and here and there were sedgy pools and lonely displayed; stout and true Covenanters borne forth
tarns, where the heron fished and waded, with the i in groups to die at the gallows or in the Greygreat
sheet of the South
Loch, where now the Meadows
lie; and there, too,
was Duddingston, but in
size twice the extent we
find it now.
Of all these hills have
looked on since the Roman
altars of Jove smoked at
lnveresk and Cramond, of
all the grim old fortress on
its rock and St. Giles?s
Gothic and imperial crown
have seen, we shall endeavour
to lay the wondrous
story before our
readers.
The generations of men
are like the waves of the
sea ; we know not whence
they come or whither they
go; but generation after
generation of citizens shall
Banquo?s spectral line of
. Dinas-Eiddyn, with their
glittering torques, armlets,
and floating hair; the
hoodedScoto-Saxons of Lothian
and the Merse, with
ringed bymes and long
battle-axes ; the steel-clad
knights bf the Bruces and
the Jameses ; merchants
and burghers in broadcloth
; monks, abbots, and
nuns; Templars on their
trial at Holyrood for sorcery
and . blasphemy;
Knights - hospitallers and
hermits of St. Anthony;
the old fighting merchant
mariners of Leith, such as
the Woods, the Bartons,
and Sir Alexander Mathieson,
(( the king of the sea ; ?
friars churchyard, where
stands the tomb which
tells us how 18,000 ofthem
perished as ?noble martyrs
for Jesus Christ ;?
cavaliers in all their
bravery and pride, and in
the days of their suffering
and downfall j the brawling
gallants of a century later,
who wore lace ruffles and
rapiers, and ? paraded ??
their opponents on the
stiiallest provocation in the
Duke?s Walk behind Holyrood
; the giave senators
and jovial lawyers of the
last century, who held their
?high jinks? in dingy
taverns near the Parliament
House; and many of the
quaint old citizens who
pass before us like figure in the valuable repertory of Kay :-all shall
kings; the men of pass in review before us, and we shall touch on
them one and all, as we
think of them, tenderly
and kindly, as of those
who are long since dead
and gone-gone to their
solemn account at the foot
of the Great WhiteThrone.
In picturesque beauty the
capital of Scotland is second
to none. ?( What the
tour of Europe was necessary
to see,I find congregated
in this one city,?
said Sir David Wilkie.
?Here alike are the beauties
of Prague and of Salzburg,
the romantic sites of
Orvieto and Tivoli, and
all the magnificence of the
Bays of Naples andGenoa.
COUNTER SEAL OF THE ABOVE.? (Af7e-r Hemy LahzJ Here, indeed, to the painwitches
andwizards perishing
in the flames at the Grassmarket or the Gallow-
-lee ; the craftsmen in arms, with their Blue Banner
The device of the common seal represents a castle triple-towered,
the gats thrown open. In uch of the towen is the head of a soldier.
F o l i e appears at the lower part and side of the seal, and above the
towen may be seen a crescent and a mullet. The lettcrinz is ?SIGIL- - LUY COMYUNI BURGI DE EDINBCBHG.?
ter?s fancy may be 6und
realised the Roman Capitol and the Grecian
Acropolis.??
t A full length figure df St. Giles standing within a Gothic porch in
pontifical vestments but without a mitre; in his right hand he holds
a crozier, and in his left a boak. At each side is a short staff terminating
in a fleur-de-lis. Branches of foliagk ornament the lower part
and sides of the design. The lettering k ?? EcrDrI SINGNO CREDATIS
(COUDE BENNI) GNO:? (Fmm a Dmnunt dated 1392).
