DUNDEE' (Gael. Du ntair. fort on the Tay). A royal. Parliamentary, and municipal burgh and seaport. in Forfarshire, Scotland. on the left bank of the estuary of the Tay, 10 miles from the entrance of that river into the sea. 50 miles north-northeast of Edinburgh (Map: Scot land, F 3), The greater part of it is situated on a slope. A handsome esplanade skirts the banks of the river. The new streets are wide and well laid out. The most striking architec tural features are: the town hall. in the Roman Ionic style, with a spire 140 feet high: the Albert Institute. including a free library, pic ture galleries, museum, etc.. in tifteenth-eentury Gothic; the royal exchange, in the Flemish Pointed style of the fifteenth century: the corn exchange. the infirmary, the justiviary and sherifT-eourt buildings, the post-office, the town church, with the old tower. 156 feet high, re stored in 1873; Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, with a tower and spire 217 feet high : a new orphan asylum: University College, founded in 1SS2 and ntliliat«1 with Saint Andrew's Uni versity: Kinnaird Hall, and a technical insti tute. Dundee sends two members to Parliament. Lr ISS9 it was raised to the rank of a city. It owns its water, gas, and electric supplies, which net it a substantial profit ; maintains eemeteries, markets, slaughter-houses, and public baths. The street railway lines are owned and operated by the municipality. Dundee has several public parks, one of which, the Baxter Park, on a beau tiful slope to the eastward of the town, is 37 acres in extent : another. to the westward of the town, occupies the hill of Balgay, and is finely wooded and beautifully laid out, its area being about 36 acres.
Dundee is the chief seat in Great Britain of the manufacture of coarse linen fabrics (osna burgs, sheefings, ducks, dowlas, drills, canvas. and cordage). Alanufactures of jute are exten sively carried on, and many varieties of fabric are made from the coarsest nail-bagging to car pets of great beauty. Dundee is also famous for
its manufactures of confectionery and marma lade, and is the centre of the whale and seal fishing trade of 0reat Britain. Ship-building (both wood and iron) and machine-making are carried on to some extent. Dundee has splendid harbor. in addition to the tide harbor, several large wet docks, two graving-docks, and a jetty for vessels drawing more than 24 feet of water. In P.(91. 123; vessel, (of which 946 belonged to coast lines) carrying 585.000 tons, entered the port; in 1a00 the number of vessels was 1603 with 545.000 tons. The number of vessels belong ing to the port fell of from 17S with a ton nage of 124,000 in 1591. to 141 and 104,000 tons in The exports are spirits, maehin cry, and mill-work. linen yarn, jute yarn, and manufactures. The imports include wheat, flour, flax, jute. timber, sugar. paper-making materials, oil-seed cake, mineral ores. etc. The total value of imports and exports exceeds annually 14.800, 000 (4i:24.000.000f. Dundee is the third port in importance in Scotland. It is the seat of a United States consulate. At the entrance of the Firth. one of the largest iron bridges ever con structed has been built across the Tay. It was opened in 1887. and is more than two miles long. Population of royal and municipal burgh in 1901. 160.ST I. Dundee was made a royal burgh by William the Lion about 1160. Its strong fortifi cations made it of the highest military impor tance. and in the wars between the Scotch and the English it was taken repeatedly by both parties. It was burned by the Duke of Lancaster in 1355, and was pillaged by Montrose in 1645. In 1651 General "Alunk sacked and burned the town. and massacred one thousand of its inhabitants. From the important part it played in the Reformation. Dundee gained the name of the 'Scottish Geneva.' Consult: Thomson, History of Dundee (Dundee, 1571) : Peterson. Saint Andrews and Dundee (Dundee, 1593).