the largest city in Scotland and the second largest in Great Britain. is situated mainly in the County of Lanark, on both banks of the Clyde River. The southern portion is built on low-lying, level ground, the northern portion on a series of elevations of varying heights. The streets are in general wide and straight, and the houses are built almost wholly of freestone. As a whole, Glasgow is now excelled by few cities in the United Kingdom in architectural beauty and attractiveness of appearance. Of the older buildings the cathedral, situated in the northeast of the city, is the most noteworthy. It is supposed to have been begun about 1240 and is a large Gothic edifice, with tower and spire rising from the center, and is especially noted for its beautiful crypt. The new university buildings, in the west end of the city, cover about 4 acres of ground on a splendid site, and their value is over $2,000,000. Connected with the university is the Hunterian Museum of Anatomy and Natural History. The municipal buildings, in the center of the city, in George Square, form an imposing structure in the Renaissance style. Other noteworthy buildings are the Free Church College, the Royal Exchange, the Stock Exchange, the postoffice, the Saint Enoch Station and Central Station hotels, several clubhouses, banks and insurance offices. Most of the public monuments are collected in George Square, the finest square in the city. Glasgow has several public parks, the largest, the Green, containing 140 acres. The principal libraries are the University Library and the Mitchell Free Library. Among educational institutions, after the university, are Anderson's College Medical School, Saint Mungo's College, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Technical College and Saint Margaret's College for women. The industries embrace cotton, linen, silk, woolen and jute, in all the processes of manufacture and printing; the making of steel, and machinery and metal goods of all descriptions; shipbuilding, over 400,000 tons of shipping having been launched in some single years on the Clyde; extensive chemical works, potteries, glass works, brick works, breweries, distilleries, tanneries, tobacco works and sugar refineries. The commerce is more than commensurate with the manufactures, the total number of vessels entering and leaving the harbor in 1900 being 11,000, with a tonnage of 7,000,000. Glasgow has taken an especially advanced position upon the subject of municipal activities and owns and operates an exceptionally complete and perfect sewage disposal plant, lodging houses, tenements, public baths and wash rooms, lighting plants, waterworks, street cars, markets and slaughterhouses and ferries. The city is successful in all these lines and gains a net profit on the investments. The city was founded about 560 and was erected into a royal burgh in 1180. Glasgow is represented in Parliament by seven members. Local government is in the hands of a lord provost, ten bailies and a council of 48 members. Population in 1901, 760,423; estimated in 1905, 809,986.