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 4 The Cathedral stands at the upper or north end of the High Street upon the summit of a ridge which declines to the Moiendinar or Gallowgate Burn. Its form like most other of the kind erected during the reign of superstition in this country, is that of a Cross whose greatest length lies East and West, and consequently the transverse parts North and South. From the middle of the building springs the great Tower, which for at least 80 feet above the roof, is of a square form, and terminals in a battlement and ballustrade. Within this rises an octangular Squire to a great height, that is again orna- mented by two smaller ballustrades at equal distances from each other and the top of the Squire. The Octagon betwixt these is beauti- fied with several Gothic windows and four small pyramidal Spires which rise from within the first battlement at the bottom of the Octagon. Upon the West end of the Cathed ral rises another square Tower, till it is upon a level with the battlement of the great Steeple here it terminates in a pyramida leaden roof, adorned with a fane. In this Steeple is placed the Clock and a very large Bell no less than 12 feet 1 inch in circumference which acts as the corfew to the inhabitants at the hour of ten each night; and from its grave and deeply sonorous note, is excellantly adapted to the purpose. In the Winter of 1789, this Beil having been accidently cracken by some persons who had got admission to the Steeple it was