. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . CiioiK OF St. Ciium h, Iuhmiukcii. EDINIWRGII. ijf set off by the elaborate siilcndour of the details, especially in the choir. Topass in one morning from St. (Giless, the oklest of luliiiburgh churches, tothis of St. Marys, the newest, is most interesting and impressive. Morethan six hundred years separate the two structures in point of date ; andbetween the forms of faith which they severally represent, the difference hassometimes .seemed correspondingly great. I lajipily, we live in days in whichthe: true worshijiper, howe\er strong h
. Scottish pictures, drawn with pen and pencil . CiioiK OF St. Ciium h, Iuhmiukcii. EDINIWRGII. ijf set off by the elaborate siilcndour of the details, especially in the choir. Topass in one morning from St. (Giless, the oklest of luliiiburgh churches, tothis of St. Marys, the newest, is most interesting and impressive. Morethan six hundred years separate the two structures in point of date ; andbetween the forms of faith which they severally represent, the difference hassometimes .seemed correspondingly great. I lajipily, we live in days in whichthe: true worshijiper, howe\er strong his preference may be for one or for theother, may fuid Christian fellowship in Ixith. Tliere may be many folds :btit there is own Jlock, and one View tiii; Kurns Hill. Irom these ecclesiastical rellections, however, into which we have beenbetrayed by our visits to these great churches, it is good to escapeagain into the open air, and, quitting St. Marys Cathedral, by way of MelvilleStreet, and passing by St. (Georges Church, and through Charlotte .Square,to make our way; either by the stately and terraces which lie to thenorth of Princes Street, or by Princes Street itself, with its range of shopsand hotels on one side, and its lovely gardens on the other, extending asfar as the Scott Monument and the Waverley l>ridge, and along Waterloo 1-: 2 SCOTTISH PICTURES. Place, to the Calton Hill. Here the visitor, if he feels so inclined, mayascend the Nelson Monument, which towers above the city like a gigantictelescope, and commands a magnificent view over the Firth of P^orth in onedirection, and beyond the city southward to the Pentland Hills. We do notknow, however, that the prospect from the su
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