. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . is no ohtrusixeugliness ; even the .spectator onthe Waverley Bridge has so muchto attract his upward looks ine\ery direction that he forg(;ts tolook downwards at all ! Add tothis, that the traveller entering-iulinburgh from the south is notcarried past the upper storeys ofmean and squalid streets, as inso many English towns and cities,l)ut is afforded just one glimpse ofllolyrood, a glance at ArthursSeat, and is then plunged into a tunnel from which lie cincrgcs at tln footof all that is most characteristic in the architecture of the city. In th
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . is no ohtrusixeugliness ; even the .spectator onthe Waverley Bridge has so muchto attract his upward looks ine\ery direction that he forg(;ts tolook downwards at all ! Add tothis, that the traveller entering-iulinburgh from the south is notcarried past the upper storeys ofmean and squalid streets, as inso many English towns and cities,l)ut is afforded just one glimpse ofllolyrood, a glance at ArthursSeat, and is then plunged into a tunnel from which lie cincrgcs at tln footof all that is most characteristic in the architecture of the city. In this respect,therefore, the balance of advantage seems to be with the northern capital. \ he Old Town, as might be expected, contains many memorials of thep;ust, although more have disappeared. Auriml courts and wynds sufficientlyillustrate the street architecture of bygone days. Common stairs still leadand not in these parts of the city only to tenement above ttMUMuent, thevalue and the respectability diminishing with the height. To all pastoral. Magualen Chaiki,, Cowgate, Edinburgh. piiiiiMllia^^ ?. .^.!
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