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rity School. There are also Sunday schools and Bible and Tract

societies.

Libraries, &c.-There are two public libraries, a Mechanics' Institution, and a Speculative Society.

Banks.-The Leith Banking Company was established in 1792, but it ceased to exist within the last few years. There are branches of the Royal and of the Edinburgh and Glasgow Banks; and the Commercial, the National, the British Linen Company, and Bank of Scotland have all agencies here. There is also a Savings

Bank.

Restalrig. The village of Restalrig lies to the south-east of Leith, and adjoining to it on the east is the village of Jock's Lodge, where there are barracks capable of containing a regiment of cavalry.

Newhaven.-This village lies about half a mile west of Leith Fort, and is inhabited chiefly by fishermen who supply the Edinburgh market with fish, oysters, &c. These fishermen, like most of those on the east coasts of Scotland, are a peculiar race of people, whose habits of life and occupations tend to keep them separate from the mass of the population. They rarely intermarry with other families, and thus they preserve a peculiar caste of countenance and physical constitution. This Newhaven colony is pre-eminent over others for its sober, industrious, and peaceable habits. The women, inured to daily exertion in the open air, are robust, active, and remarkable for their florid, healthy, and regular features, as also for the neatness and cleanliness of their personal appearance. The aspect of the male part of the community is less robust, but they are muscular, healthy, and active. Here there is a stone pier for the convenience of the fishermen, and the steam-boats which ply on the Frith.

On the rising ground in the vicinity of the village, are numerous villas with gardens attached. A church was also erected here in 1838, and Newhaven converted into a quoad sacra parish. The population in 1841 was 2103.

Trinity Chain Pier.-The grounds of Trinity extend to the westward, on which numerous handsome villas have been built. An elegant Chain Pier was erected here in 1820 under the direction of Captain Brown. The supports of the pier are fixed upon wooden piles; and the depth of the water is, at all times of the tide, sufficient to allow ordinary steam-boats to touch at the end of the pier, in order to receive passengers. This pier has never, however, been extensively used, and it is now greatly superseded

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by the harbour at Granton. It is too narrow to admit of bulky goods being carried along it.

The depth of water at the lowest tides is 6 feet 4 inches; the greatest depth at highest tides 26 feet; the ordinary depth 17 feet. The number of passengers in 1836 was upwards of 120,000. The annual-rent for the same year was L.800.

The terminus of the Edinburgh and Trinity Railroad is opposite to the chain pier, and a branch of the same is now forming onward to Granton harbour.

James IV. erected here a yard and dock for ship-building, and a harbour for the accommodation of vessels. There was also a chapel erected and dedicated to St James.

In 1510 the Town-Council of Edinburgh, apprehensive that this harbour might compete with and injure their port of Leith, purchased the superiority of it, which they still retain, including a right to the oyster scalps in the neighbouring frith. This fishery is rented at almost a nominal rent by the Newhaven fishermen. A few years ago, the Town- Council attempted to negotiate a more profitable lease of these oyster-beds to a London fishmonger; but the adventure proved an unfortunate one to both parties, and a source of great annoyance both to the poor fishermen and the numerous oyster eaters of Edinburgh.

In former times, we read of a rope-work, salt-work, and a glass manufactory, all in operation here, but now there is nothing of the kind. Upwards of 300 fishermen and pilots reside at Newhaven. Oyster dredging occupies a considerable number during the winter months. In summer, several boats' crews repair to the northern coasts, to engage in the herring fishing.

The sea has made great encroachments on the shore east of Newhaven. About fifty years ago "the Links" were so extensive as to admit the royal game of golf to be played on them. Now the ground has been entirely washed away.

July 1845.

Ecclesiastical State.

Paroch. Schoolmasters' Emoluments.

TABLE-Shewing the Ecclesiastical State, &c. of Parishes in the County of Edinburgh.

Annual amount of contributions to the poor.

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INDEX.

