Lives of Boulton and Watt. Principally from the original Soho mss. Comprising also a history of the invention and introduction of the steam engine (1865)
Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 · Philadelphia, J. B. Lippincott and company; · leaf 127
the guilds. In the heart of old Glasgow city, not far from thecathedral of St. Mungo, which Knox with difSculty pre-served from the fury of the Scotch iconoclasts, standsthe venerable University, a curiously black and sombrebuilding, more than 400 years old. Inside the entrance,on the right-hand… … .iU/vUKANGLK, OL.^.^U.w Cul.l.ti Chap. VI. HIS SHOP IN GLASGOW COLLEGE. 107 parts, in a state of independent crookedness and irregu-larity. There are turrets in tlie corners of tlie quad-rangles,—turrets witli peaked tops, like witches caps.In the inner quadrangle, entered from the left-hand sideof…