Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s of James V., Magdalene of France, andMary of Guise ; and the griftin holds the shields ofJames IV. and his queen, Margaret of pinnacles are highly floriated, and enrichedwith flowers and medallions. It is in every way a marvellous piece of stonecarving. The flying buttresses connecting the stagesare deeply cusped. On the second stage are eightfigures t)pical of the sixteenth century, representingsoldiers, courtiers, musicians, and a lady-falconer,each two feet six inches in height. On the upperstage are fo
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . s of James V., Magdalene of France, andMary of Guise ; and the griftin holds the shields ofJames IV. and his queen, Margaret of pinnacles are highly floriated, and enrichedwith flowers and medallions. It is in every way a marvellous piece of stonecarving. The flying buttresses connecting the stagesare deeply cusped. On the second stage are eightfigures t)pical of the sixteenth century, representingsoldiers, courtiers, musicians, and a lady-falconer,each two feet six inches in height. On the upperstage are four archers of the Scottish Guard, support-ing the imperial crown. It occupies the site whereonfor some years stood a statue of Queen Victoria,which has now disappeared. Still, as of old, since the union of the crowns,for a fortnight in each year the Lord High Com-missioner to the General Assembly of the Churchof Scotland holds semi-royal state in Holyrood,gives banquets in its halls, and holds his levees inthe Gallery of the Kings. So OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [North IIOLVROOU PALACE, WEST FRONT. CHAPTER MOUND. The North Loch used for Sousings and Duckings—The Boats, Swans, Duclcs, and Eels—Accidents in the Loch—Last Appearance of the Loch—Formation of the Mound— Geordie Boyds Mud Brig—The Rotunda—Royal Institution—Board of Manufactures—Historj* of the Board—The Equivalent Money—Sir J. Shaw Lefevres Report—School of Design—Gallery of Sculpture—Royal Society of Edinburgh—Museumof Antiquities. The garden wherein St. David budded trees andcultivated such fruits and flowers as were thenknown in Britain is a place of flowers and shrubsagain, save where it is intersected by the prosaicrailway or the transverse Earthen Mound; butthose who see the valley now may find it difficultto reahse, that for 300 years it was an impassablelake, formed for the defence of the city on thenorth, when the wall of 1450 was built; but thewell that fed it is flow
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