60 EDINBURGH PAST AND PRESENT.
the new Vegetable Market, The flat roof, on a level with Princes Street, is
laid out in walks, from which fine views are obtained; while on the
south side of the station, there has recently been erected the retail Fish
Market, which was opened on the 4th of November 1876, the same day as
the West Princes Street Gardens were handed over to the public. Of the
many closes that run into the High Street from Cockburn Street, we
prefer approaching it by Anchor Close, rich in historical associations.
Here resided the mother of Drummond of Hawthornden ; here Bums revised
his earlier proofs in Smellie’s printing-office, which stood on the site now
occupied by the southern section of the 3otswian office;-strange that in
recent times, men of great genius and of kindred spirit with Burns should
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write their leaders there I Passing into the High Street through what may be
called the entrance to Smellie’s printing-office, and ‘pursuing our way westward,
the first opening on the right is Craig’s CIose, notable as containing the
printing and publishing house of Creech,-a portion of the building still
remains and is shown in the Engraving. Glancing at those relics of the past,
the mind naturally turns to the more remarkabIe of the present printing and
