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" the noise is equal to a loud peal of thunder, if you Strike a Single note of Music, you hear the Same gradually ascending With a Countless number of repetitions, until it dies away as if in an immense distance, and all the While diffusing itself through the circumambient Air If a good voice Sings, or a Musical instrument is well Played upon, the effect is inexpressibly fascinating, and almost of a Celestial Character The deepest as well as the Sharpest tones are distinctly reviberated, and at regular intervals of time, When a musical instrument is Sounded, it has the effect of a number of instruments, of a like Size and Kind, Playing in Concert," * * * * The Northern door of the Church, is through What has been a Small Side Chapel, Attached to the north Aisle of the nave, and is in the Same Style of Architecture as the West entrance * * * * The interior of the Church is highly deserving the notice of the Stranger, being now Perhaps the [best ] Ancient Parish Church in Scotland, it is Supported by two rows of large Gothic Pillars, five in each, divided into a middle and Side Aisles, the lofty Columns, which are all Semiarched, are embelished with jottings or projections Above the Cornices," * * * *
MacKies Historical description of the Abbey of Paisley, 1835