Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . xxvi., p. 701. 22 The Green of the district, we should be in danger of forgettingthat we had the presence of the Carmelites inAberdeen for three hundred and fifty years. Oneremembers the briefly awakened interest in the subjectthat took place in June of 1891, when, in the courseof some digging operations in Carmelite Lane, theworkmen came upon part of the old Carmelite burialplace. The quantity of bones disclosed on that occa-sion (without the slightest trace of coffin or enclosingmaterial of any kind) indicated the considerable usethat had been
Historical Aberdeen : the Green and Its Story . xxvi., p. 701. 22 The Green of the district, we should be in danger of forgettingthat we had the presence of the Carmelites inAberdeen for three hundred and fifty years. Oneremembers the briefly awakened interest in the subjectthat took place in June of 1891, when, in the courseof some digging operations in Carmelite Lane, theworkmen came upon part of the old Carmelite burialplace. The quantity of bones disclosed on that occa-sion (without the slightest trace of coffin or enclosingmaterial of any kind) indicated the considerable usethat had been made of the Carmelite cemetery. Onthe same occasion a portion of the old CarmeliteChapel was brought to light—the lower part of abuttress, of Morayshire sandstone. Although a merefragment, it was enough to show that the Carmelites,as well as others of the monks of the neighbourhood,had a right taste in architecture as well as a truespirit of worship before the looseness and levity creptin which brought their inevitable and THE GREEN,in. PERSON standing near the fountain, inthe Green, looking westward, has onhis right hand a long line of very highbuildings, the result of the constructionof Union Street at a sufficiently high level to meet thehigh ground that lay west of the Denburn formation of Union Street at such a height, closeto, and practically parallel with, the Green, naturallyaltered greatly the appearance of the Green on thatside, much more so, indeed, than the present genera-tion can very easily appreciate. The dwellings alongthere, up to the close of the eighteenth century, wereof low height, so that there was a freedom, so tospeak, between the Green and, say, the Woolmanhill,or between the Green and St. Nicholas Church, thatis now wholly awanting. One may judge of this, tosome extent, from the level of the Correction Wynd,so called from the House of Correction that wasestablished there in the year 1636 for all idle personsand vagabonds
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