"I CAN TAKE GOD TO WITNESS," HE DECLARED, "THAT I NEVER PREACHED CONTEMPT OF ANY MAN AND WISE MEN WILL CONSIDER THAT A TRUE FRIEND CANNOT FLATTER; ESPECIALLY IN A CASE THAT INVOLVES THE SALVATION OF THE BODIES AND SOULS, NOT OF A FEW PERSONS, BUT OF A WHOLE REALM." WHEN LAID IN THE GRAVE THE REGENT SAID, "THERE LIETH HE WHO NEVER FEARED THE FACE OF MAN, WHO WAS OFTEN THREATENED WITH THE DAG AND DAGGER, YET HATH ENDED HIS DAYS IN PEACE AND HONOR." On the east side we have the following:-- AMONG THE EARLY AND DISTINGUISHED FRIENDS OF THE REFORMATION, SHOULD BE ESPECIALLY REMEMBERED SIR JAMES SANDILANDS, OF CALDER, ALEXANDER EARL OF GLENCAIRN, ARCHIBALD, EARL OF ARGYLL, AND LORD JAMES STEWART, AFTERWARDS KNOWN BY THE NAME OF "THE GOOD REGENT:" JOHN ERSKINE OF DUN, AND JOHN ROW, WHO WERE DISTINGUISHED AMONG THE REFORMED MINISTERS FOR THEIR CULTIVATION OF ANCIENT AND MODERN LITERATURE. CHRISTOPHER GOODMAN AND JOHN WILLOCK, WHO CAME FROM ENGLAND TO PREACH THE GOSPEL IN SCOTLAND; JOHN WINRAM, JOHN SPOTTISWOOD, AND JOHN DOUGLASS, WHO WITH JOHN ROW AND JOHN KNOX COMPILED THE FIRST CONFESSION OF FAITH WHICH WAS PRESENTED TO THE PARLIAMENT OF SCOTLAND, AND ALSO THE FIRST BOOK OF DISCIPLINE. The monument is composed of a plinth, some six feet square, upon which is another of less dimensions, with the sides somewhat inclined inward, bearing the inscriptions; then, two low plinths smaller yet; and resting on these is a Grecian Doric column some two feet or more in diameter; and on the abacus, or cap, at its corners, are ornaments above it. Next there is a low pedestal, or corniced plinth, and the whole is surmounted by a life-size statue of John Knox. The whole may be about thirty-five feet high. The city, though largely given to traffic, has extensive manufactures. Among these are the St. Rollox chemical works, the largest in the world, covering sixteen acres, and employing a thousand men. The chimney is 450 feet high, 220 feet higher than the large one at East Cambridge, Mass.; or, to make it more definite, it is exactly the height of the East Cambridge chimney with Bunker Hill Monument on top of it, for they are respectively 230 and 220 feet high. There is one in Glasgow ten feet higher than this,--that belonging to the artificial manure works, which measures 460 feet.