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. 1863 Excerpt: ...partly towards Arthur's Seat, and partly towards the Pentland Hills. They are divided into different districts, of which the principal are Newington, the Grange, Bruntsfield, Greenhill, Morningside, and Canaan. At the Grange is situated the Southern Cemetery, where the late Dr. Chalmers and Hugh Miller are buried. In ...
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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. 1863 Excerpt: ...partly towards Arthur's Seat, and partly towards the Pentland Hills. They are divided into different districts, of which the principal are Newington, the Grange, Bruntsfield, Greenhill, Morningside, and Canaan. At the Grange is situated the Southern Cemetery, where the late Dr. Chalmers and Hugh Miller are buried. In the same locality also is the Grange mansion-house, the property of Sir John Dick Lauder, Bart., and long the residence of the late Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, author of the account of the Morayshire Floods, " Highland Rambles," etc. At Morningside is Merchiston Castle, where the celebrated Napier, the inventor of logarithms, was born. Both the Grange House and it have been converted into educational establishments. Returning from the Links to that point of the Meadows Among the most memorable feats in the annals of golfing is that of a player who struck a ball over the top of St. Giles's steeple from a point within the Parliament Square. Another player, still alive, struck his ball over Melville's Monument, which, from the ground to the head of the statue, measures 150 feet. Charles I. was engaged in a party at this game on the Links of Leith (1641), when a letter was delivered into his hands giving him the first account of the rebellion in Ireland, and which caused him to leave Edinburgh the next day. James VII. also, while Duke of York, played the game with a keen relish on the same ground. where the walks cross each other, the stranger will be in the immediate neighbourhood of GEORGE SQUARE, the largest square in the Old Town, and which, towards the close of the last century, was the principal place of residence of the higher ranks; the Duchess of Gordon, the Countess of Sutherland, the Countess of Glasgow, Viscount Duncan, the Hon. H...
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