104 ST. ANTHONY'S CHAPEL-BLENHEIM PLACE. Portobello, Musselburgh, and Prestonpans, on the coast; the fertile slopes of East Lothian, with the Garleton Hills, on the right; and the conical hill of North Berwick Law in the distant front. 284. RESTALRIG is an ancient village, on low ground environed by irrigated meadows. It was once a place of some importance, a kind of small rival to Edinburgh, the chief town of the barony on which Leith was built. A church was early built at it, on the site of a Culdee cell, made collegiate by James III., and rebuilt or extended by James IV. and James V.; and the choir, after having long been ruinous, was renovated about 1842, and is now in use. 285. COMELY GREEN and East Norton Place are small modern suburbs. The cross road at West Norton Place, now altered and improved, was the ancient main thoroughfare from Edin 281. ST. ANTHONY'S CHAPEL, situated on a precipitous knoll at the north base of Arthur's Seat, is the fragment of a hermitage, connected with an extinct chapel, belonging to a preceptory of St. Anthony at Leith, founded in 1435, by Sir Robert Logan of Restalrig. The fragment shows some plain corbels, and a bit of groined roof. At the foot of the rock below it is a clear, cool spring, called St. Anthony's Well, celebrated in the old plaintive song, "O waly, waly up yon bank." On the low ground to the north-burgh to Leith. All the ground between east was Muschat's Cairn, noted in Sir Walter Scott's "Heart of Mid-Lothian." 282. JOCK'S LODGE is a village, with a suite of cavalry barracks, near the north-east skirt of Arthur's Seat. The barracks stand within an extensive en-sign has been realized. closed square area. They were built about the end of last century, and are commonly called Piershill Barracks. 283. ST. MARGARET'S DEPOT of the North British Railway comprises a substantial and very extensive range of work-shops. Here lies nearly buried, beneath one of the work-shops, a very famous spring, long held in superstitious veneration, and known as St. Margaret's Well. A beautiful octagonal building, about 43 feet high, stood over the spring, with groined roof and Gothic doorway; and a decorated pillar rose from the spring to its roof, and discharged the water from grotesque gurgoils. A project is afoot for disinterring the structure, and re-edifying it on some eligible site. it and Leith Walk, from the skirt of Calton Hill northward to Leith, was designed, in the scheme of the New Town, to be filled with crescents, squares, and noble streets; but very little of the de 286. BLENHEIM PLACE exemplifies well the unequal height of the front and the rear of much of the architecture of Edinburgh, the houses here making a deep plunge beneath the level of the pavement, and showing one storey in front and four storeys in rear. Greenside Church, a little above it, is a Gothic abortion of 1838. The houses of Royal Terrace form a great symmetrical series, adorned at intervals with massive sets of attached Ionic or Corinthian columns. Carlton Terrace curves in a semicircle from Royal Terrace to Regent Terrace, and is neatly edificed. The houses of Regent Terrace form successive uniform ranges, with pillared doorways, continuous iron balconies, and massive cornices. Royal THE CASTLE AND THE ANCIENT CITY. Institution Paragraph and the Art Galleries upon it, left...289, 290, 291 South Hanover Street, right; West Prince's Street Gardens, backed by Ramsay Garden and the Castle Rock, left; Life Association of Scotland's Office, and New Club, right......... 292 Frederick Street, right; Castle Street, right... 364 St. Cuthbert's Church and Burying-ground, left front...... Charlotte Street, right; St. John's Episcopal Church, left...... Queensferry Street, Maitland Street, and Rutland Street, in front.Turn to the left, past the front of St. John's Church, into Lothian Road..... Go 150 yards along 293 294 295 Castle 296 Follow the curves of Cas tle Terrace, and those of its continuations, King's Bridge and Castle Place, altogether about 900 yards, to the head of West Bow; turn sharp there to the left, round Victoria Hall, into Castle Hill, and ascend westward to the gateway of the Castle. St. George's Free Church, St. Cuthbert's Lane, and the Naval and Military Academy, right; St. Cuthbert's Church, and fine view along the Prince's Street Gardens, left; the Unitarian Chapel, right; close view of the Castle Rock, left; Spittal Street, right; King's Bridge, passed Paragraph over; King's Stables and Grassmarket, in the hollow on the right 338 St. Columba's Episcopal Church and the Establishment Normal School, right; Victoria Hall, left......... 297 St. John's Free Church and head of West. Bow, right.. 