Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity; . e to be the children, or grand children of decayed merchants inEdinburgh. The branches of education taught here, are English,Latin, Greek, and French; geography and the use of the globes,with arithmetic and book-keeping. It has been observed, thatthe treatment of the boys in this Hospital, is such as is probablyno where else to be paralleled j for as an incentive to learningand diligence, those brought up to literary pursuits, areallowed ten pounds each annually, to prosecute their studiesin the college of Edinburgh, for the term of five years ; andupon l
Views in Edinburgh and its vicinity; . e to be the children, or grand children of decayed merchants inEdinburgh. The branches of education taught here, are English,Latin, Greek, and French; geography and the use of the globes,with arithmetic and book-keeping. It has been observed, thatthe treatment of the boys in this Hospital, is such as is probablyno where else to be paralleled j for as an incentive to learningand diligence, those brought up to literary pursuits, areallowed ten pounds each annually, to prosecute their studiesin the college of Edinburgh, for the term of five years ; andupon leaving the university, the sum of thirty pounds is givento them as an encouragement to proceed in their studies,privately. Such boys as are designed for trade, have twentypounds given with them as- an apprentice fee, and if they con-duct themselves faithfully and industriously during their service,and remain thereafter three years unmarried, they receive thesum of fifty pounds, to assist them in commencing a trade ontheir own Wj1S©1E[ MSWSS ^Z .fota ItrcamiiU Jufyzjidil. WEIGH HOUSE. At the upper or northern end of the West Bow, and at the junc-ture of the Castle-hill and Lawn-market, stands the Weigh House,an ancient and mis-shapen building. It is said, however, thatits architecture was at one time admired : the ground which itcovers, was granted to the inhabitants of Edinburgh, by kingDavid II. in the twenty-third year of his reign, and A. D. is situated under the guns of the Castle, the quantity andvalue of goods deposited in it, having formed an attraction tothe plunderer, and rendering it necessary that it should besecurely placed and well guarded. In the year 1740, the Pretender having entered Edinburghin triumph, the highland army immediately kept guard at theWeigh House and other avenues to the castle, and in a fewdays orders were ^ven to the guard here to cut off all inter-course with the castle. The governor dreading a want ofpr
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