as breakfast was over, we haftened to the college, with a letter from one of my friends in London, to Dr. Patrick Wilfon, profeffor of aftronomy; to whofe polite attentions we were much indebted during our vifit to Glafgow; and particularly for his having made us known to the cele brated Dr. Reid, profeffor Cummins, and other literary characters of merit, attached to, or educated in that learn ed feminary. The college is a venerable building, much in the ftyle of the more ancient ones at Oxford. Its gothic ornaments, toward the ftreet, have an original and impofing effect. The college confiits of three courts, and has a large garden, in which is ntuated its obfervatory, on a rifing station. This college, which forms the univerfity, was founded about the mid dle of the fifteenth century, under the aufpices of James II, but was built and endowed by Turnbull, bishop of Glafgow. Few of the young ftudents refide within the walls, but come every day during the feflions, from their lodgings in the city, to attend the lectures of the profeffors; for whofe accommodation the private apartments are chiefly delined; as the public are for their lecture rooms, their library, the council chamber, and repofitory of their philofophical apparatus, and natural hiftory. I have feen no repofitory of this kind in any univerfity, either at home or abroad, more abundantly furnished with mathematical, mechanical, and optical inftruments, and every fort of machinery, or model, requifite for the illuftration of fcience; nor any fo agreeably and conveniently arranged, as this in the college of Glasgow. It is, indeed, a fplendid collection; and few, perhaps, have been rendered more fuccefsfully fubfervient to the purposes, for which they were defigned. Several of the profeffors hold distinguished rank in the republic of letters; and, by their enlightened views of fcience, and ready addrefs in applying it to the bufinefs of life, to its civil, commercial, and economical affairs, they have long had the reputation of contributing, not lefs to the general interefls of fociety, than to thofe of the literary world in particular. The celebrated Maclaurin, who received his education in this feminary, was one inftance, among others, of this happy faculty of adapting the profound theories of fcience to the fervice of common life. This he did in conftructing, and perfecting various machines for the working of mines, or the improvement of manufactures; for the conveyance of water, and the execution of other public works. Nor Ihould we forget his calculations, to eftablish annuities, in Scotland, for the benefit of widows, on the annual payment of certain fums, by the polfeffors of ecclefiaftical benefices, profefforfhips and other life-incomes. Profeffor Willon had the goodness to fhew us, among many other academical objects, the obfervatory, which is immediately within his own department. All the more useful, or at Jeaft, neceffary inftruments, as fex tants, mural quadrants, tranfit-glaffes, &c. you will imagine cannot be wanting here; but that which he wished more particularly to give us inspection of, was a noble telescope of Dr. Herfchel's conftruction, of ten feet in length, and of as many inches in diameter. He obligingly explained fome of its principal points of fuperiority above those invented by former aftronomers, fufficiently to imprefs a very high idea of its merit. As a plate of the telefcope, and alfo many technical terms, would be neceffary to convey his obfervations, I must not attempt to be more particular.-The ftand, on which it was placed, invented likewife by Dr. Herschel, difplayed much ingenuity; being fo contrived as to move, or to fix the inftrument, in any direction required,. by the eafieft and fimpleft means. Dr. Herfchel, as I understood the profeffor, conftructs his telescopes of thefe particular dimenfions, including the external machinery, for two hundred pounds. That, which he has been fome years making for his majefty, is to be forty feet in length, and will be calculated to collect a much greater quantity of light than any former inftrument of the kind; and this, indeed, is fuppofed to be one of the chief objects and advantages propofed in its extraordinary dimenfions. Mr. profeffor Cummins favoured us with a fight of the monumental ftones taken chiefly from the famous wall, extending, according to Camden, from the Forth to Dumbarton; which formed the limit of the Roman conquests in Britain, in the reign of Antoninus Pius. They were found, a great part of them, not many years ago, by the workmen employed in the grand junction of the Forth and the Clyde. They are carefully preferved in cafes, in a place fet apart for them within the precincts of the college. As a fmall book of engravings has been made from them, in which the figure of each is reprefented with its infcription, you will difpenfe with a minuter account. It is enough for me to have pointed pointed out by what means curiofity may be gratified, refpecting thefe curious and valuable reliques of antiquity. Now I am speaking of works of art, I cannot help mentioning a medallion of Dr. Reid, which was Thewn us by