Identifier: imperialgazettscv2wils (find matches)
Title: The imperial gazetteer of Scotland; or, Dictionary of Scottish topography, compiled from the most recent authorities, and forming a complete body of Scottish geography, physical, statistical, and historical
Year: 1868 (1860s)
Authors: Wilson, John Marius
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Publisher: London A. Fullarton
Contributing Library: National Library of Scotland
Digitizing Sponsor: National Library of Scotland

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en famous fortheir number, their excellence, and their adaptations.An attempt was made in 1697 to remove to Perththe university of St. Andrews; but, though wellapproved by some of the highest authorities in thekingdom, it failed. An academy was instituted in1760, of high character, and continues to be con-ducted, in four departments, by a rector, an assist-ant, and three masters. A grammar-school, orhigh-school, was in existence before the Reforma-tion, and has in recent times worked conjointly withthe academy, in the several departments of an Eng-lish school, conducted by a rector, an assistant, anda master. There are also a school of industry fordestitute boys, instituted in 1841, and attended byabout 50 boys; two infant schools for girls and forboys, attended by upwards of 240 children; a schoolof industry for females; a ragged-school farm; anendowed free school for the children of the poor;an endowed trades-school; and one or two otheischools, aided or upheld by extraneous support
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^p ^ 1 PERTH. 585 PERTH. There are likewise, within the four Perth parishes,about 22 unendowed schools. PERTH, a post and market-town, a river port, aroyal and parliamentary burgh, an ancient city, theseat of a presbytery and a synod, the capital ofPerthshire, the assize-town for the counties of Perth,Fife, and Forfar, and formerly the metropolis ofScotland, stands in north latitude 56° 23 40, andlongitude west of Greenwich 3° 6 20. It is dis-tant by road 15 miles south-south-east of Dunkeld,17i east-north-east of Crieff, 22 west-south-west ofDundee, 39 north-north-west of Edinburgh, and 61north-east of Glasgow. But by railway it is distant21i miles from Dundee, 45 from Edinburgh, and 62£from Glasgow. Its site is an alluvial plain on theTay, about 28 miles above the influx of that riverto the sea. The main part of the town, or the city-proper, is all on the right bank of the river, all onlow flat ground within the parishes of Perth; andits chief suburb is directly opposite on the l

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