Malcolm, James Peller: First Impressions Or Sketches from Art and Nature, Animate and Inanimate (London, 1807)

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situation of bristol.

search in the adjacent Jireet, and he may be more
successful. Wonderful ! that the citizens of
Bristol should expend ^=.50,000. on an Exchange
erected by Wood of Bath, and yet prefer the
rough Hones of the street to the smooth ones of
their piazzas, and the casual torrents of a British
climate to the arches which would protect; them
from repeated wettings.
However, some method and contrivance is
discoverable in arranging the above-mentioned
necesTary buildings; and it would be unfair, in
censuring, not to praise the forestght which
induced the community to add the Post-office
to the West wing of the Exchange, from which
a narrow passage only divides it.
Merchants-hall, at the North end of Prince's-
street," deserves notice as a neat edifice, and as it
contains a portrait of the celebrated Edward
Colston.
st. Michael's and brandon hills.
The ground rises rapidly from Canons' marsh
on the Avon, and the Quay on the West side of
the Froom, and is termed St. Michael's hill. The
East side of this hill is entirely covered with
buildings, which spread quite to the summit, but
terminate there for the present.
South-