Dr. Wilfon, immediately after he had introduced us to that eminent metaphyfician. It is well executed in the ftyle of the Roman profiles upon ancient medals, and will hereafter be fondly regarded by his many friends and difciples as a memorial of the venerable profeffor, when that and his works alone shall remain to tell, how he looked, or what he thought. The celebrated original has now feen upward of fourfcore years, and ftill retains a refpectable command of all his faculties; his fenfe of hearing excepted. His metaphyfical character and opinions are well known from his works; particularly his difagreement with Locke, on the fubject of innate ideas, and his fubititution of certain inftinctive principles or faculties, through which he would derive them, in order the better to combat the fcepticism of Hume, and the ideal fyftem of Berkeley. That he was formerly profeffor of mathematics in one of the Scottish univerfities, and a moft diftinguished adept in that science is lefs known of him in England. That his character as a man is very amiable, I infer from never hearing him spoken of, but with affection and etleem. From the college we went to vifit the cathedral, faid to be the only gothic church remaining entire in North Britain. It is a building of great magnitude, fituate on an elevated fcite to the north of the old town. Its length frikes the eye more than its other dimenfions. It has a fine fpire, which, having been rent by lightning, is in fome parts held together by cramps of copper. The bold and lofty arches of the interior edifice, formed by the concurrent ramifications of oppofite columns, would exhibit a perspective of the most magnificent effect, were it not almoft deftroyed by a partition, which divides the old church into two. The feats and galleries in each help alfo to conceal, or deform the original defign. To carry this parfimony of space, as far as it would go, and that, whatever facrifices be offered in this temple, there may be none to the pride of the eye, its ancient vaults have been converted into a third church; the windows of which, being neceffarily near the ground, admit, according to the poet's expreffion, with doubtless propriety applicable here, Naught fave a dim religious light.' The crowd of pews below, and galleries hanging from the fepulchral arches above, confiderably aid the native gloom of the place. Into this lower region it is, that the young clergy of Glafgow often modeftly defcend to make, not the firft difplay, but the first trial of their talents. The young divine needs certainly be under no apprehenfion of facing a congregation, whom he cannot fee, and who cannot fee him. In a place peculiarly deftined for the communication of light one can hardly wonder at the obfervation of a wag, who faid, It was rather odd, to find both parties here fo much in the dark.' How far it may be needful fo tenderly to confult the diffidence of novices, where the clergy, though well trained for the functions of the miniftry, are expected to preach without notes, they are beft able to judge, who have adopted this arrangement; but I confefs, that in defcending into this fubterraneous church, fo peculiarly calculated to give effect to a funeral harangue, I could not but imagine, till otherwife informed, that it was probably destined folely to this mournful ufe. My refpectable friends at Glafgow, or any other of its worthy citizens, who may happen to read this letter, will candidly account for the impreffion made upon a ftranger, by the prefent economical humiliation of this once magnificent edifice confecrated to the worship of God, when they they recollect the admiration univerfally excited in travellers by the beautiful and expenfive architecture of their new city in fubfervience to the purpofes of men. The citizens of Glasgow ftill continue to bury their dead in the cometeries, which furround their churches; an inconvenient and pernicious cuftom in populous places, and which one could hardly have expected still to prevail, in a town of fuch well regulated police, as Glafgow. her great grandmother. The old gentlewoman, in the prefent comparifon, feems worn and fhrivelled with age, and probably occupies lefs fpace than in the days of her youth; while the blooming beauty of this laft generation, with her hoop, her train, her airs, and ornaments à la mode, like a birth-day figure at court, is swollen out to the most important dimenfions, and would as we fay, make three of her aged relative on the hill. We faw workmen very busy in pull- The commencement of the new ing down a grand ruin near the ca- town is to be dated foon after the thedral; the remains of the epifcopal union of the two kingdoms. It has palace. But this will occafion you no kept gradually defcending from the furprife; as every body knows how old one to the river; the fource of its little partiality the inhabitants of being, its commerce and its profpeNorth Britain entertain for the epif- rity. Having at length reached the copal order, and all its appendages. Clyde, it has continued fpreading The demolition of this ancient build- eastward along its banks to a breadth ing, happens, however, to