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A Brief Account of a Tour Through Some Parts of Scotland
A Brief Account of a Tour Through Some Parts of Scotland Author:Robert Hunter Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. The Buildings in the Scottish Metropolis — The CastJe — St. Giles' Church—Holyrood House—College—Museum— Surgeons' Hall—Heriot's Hospital—Parliam... more »ent Square— Arthur's Seat—Objects on Gallon Hill—Burns' Monument— Bridewell— Jail— Post- Office—Panorama—Diorama—. Botanical Garden—Dalkeith—Duke of Buccleuch's Seat— Martyrs' Tomb—Stockbridge. The new town of Edinburgh is built with great regularity, and according to a handsome plan: — it has been called a city of palaces. The houses are constructed of a beautiful white freestone found in the neighbourhood, and many of them cannot be surpassed for architectural beauty. The streets are wide and spacious, and intersect each other at right angles; while many of them terminate in a large square, and sometimes a crescent, the centre of which is laid out as pleasure ground. In company with some of my Edinburgh friends, I enjoyed a walk in the Prince's Street gardens — a place which seems filled with lovers' bowers. The houses consist of three, four, and even five stories, and are divided into flats. At the street door, there is a bell for each flat,or rather half flat —r two families often occupying one; so that in some streets it is common to see six or eight bell handles at each door, with the name on each. The servant can open the street door without coming down stairs ; so that the door opens as if by magic. The old town has no regularity in its streets, except in such as have been lately built. The High Street, the lower part of which is called the Canongate, has a magnificent appearance. Some of the houses here are ten or twelve stories high. The Castle stands at the top, and the Palace of Holyrood house at the bottom. St. Giles' Church, which contains three places of worship : — the Parliament house and buildings c...« less