. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. d then gracefully, and in an easy gra-dient, slopes away into the plain which intervenesbetween it and the sea. This eminence is of softand nearly imperceptible declivity at its western end ;but on the east it breaks suddenly down, and leavesa gorge between its own base and that of Calton-hill. Along this beautiful flat ridge stands the ori-ginal New Town; and on its northern, slow de-scent, as well as on the plains beyond it, both north-ward and westward, stands the second New Town,or most magnificent and boasted portion
. The topographical, statistical, and historical gazetteer of Scotland. d then gracefully, and in an easy gra-dient, slopes away into the plain which intervenesbetween it and the sea. This eminence is of softand nearly imperceptible declivity at its western end ;but on the east it breaks suddenly down, and leavesa gorge between its own base and that of Calton-hill. Along this beautiful flat ridge stands the ori-ginal New Town; and on its northern, slow de-scent, as well as on the plains beyond it, both north-ward and westward, stands the second New Town,or most magnificent and boasted portion of the me-tropolis of Scotland. Most travellers who have visited both cities haveremarked a resemblance, as to site and general ap-pearance, between Edinburgh and Athens. Stuart,the author of The Antiquities of Athens, was thefirst who vividly depicted it; and he has been fol-lowed by Dr. Clarke, Mr. H. W. Williams, and somany other literary painters well-qualiiied to forma correct judgment, that the names Modern Athens,and the Athens of the North, have been assigned. EDINBURGH. 433 to Edinburgh by general consent. Mr. Williamssays: The distant view of Athens from the iEgeansea is extremely like that of Edinburgh from thefrith of Forth; though certainly the latter is con-siderably superior. There are, he adds, sev-eral points of view on the elevated grounds nearEdinburgh, from which the resemblance betweenthe two cities is complete. From Tor-Phin, inparticular, one of the low heads of the Pentlands,immediately above the village of Colinton, the land-scape is exactly that of the vicinity of Athens, asviewed from the bottom of Mount upon the right, Brilessus is represented by themound of Braid; before us, in the abrupt and darkmass of the castle, rises the Acropolis; the hill Ly-cabetus, joined to that of the Areopagus, appears inthe Calton; in the frith of Forth we behold theiEgean sea; in Inch-Keith, jEgina; and the hills ofthe Peloponnesus are precisely those o
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