This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... Starting again from the Register Office, the stranger will now proceed southwards by crossing the North Bridge. This bridge was founded in 1763, and completed in 1769. In the spacious area below may be seen the Waverley Station of the North British Railway, contiguous to which are the new fruit and vegetable markets. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 Excerpt: ... Starting again from the Register Office, the stranger will now proceed southwards by crossing the North Bridge. This bridge was founded in 1763, and completed in 1769. In the spacious area below may be seen the Waverley Station of the North British Railway, contiguous to which are the new fruit and vegetable markets. Looking westwards in the same direction a very good view is obtained of the new building of the Bank of Scotland and the Castle. Eastwards there is a somewhat striking view of the prisons, Calton Hill, Arthur's Seat, and the sea in the distance. The continuation of the North Bridge southwards beyond the High Street is called the South Bridge, and consists of a long series of underground arches, one of which spans the Cowgate, about half-way, where a glimpse may be obtained into the nether world of Edinburgh society, with which the tourist will probably have no wish to cultivate a closer acquaintance. ATPROACH TO THE UNIVERSITY AND MUSEUM OF SCIENCE AND ART. THE UNIVERSITY. The University of Edinburgh dates its existence from the year 1582, when James VI. was sixteen years of age, and had been for fifteen years king of Scotland. Till that time there had been but three Universities in Scotland--that of St. Andrews (1412), that of Glasgow (1454), and that of King's College, Aberdeen (1494). The site was originally a kind of Buburb of gardens and straggling buildings, partly old church edifices, known by the name of St. Mary in the Fields, or, more shortly, Kirk o' Field; and before any college-building arose this Kirk o' Field had been made unexpectedly memorable by one of the most ghastly deeds in Scottish history. On the opposite side of the University quadrangle, as nearly as s can be ascertained on the spot occupied by the present Senate Hall...
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