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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Falkirk | Falkirk | Thomas Keir Esq. Provost. J.P. [Justice of the Peace] Thomas Stark Esq. Bailie J.P. [Justice of the Peace] Mr. Alexander Black Town Surveyor |
Falkirk, a parliamentary burgh, the Capital of the Eastern part of Stirlingshire, and a town of considerable importance, is situated in 55° 49' North latitude, and 3° 44' longtitude West from Greenwich, 11 Miles East of Stirling, 24 East by North of Glasgow and 24 West of Edinburgh. It stands as to its main body on a gently rising ground, dotted round in its environs with neat and beautiful villas, and sending off in different directions two elongated and thin suburbs; seen from the soft eminences to the North and North West, it presents with its fine spire and its thick grouping of buildings, a beautiful foreground to the brilliant and fascinating landscape over which it presides, but when entered, the town is far from being in general of a pleasing aspect. An utter want of uniformity or neatness or tastefulness in its buildings; the absence of all spaciousness and plan in the arrangement of its streets, and a deficiency in the indications of enterprise and refinement in the number or architecture of its public edifices, depreciate it as a town, far below the importance which belongs to it as a market, and as the seat of a great population. Its High Street or Main Street is over most of its length or half a mile from east to west; wide and airy; and has in its wide parts large houses and good shops, and [continued on page 2] |
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