FROM the subject of cottages, the transition to that of towns and villages is easy and natural; but we shall enter no farther into it, than to supply a few materials for thinking to head-gardeners, and young men who aspire to (what in these transition times, every young gardener, ought to aim at) the general management of a demesne, or of a landed estate. The towns and villages in the west of Scotland have pa-taken of the general improvement of the country, and more particularly the seaports, and the manufacturing districts of Kilmarnock, Paisley, and Catrine. The most stupendous public work which we have witnessed, in any of the places alluded to, is what is called Shaw's Waterworks, the contrivance of that most inventive engineer, Mr. Thom of Rothsay.
