Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . demented state totell his brother whathe had done, and there-after sank into a moodof mind that made allseem blank to morning the un-fortunate victim wasfound -with her throatcut to the bone, andmany other wounds re-ceived in her dyingstruggle. In the favourite oldEdinburgh religioustract, which narratesthe murderous storj, in telling wliere he wentbefore doing the deed, he says that he passed through the Tirlies, at the end of a lane whichwas near the Meadows. The entrance to the Park,near the Gibbet Fall, wa
Cassell's Old and new Edinburgh: its history, its people, and its places . demented state totell his brother whathe had done, and there-after sank into a moodof mind that made allseem blank to morning the un-fortunate victim wasfound -with her throatcut to the bone, andmany other wounds re-ceived in her dyingstruggle. In the favourite oldEdinburgh religioustract, which narratesthe murderous storj, in telling wliere he wentbefore doing the deed, he says that he passed through the Tirlies, at the end of a lane whichwas near the Meadows. The entrance to the Park,near the Gibbet Fall, was long known as theTirlies, imjjlying a sort of stile. Nicol Muschat was tried, and confessed all. Hewas hanged, on the 6th of the ensuing January inthe Grassmarket, while his associate Burnlxank wasdeclared infomous, and banished; and the ]ieople,to mark their horror of the event, in the oldScottish fashion raised a cairn on the spot wherethe murder was perpetrated, and it has ever sincebeen a well-remembereil locality. lhe first cairn was removed durincr the formation. by a cairn near the east gate and close to the northwall. The original cairn is said to have beenseveral paces farther west than the present one,the stones of which were taken out of the old wallwhen it was pulled down to give place to the newgate that was constructed previous to the late rojalvisit—that of George IV. In 1820 the pathway round Salisbury Craigs wasformed, and named the Radical Road from thecircumstance of the destitute and discontentedwest-country weavers being employed on its con-struction under a committee of gentlemen. Atthat time it was proposed to sow the rocks with wall-flowers and otherodoriferous and flower-ing plants. It was alsosuggested to plantthe clifis above thewalk with the rarestheaths from the Capeof Good Hope andother foreign parts.( / f ceklyJournal, XXIV.)The papers of thistime teem with bittercomplaints against theEarl of Haddington,who, as a keeper ofthe Royal Park, by an
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