The whole of Glasgow as a city, has, in point of ar chitecture, more merit than is generally met with. Stand ing on comparatively level and smooth ground, it has none of the wild irregularity of old Edinburgh, yet the 'I'ron and Argyll streets partake of the grandeur of the High-street of the capital. The style of the new streets in Glasgow, accords sufficiently with those of the more ancient parts. There being a considerable difference in the fronts of individual dwellings, and these frequently mixed with public buildings, a street architecture is found here much preferable to that of the new town of Edinburgh.
In the towns of Stirling, Linlithgow, and Dunferm line, may be seen the remains of royal palaces. They have been castellated squares, with chapels. That at Linlithgow is upon a magnificent scale, and has still a very striking effect. At Stirling, the palace built by James V. has its northern and western fronts in a very peculiar style, which deserves the attention of the young architect.
After the Roman architecture had been revived in Britain, the Scots imitated their southern neighbours in abandoning the castellated dwelling, and adopting the Palladian style. In 1698, the villa of the Earl of Hope toun was begun upon the south bank of the estuary of the Forth, from a design of Sir William Bruce, the ar chitect of Holyrood-house. The wings were afterwards added by Mr Adam. The beauty of the situation, and the magnificence of the structure, are well known to form a principal feature in a scene which, for extent, richness, and variety, admits of few equals. This taste in archi tecture was extended over the kingdom, from Fleurs, the seat of the Duke of Roxburgh near Kelso, to the su perb dwelling of the Duke of Gordon on the coast of 'Moray. In 1761, Sir James Clerk, a man of genius and fine taste, built his elegant seat at Pennycuik, in Mid Lothian. It is a regular square edifice; the basement
and order are well proportioned ; it has a bold portico of six Corinthian columns; the entablature runs round the whole building; and one ruw of large windows in the front corresponds with this fine order. In the same county, Duddingstone house is an equally correct design by Sir William Chambers ; and Melville Castle has been rendered, by the ingenuity of Mr Adam, a still more magnificent and appropriate feature in this part of Great Britain. The same architect, with his usual fertility of invention, has in Culzean house, on a bold promontory on the coast of Ayrshire, rendered the seat of the Earl of Cassilis a just resemblance of a Roman villa as de scribed by Pliny. . Of a still more recent date, are the extensive and finely castellated structures, raised in the same county, by the munificence of the Earl of Eglin toun; and the Countess of Loudon. But perhaps the most extensive and magnificent of all the modern Scot tish structures, is Gossford house, built by the Earl of \Vemyss, in East Lothian, from a design by Robert Adam; though one little inferior has been erected by the Duke of Argyle at Roseneath, (see Plate CLX XXI.) from designs by the late Mr Bonomi, an ingenious Ita lian architect, who long practised his art with much suc cess in England.
Having now, we trust, adduced a sufficient number of instances, to convey to the reader a distinct idea of the progress of architecture in Scotland, the nature of this work not admitting of more, we must, therefore, deny ourselves the pleasure of following the ingenious archi tects of the present day through many works, which re flect great credit upon their taste and skill. We have reason to look forward with confidence to the time, when