Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI

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Go to: « Kay's Originals Vol. 1 « Kay's Originals Vol. 2 « Memorials of Edinburgh in the Olden Time « Edinburgh Past and Present « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. I « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. II « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. III « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. IV « Old and New Edinburgh Vol. V Old and New Edinburgh Vol. VI Plates Ch 20: Leith - Historical Survey (continued) Ch 21: Leith - Historical Survey (continued) Ch 22: Leith - Historical Survey (concluded) Ch 23: Leith - The Kirkgate Ch 24: Leith - The Kirkgate (concluded) Ch 25: Leith - Tolbooth Wynd and Adjoining Streets Ch 26: Leith - Rotten Row, Broad Wynd, Bernard Street, Baltic Street, and Quality Street Ch 27: Leith - Constitution Street, The Shore, Coal Hill, and Sheriff Brae Ch 28: North Leith Ch 29: Leith - The Links Ch 30: Leith - The Sands Ch 31: Leith - The Harbour Ch 32: Memorabilia of the Shipping of Leith and its Maritime Affairs Ch 33: Leith - The Docks Ch 34: Inchkeith Ch 35: Newhaven Ch 36: Wardie, Trinity, and Granton Ch 37: The Environs of Edinburgh Ch 38: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 39: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 40: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 41: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 42: The Environs of Edinburgh (continued) Ch 43: The Environs of Edinburgh (concluded) General Index Contents List of Illustrations

324 OLD AND NEW EDINBURGH. [Colinton. Jeannie, as well he might be?-wrote Carlyle in 1867-?0ne of the brightest and cleverest creatures in the whole world; full of innocent rustic simplicity and variety, yet with the gracefullest discernment, and calmly natural deportment ; instinct with beauty to the finger-ends ! . , . Jeffrey?s acquaintanceship seemed, and was, for the . time, an immense acquisition to me, and everybody regarded it as my highest good fortune, though in the end it did not practically amount to much. from its resemblance to the Chinese petunse or kaolin, out of which the finest native china is made, it has obtained the name of Petunsepenibndica. Boulders of granite, gneiss, and other primitive rocks, lie on the very summits of the Pentlands, and jaspers of great beauty are frequently found there. These summits and glens, though possessing little wood, are generally verdant, and abound in beauty and boldness of contour. The fine pas- DREGHORN CASTLE, Meantime it was very pleasant, and made us feel as if no longer cut off and isolated, but fairly admitted, or like to be admitted, and taken in tow by the world and its actualities.? A portion of the beautiful Pentland range rises in the parish of Colinton. Cairketton Craigs on the boundary between it and Lasswade, the most northerly of the mountains, are 1,580 feet in height above the level of the Firth of Forth ; the Allermuir Hill and Capelaw Hill rise westward of it, with Castlelaw to the south, 1,595 feet in height. Cairketton Craigs are principally composed of clayey felspar, strongly impregnated with black oxide of iron. This substance, but for its inipregnation, would be highly useful to the potter, and tures sustain numerous flocks of sheep, and exhibit various landscapes of pleasing pastoral romance, whiie their general undulating outline alike arrests and delights the eye. The view from Torphin, one of the low heads of the Pentlands, is said to be exactly that of the vicinity of Athens, as seen from the base of Mount Anchesimus. ?Close upon the right,? wrote Grecian Wliams, ?? Brilessus is represented by the hills of Braid; before us in the dark and abrupt mass of the Castle rises the Acropolis; the hill of Lycabettus joined to that of Areopagus, appears in the Calton; in the Firth of Forth we behold the agean Sea ; in Inchkeith Bgina ; and the hills of the Peloponnesus are precisely those of the

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