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Abercorn, Earl of, improvements by, 397
Abercrombie, Sir Ralph, 284
Abernethy, Sir Laurence, 332

· Academy, Edinburgh, 684

Advocates, faculty of, 715-library, 645
Adam, William, 250
Adamson, Rev. John, 9
Agricultural museum, 683
Agriculture and Rural economy, 13, 42,

52, 59, 70, 94, 122, 140, 181, 194, 202,
220, 287, 307, 318, 353, 374, 390, 419,
443, 504, 539, 550, 573, 599, 608, 612

Alexander the painter, 697

Alison, Professor, 116
Allan the painter, 697

Allan, John, improvements by, 142
Allermuir hill, 108, 324

Almond water, 134, 135, 357, 434, 435,

589, 594-aqueduct, 145

Anatomical museum, Edinburgh, 682
Anderson, Dr James, 548-Samuel, be-
quest by, 128

Anne, Duchess of Monmouth, 489
Antiquarian society, Edinburgh, 688
Antiquities, 5, 36, 51, 67, 90, 119, 137,
171, 201, 216, 270, 305, 317, 330, 340,
370, 388, 416, 501, 536, 554, 568, 766
Apprentice's pillar, Roslin, 347
Aqueduct, Almond, 145-Slateford, 126
Archers, Royal company of, 718
Archery at Musselburgh, 286
Archibald, Duke of Argyle, 387
Argyle's battery, 652

Arniston house, 52, 157, 173
Art Union of Scotland, 706
Artesian well, Dalkeith, 457

Arthur, Rev. Alexander, 529-Rev. John,
522-Rev. William, 235, 237
Arthur's seat hill, 381, 615, 616, 619
Ashley, history of property of, 83
Assembly hall, Edinburgh, 659

Association for promoting the fine arts,
706

Astronomical society, 688

Asylum for the blind, Edinburgh, 727
Aubigny, Lord Dalkeith, 479, 480
Baads house, 306

Baberton house, 546

Backwood water, 362

Baillie, James, Lord Forrester, 212—Mrs,
bequest by, 605

Balerno, chapel at, 555-sandstone at, |
544

Balmerinoch, Lord, 598

Banks, &c. Edinburgh, 751-Dalkeith,
508-Musselburgh, 299

Bank of Scotland, 751
Bannatyne, Nicol, 226

Barclay, Dr, bequest by, 687
Barnton house, 595

Barrie, Alexander, 496

Bassilie, Rev. David, 235, 237
Baths, Edinburgh, 738
Bavelaw burn, 545

Beatman's acre, tradition regarding, 538
Beechwood house, 215

Bell, Andrew, 740

Bell tree, the, 199

Bell's school, Leith, 780

Bells mains, village of, 184

Bells quarry, village of, 375
Bellwood house, 317

Belmont house, 215

Ben Johnson at Hawthornden, 326, 331
Bents house, 306

Berrie, John, Esq. 496

Bison, attempt to naturalise the, 455
Black, Rev. Mr, 631

Blackfriars' monastery, 656
Blackhaugh, ruins of castle at, 418
Black springs, Currie, 545
Blackup Scaurs hill, 49, 198
Blair's bursary, 678

Bleachfield, Roslin, 354

Blind, asylum for the, 727

Blue Blanket, the, 623

Board for encouragement of fisheries, &c.

699

Bogle's hole, 282

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Bonally ponds, 109-house, 114, 120
Bone dust, manufacture of, 292
Bonnington house, 92-history of
ty, 83-mineral spring at, 621
Bonnyrigg, village of, 609
Borough muir, the, 7, 624
Borthwick, family of, 162, 164-the first
Lord, 163-James, of Stow, 416
Borthwick, parish of, 150-castle, ruins
and history of, 156, 171-church, ruins
of, 172-hill, Druidical remains on,
202-village, 185

Botanic gardens, Edinburgh, 691
Botanical society, 693

Botany, 32, 50, 67, 80, 111, 135, 157,
199, 207, 252, 305, 313, 360, 384, 406,
437, 452, 561, 590, 621

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