. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . m. EDIMirKGll, IKoM AND BK TlIAN KFU GLIMPSES OF EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. T ^ 11 M Ilrst sight of Eiuxdukcii is something never to be forgotten. ManyX strangers have their earhest view of the city from the higli bridgethat crosses from the Old Town to the New, as they emerge from therailway station below ; others, more fortunate, who have arrived after dark,or in the twilight of a summers evening, see it for the first time in themorning light from some hotel window in Princes Street, commanding thelong sweep of Old Edinburgh downward fro
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . m. EDIMirKGll, IKoM AND BK TlIAN KFU GLIMPSES OF EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW. T ^ 11 M Ilrst sight of Eiuxdukcii is something never to be forgotten. ManyX strangers have their earhest view of the city from the higli bridgethat crosses from the Old Town to the New, as they emerge from therailway station below ; others, more fortunate, who have arrived after dark,or in the twilight of a summers evening, see it for the first time in themorning light from some hotel window in Princes Street, commanding thelong sweep of Old Edinburgh downward from the Castle Rock, fronted bytall buildings and towers that overhang the ravine ; while the slopes beloware gay with shrubs and flowers, and Arthurs Seat beyond rears its massivehead. The graceful spire of the Stdii Monument forms an appropriateforeground ; to the right the low colonnades of the Art Galleries close inthe garden view, while to the left the eye ranges from the monuments ofthe Calton Hill and the stately buildings at its foot, almost
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