have ori- of three quarters of a mile on the ginated in the prefent cafe, not in right; and now taking in the village any bigotted prejudice against objects of Anderton, extends upward of two of this nature; but folely in the in- miles in length from its ancient weftention of the magiftrates to render the tern boundary, where we first entered materials ferviceable in the erection it. Every part of this large space is of their new hofpital; the plan of not equally covered with houfes at which is very comprehenfive, and prefent; but probably will be in a meant to unite all the conveniencies few years. For the rage of building, in point of conftruction, and advan- which perhaps out-runs the increase of tages, with regard to the accommo- inhabitants, now computed at 60,000, dation and treatment of patients, is greater if poffible than in London. which the most approved hofpitals Inftant ardentes Tyrii; pars ducere muhitherto founded, have been known to poffefs. The old town lies on the declivity of a hill, chiefly beneath the cathedral. Its uncouth and antique appearance give the fame advantage of contraft to the new one, which a beautiful young woman receives from flanding next ros, -et manibus fubvolvere faxa, Pars optare locum tectoFundamenta locant alii, immanefq; columnas Rupibus excidunt. VIRG. I. 423. [To be concluded in our next.] An Interesting Account of the Behaviour of two ESQUIMAUX INDIANS, who were brought to London, in the Year 1772. HE following Account is taken work contains many interesting par tions and Events, during a Refidence of nearly fixteen Years on the Coaft of Labrador, by George Cartwright, Efq. in three volumes 4to.' This inhabitants, not hitherto known; and the following account gives a very natural, and, at the fame time, very curious account of the ideas of a fa wholly taken up in gratifying the curiofity of my friends and their acquaintance; and the numbers who came made my lodgings very inconvenient to the landlord as well as to myfelf. I therefore refolved to look out for a house. I foon hired a small one, ready furnished, for ten guineas a month, in Little Caftle-ftreet, Oxford-market, and removed thither. Being willing, as far as lay in my power, to comply with the inceffant applications of my friends for a fight of the Indians; and finding it impoffible either to have any reft, or time to tranfact bufinefs, I appropriated two days a week to that purpofe, viz. Tuesdays and Fridays. On thofe days, not only my house was filled, even to an inconvenience, but the ftreet was fo much crowded with carriages and people, that my refidence was a great nuifance to the neighbourhood. Monday 14.-I went down the river this morning, met the veffel in the Pool, and brought the women on thore. They were greatly aftonished at the number of shipping which they faw in the river; for they did not fuppofe that there were fo many in the whole world: but I was exceedingly disappointed to obferve them pafs through London-bridge without taking much notice of it. I foon difcovered that they took it for a natural As their fkin dreffes had a dirty rock which extended across the river.' appearance and an offenfive fmell, I They laughed at me when I told them provided a quantity of broad-cloth, it was the work of men; nor could flannel, and beads, together with I make them believe it, till we came to Blackfriars-bridge, which I caufed them to examine with more attention; fhewing them the joints, and pointing out the marks of the chifels upon the ftones. They no fooner comprehended by what means fuch a structure could be erected, than they exprefied their wonder with aftonishing fignificancy of countenance. whatever elfe was neceffary; and the women now having leifure to work, and being excellent taylors, foon clothed them all anew; preferving their own fashion in the cut of their garments. I once took the men to the opera when their majeflies were there, and we chanced to fit near Mr. Colman, the manager of Covent-garden theatre, On landing at Westminster-bridge, who politely invited all the Indians we were immediately furrounded by and myfelf to a play at his house. a great concourfe of people; attract- He fixed on Cymbeline, and they ed not only by the uncommon appear- were greatly delighted with the reance of the Indians who were in their prefentation. But their pride was feal-fkin dreffes, but alfo by a beauti- inoft highly gratified, at being reful eagle, and an Equimau dog; ceived with a thundering applaute by which had much the refemblance of a the audience, on entering the box. wolf, and a remarkable wildness of The men foon obferved to their wives, look. I put them all into coaches, that they were placed in the king's with as much expedition as poffible, box, and received in the fame manand drove off to the lodgings which I ner as their majefties were at the had prepared in Leicester-street. opera which added confiderably to the pleasure which they felt from the tout enfemble. Never did I obferve fo young a child pay fuch unremitting In a few days time, I had fo many applications for admittance to fee the new vifitors, that my time was attention |