Excerpt from Days at the Coast: A Series of Sketches, Descriptive of the Frith of Clyde, Its Watering-Places, Its Scenery, and Its Associations Glasgow claims as her son the genial and gifted author of the twin volumes. Rambles round glasgow, and days AT the coast. He was ushered into this mortal scene at Rumford Street, Bridgeton, on the 4th of April, 1817 - scarcely two years after the military achievements of Wellington at Waterloo had shed new lustre and undying glory around British arms. Bridgeton is a district in the East-end of the City. At that time it was somewhat of a rural suburb, and enjoyed an independent municipal existence, not having as yet been caught in the annexing net of the Second City of the Empire. But the lapse of six decades has produced a wondrous transformation scene on this locality, as on other districts of Glasgow. It is now one of the most thickly populated of the City's environs. Acres that in our boy hood were green pastures and waving corn-fields, are now the abode of teeming thousands.

Not only so: it is also a busy hive of industry, and the seat of every description of manufacture - the clank of the shuttle, the stroke of the hammer, and the snort of the iron-horse, being ceaseless and familiar sounds; whilst columns of sooty smoke are almost indigenous to the landscape. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.