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Each in his narrow cell for ever laid, The rude forefathers of the hamlet sleep. Gray. TN beginning to jot down the following notes on the origin, rise, and progress of Maryhill, with some stories and anecdotes of its public works and workmen, also sketches of a few of its more prominent inhabitants, institutions, societies, c., in bygone days, I expected they would not exceed what could be read in a couple of hours or so. As I proceeded, the field opened up, and I soon found that they would extend to a much greater length than I had contemplated; for, while thinking over some of the incidents I was writing about, others, long forgotten, came crowding on my memory, and of course had also to be incorporated among the rest. I have throughout attempted, as far as possible, to avoid the difficulty of making any particular selection that might be interesting, amusing, or instructive to the general reader, and have preferred to write these reminiscences and folklore free off hand as if crackin wi a worthy crony. I am afraid my production cannot justly be dignified by the name of a History or Lectures as some of my friends have been disposed to call them. I therefore rather name them as Random Notes and Rambling Recollections of Drydock, The Dock, or Kelvindock, all now known by the more modern name of Maryhill, from 1750 till 1894. By all these names has the older-built portion of the Burgh been successively called for more than one hundred years. That gigantic undertaking, the Forth and Clyde Canal, was surveyed and planned in 1763 by the great civil engineer, John Smeaton, designer of the famous Eddystone Lighthouse.
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