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publishing houses of the city. Near at hand is that of the brothers Chambers,
and from the little corner shop at the Bow we follow the NeIsons to their
magnificent establishment at Hope Park ; Adam and Charles Black are in
the North Bridge ; Oliver and Boyd in Tweeddale Court ;l and from the Old
Town we accompany the Blackwoods to George Street in the New. Ranked
with them are the names of Constable, Clark, and Ballantyne, as letterpress
printers, and Johnston and Bartholomew as geogaphers and engravers.
Beside the memorial tablet to Napier of Merchiston, on the north wall of
St. Giles’s Cathedral, are the remains of the City Cross : Mr. Drummond’s
drawing shows the shaft as it stood in the grounds at Drum.
GREAT HALL IN THE PARLIAMENT HOUSe
The renovated choir of St. GiIes’s Cathedral was opened on Sunday morning,
9th March 1873, by the Rev. Dr. knot. The magnificent stained grass
windows by Ballantine add to the dignity of the venerable edifice, one of them
fo&ing a memoria1 to Stevenson, the engineer of the Bell Rock Lighthouse.
1 Tweeddale House, associated with the family of that name, became afterwards the British
Linen Company’s Bank, and has been for a long period occupied by Messrs. OIiver and Boyd.
