The international geography . rof prosperous seaports along its coast. There are still many fishing villages,but the only harbours for steamers are Bumf island and Kirkcaldy, the latterthe chief centre of linoleum manufacture in Great Britain. The ancientcity of St. Andrews, with the oldest university in Scotland, founded in 1411,stands on the shores of a sandy bay in the extreme east, where the links madeit famous centuries ago, as it is famous still, for the royal and ancientgame of golf. Edinburgh, originally a castle on a lofty crag (see sectionfrom west to east in Fig. 25), grew into a w^
The international geography . rof prosperous seaports along its coast. There are still many fishing villages,but the only harbours for steamers are Bumf island and Kirkcaldy, the latterthe chief centre of linoleum manufacture in Great Britain. The ancientcity of St. Andrews, with the oldest university in Scotland, founded in 1411,stands on the shores of a sandy bay in the extreme east, where the links madeit famous centuries ago, as it is famous still, for the royal and ancientgame of golf. Edinburgh, originally a castle on a lofty crag (see sectionfrom west to east in Fig. 25), grew into a w^alled town, the one street ofwhich, with branching wynds and closes, descended the steeply-sloping tail to the later palace of Holyrood. Within the last centurythe space around the castle and Calton Hill has been laid out instreets and squares which stretch to the shore of the Firth of Forth,and suburbs also spread far to the south. Edinburgh retains thesupreme courts of Scotland, and other survivals of its life as a Scotland 159 The university is the youngest in Scotland (1582), and is renowned mainlyfor its medical school. Book printing and brewing are among the moreimportant of the industries of the town. As the headquarters of manybanks and insurance offices it is of financial importance, and the GeneralAssemblies of the Scottish churches make it an ecclesiastical centre grandeur of its site, and the bold design and fine architecture of thestreets and public buildings, make it in the opinion of many the finest cityin Europe. The adjacent seaport of Leith docs a large shipping trade. The Western Low^land Towns.—The centre of the Lowlandplain is engaged in the characteristic industry of oil-shale mining, and thedistillation of paraffin. Further west the coal-mines yield more than halfthe output of Scottish coal-fields, most of which is employed in the many
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