Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . field Linls {Anglice, Downs),south side of the town, may be visited with Heriots the year 1722 a marshy ground, anciently called the Burrow-loch Boroughmuir, in the southern environs of the city, wasinclosed, drained, planted with trees, and traversed by extensivebroad walks, for the accommodation of the citizens. The publicgrounds, which receive the appellation of the Meadows, andbear some resemblance to the Green Park in London, arebordered on the south-west side with extensive open downs,called Bruntsfield Links, which are also open to t
Black's picturesque tourist of Scotland . field Linls {Anglice, Downs),south side of the town, may be visited with Heriots the year 1722 a marshy ground, anciently called the Burrow-loch Boroughmuir, in the southern environs of the city, wasinclosed, drained, planted with trees, and traversed by extensivebroad walks, for the accommodation of the citizens. The publicgrounds, which receive the appellation of the Meadows, andbear some resemblance to the Green Park in London, arebordered on the south-west side with extensive open downs,called Bruntsfield Links, which are also open to the public,and form a place of agreeable recreation for youth, as well asan excellent golfing ground. In a stable at the head of the links Bruce wrote the most ofhis travels in Abyssinia. It was then a solitary hut quite in thecountry, and so far from town as to afford perfect retirementand seclusion. Kewington, Bruntsfield, Oreenltill, Morning side,and Canaan, THE MEADOWS. 65 are the principal suburbs on the south side of Edinburgh. Thej. ^—^.9^^^/^g«^_ THE GAME Of GOLl. occupy the slope of a hill, with a pleasant southern exposure,and looking towards Arthurs Seat and the Pentland Hills. Southern Cemetery, Grange, south side of the town, is similarto that of Warriston, diftering only in respect of its commandinga view of Edinburgh from the south instead of from the the late Dr. Chalmers and Hugh Miller are buried. George Square is the principal square in the old the close of the last century, it was the residence ofthe higher ranks—such as the l)uchess of Gordon, the Countessof Sutherland, the Countess of Glasgow, Viscount Duncan, theHon. Henry Erskine, and many other persons of distinctionThe house of Walter Scott, Esq., , father of the novelist,was on the west side of the square (No. 25), but previous to hisremoval to this quarter he lived in a tenement at the head ofCollege Wynd, a narrow alley leading from the Cowgate tothe present North Col
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