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Edinburgh, by Robert Louis Stevenson
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Title: Edinburgh Picturesque Notes
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date: November 5, 2010 [eBook #382] [This file was first posted on February 12, 1995]
Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1903 Seeley & Co. Ltd. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
EDINBURGH
Picturesque Notes by Robert Louis Stevenson
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People's Edition.
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LONDON SEELEY & CO. LTD., 38 GREAT RUSSELL STREET 1903
CHAPTER I.
INTRODUCTORY.
The ancient and famous metropolis of the North sits overlooking a windy estuary from the slope and summit of three hills. No situation could be more commanding for the head city of a kingdom; none better chosen for noble prospects. From her tall precipice and terraced gardens she looks far and wide on the sea and broad champaigns. To the east you may catch at sunset the spark of the May lighthouse, where the Firth expands into the German Ocean; and away to the west, over all the carse of Stirling, you can see the first snows upon Ben Ledi.
But Edinburgh pays cruelly for her high seat in