Miss Burns, a celebrated beauty of the 18th century. Arrived in Edinburgh in 1789, aged 20, and immediately became notorious for her evening promenades. She took ill a few years later, and died in 1792 in Rosslyn. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Portraits and Caricature Etchings, Hugh Paton, Edinburgh, 1842.

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