298 Castle Hill, entered...... 299 Free Church Assembly Hall, right....... Short's Observatory, right............ ..... 301 Ramsay Lane, right.... 300 Water Reservoir, right 301 The Castle Esplanade, traversed, with grand views right and left.... 302 The Castle... Return down Castle Hill, and proceed right forward, down Lawnmarket, High Street, and Canongate, to the vicinity of Holyrood. Lawnmarket, tra 358 303 304 305 Milne's Court, James's at the further end by George IV.'s Bridge, 307 on a line with Bank Street, right............... 308 Dunbar's Close, left..... 309 Libberton's Wynd and County Hall, right... 310 County Square and Sig net Library, right.... 311 Old Tolbooth's site, and St. Giles's Church, right front.......... 312, 313 Parliament Square, with the Parliament House, behind St. Giles's Church............ 314 High Street, entered... 315 Advocates' Close, left; site of Luckenbooths, passed over....................................... 316 105 Paragraph Royal Exchange, left... 317 East ingress of Parliament Square, Police Office, and site of the ancient City Cross, right Anchor Close, Stamp 318 Office Close, Fleshmarket Close, Lord Cockburn Street, and Milne's Square, left.... 319 Fishmarket Close, Assembly Close, Covenant Close, and sites of Black Turnpike and Main Guard, right.............. 320 Hunter's Square and 322 Tron Church, right..... 321 North Bridge, left....... 265 South Bridge, on a line with North Bridge, right. Halkerston's Wynd, Allan Ramsay's shop, Carrubber's Close, and Bishop's Close, left...... 323 Niddry Street, Stri chen's Close, Blackfriars' Wynd, and South Gray's Close, right...... 324 John Knox's House, at the commencement of Nether Bow, left 325, 326 John Knox's Church, left; Tweeddale Court, right; Leith Wynd, left...... 327 St. Mary's Wynd, on a line with Leith Wynd, right. 106 PRINCE'S STREET GARDENS-THE MOUND. thoroughfare opposite Watergate; Holyrood, in front.... The tourist may now return to Prince's Street by Abbeyhill and Regent Road, as shown in XXI. But if, regardless of nuisance, he wish to see the earliest grand extensions of the city in their present lapsed condition of poverty and squalor, let him proceed as follows: Go to the right, along Horse Wynd or the Palace Yard, to the foot of South Back of Canongate; turn there to the right, and go along South Back of Canongate, Cowgate, and Grassmarket; leave the Para- 274 Para- last by the thorough- Pleasance, left......... 335 man Catholic Church, 287. PRINCE'S STREET GARDENS | Edinburgh, cost £2000, and was inauguare divided by the Mound into two sets, rated in 1846. The crucial spire is from called the East and the West. Both sets, a design by George M. Kemp, cost though engirt with thoroughfares, and £15,650, and was erected in 1840-44. All traversed along the bottom by the Edin- its parts and ornaments are in the same burgh and Glasgow Railway, enjoy a style, and on the same pattern, as those certain degree of seclusion, and are taste- of Melrose Abbey. Statues of the prinfully disposed in walks, lawns, shrub- cipal characters of Scott's poems and beries, and parterres. The East Gardens novels were intended to occupy all its belong to the public. They were laid numerous niches; but as yet only five, out in 1830, curtailed and injured by the representing Prince Charles, Meg Merconstructing of the railway, and reformed, rilees, the Lady of the Lake, the Last with great improvements, in 1849-50. Minstrel, and George Heriot, have been The West Gardens belonged originally to set up. The highest gallery, only a few the citizens, but were allowed to become feet from the top, is reached by a stairprivate property. An ancient Runic case through the walls, and commands a monument stands near their highest splendid bird's eye view of the city. A point, adjacent to the Castle Esplanade. visitor is allowed to ascend for a charge This is a block of granite, with curious of twopence. sculpture and inscription, brought from Sweden in 1787, and presented to the Scottish Society of Antiquaries. 288. SCOTT'S MONUMENT contains a white marble sitting statue of Sir Walter, and forms a crucial Gothic spire, rising from four grand basement arches, and soaring to the height of 200 feet. The statue is from the chisel of Steele of 289. THE MOUND serves the purpose of a bridge between the New Town and the Old. It is a mass of carried earth, accumulated from the excavations for founding the houses of the New Town between 1781 and 1830. It contains about two millions of cart-loads, and measures upwards of 800 feet in length, about 300 feet in breadth, and from 60 to 100 feet |