3?2 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Granton.
lecturer, and was soon made professor. ? It is to
him,? says the Edindurgh Magazine for 1790,
?? we are indebted for the use of acescent vegetsbles
in low, remittent, and putrid fever, and the early
and copious exhibition of bark, which has been
of the College of Physicians in Dublin, in 1784.
He died in 1789.
The principal feature at Granton is in its wellplanned,
extensive, massively built, and in every re
spect magnificent pier, constructed at the expense ot
interdicted from mistaken facts deduced from false
theories.?
In 1774, on the death of his only brother in
Scotland, he brought over this brother?s widow, with
her nine children, and settled them all in Ireland.
His eldest son, William, who had graduated in
physic at Edinburgh in 1779, he took as an assis
tant, but he died soon after, in his twenty-eighth
year. When the Royal Medical Society was e s
tablished at Paris he was named a fellow of it, and
OLD ENTRANCE TO ROYSTON (NOW CAROLINA PARK), 1851. (Affwa Drawing& Willam Chunw?ng.)
the Duke of Buccleuch, and forming decidedly the
noblest harbour in the Firth of Forth. It was
commenced in the November of 1835, and partially
opened on the Queen?s coronation day, 28th of
June,?1838, by the duke?s brother, Lord John Scott,
in presence of an immense crowd of spectators, and
in commemoration of the day, one portion of it is
called the Victoria Jetty.
The pier can be approached by vessels of the
largest class. A commodious and handsome hotel
