. Eight journeys abroad. but is now divided into three partsand three different ministers preach there at the same time. The next morning we went up on Carlton Hill to take a view of the city. Edinburgh has been compared to Athens—in point of situation and architecture. Edinburgh castle stands on a high crag, which looms up high above the rest of the city and is inaccessible except on one side, where a street runs down from it into the heart of the old city, to the castle of Holyrood, which slopes away from this street on both sides into a ravine. 116 SCOTLAND On the other side of one of these
. Eight journeys abroad. but is now divided into three partsand three different ministers preach there at the same time. The next morning we went up on Carlton Hill to take a view of the city. Edinburgh has been compared to Athens—in point of situation and architecture. Edinburgh castle stands on a high crag, which looms up high above the rest of the city and is inaccessible except on one side, where a street runs down from it into the heart of the old city, to the castle of Holyrood, which slopes away from this street on both sides into a ravine. 116 SCOTLAND On the other side of one of these ravines stands the new the top of this hill where we were standing we had asplendid view of both old and new town, and I have neverseen a more picturesque sight, there is so much more varietyin its position than is usual. At our feet lay the Castle ofHolyrood, so celebrated in History, and on the other side Leith,the seaport of Edinburgh and in the distance the Bare Rocks,where the Covenanters used to HOLYROOD CASTLE, EDINBURGH The monuments to .Nelson and Dugald Stewart are on thishill, also the unfinished remains of a building designed to be acopy of the Parthenon at Athens. The effect when you are downat the other end of the city looking up the ravine is very impres-sive and different from anything I have ever seen. HolyroodCastle which we visited next is now used by the Queen when-ever she comes here, and has been remodeled to serve modernpurposes, but the rooms connected with the history of Mary,Queen of Scots, are left just as they were when she used them, her drawing room and bed chamber, and adjoining the latter 117 EIGHT JOURNEYS ABROAD the little supping room in which took place the tragedy ofRizzio. They showed us the very staircase leading to herbedroom by which Lord Darnley and his associates ascendedand entered the supping room. Here they seized Rizzioand dragged him through her bedroom out into the draw-ing room, stabbing him a great many time
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