bourhood, and coal was also expensive, as it required to be brought from the coalfields of Lanarkshire, by lighters. A butter or green market, and a flesh market, were established in Market Street, and a fish market at the Mid Quay, the last of which is made familiar to us in several well-known pictures of the time.

Time would fail us to enumerate the trades that sprang up-the bottle work in the East-end, whose cone was long a familiar object in the landscape; tanworks and a sugarhouse on the Cartsburn; and on the West Burn, a duck or sailcloth factory, a waulk or flash mill, glove and shoe factory, dye works, glue works, soap works, cooperages, sugarhouses, a distillery, a brewery, and others. By the impounding on the hills above the town, in connection with the Shaws' Water system, of a large quantity of water which formerly swelled the burns, these industries

lost a great deal of their old activity, and now the factories on the West Burn are 'a' wede awa', with the exception of the sugarhouse of Messrs. John Walker & Company.

In the old titles of Greenock we often find the word "Carman," which indicates one of that large body of men who drove long, low drays, carrying about fifteen hundredweight, laden with sugar, tobacco, or other produce, and which stood in rows along the quays waiting employment. Many of these men amassed considerable wealth, and built or acquired properties, while others, as we know from contemporary writers, wasted their substance in riotous living, neglecting their families and starving their horses. latter class must have been the notorious Archie Geachie, who was currently reported to have been in the habit of putting a pair of green spectacles on his horse, and feeding it

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with shavings, in order to delude the wretched animal into the belief that it was eating grass! Some of our townsfolk still living may remember another of the fraternity, Tawtie Willie, with his burly body and sonsy face, his Kilmarnock bonnet with large red tapitourie, and his whip with long lash attached, to reach the boys engaged in that occupation known to all young Greenock of that period as "scobing sugar." Trade societies, such as wrights, coopers, carpenters, weavers, tailors, and shoemakers, were the order of the day, who, with their banners and trade emblems, graced many a civic procession and demonstration, finishing up, usually, with a grand carouse at night. As shewing the drouthy habits of the day, we notice that in nearly all the accounts rendered to the Corporation or the Mansionhouse for work done, there is one item characteristically conspicuous, viz., the item charged as "drink money," sometimes