Dayton daily empire. [volume] (Dayton [Ohio]) 1850-1865, 1863-12-09
Written expressly for the Dayton EmpTe.l
A SU Nj MER In EUROP L.
NO. XII.
EDINBURGH.


fell in love with Edinburg. or Edinboro, as
all tho Scotch call it, at first sight. I expect
ed to see peculiar looking city, but mean
and dirty one. l found it picturesque, an
tique, clean, and imposingly beautiful.
The Castle which is the first thing that the
eye of stranger rests upon, stands high up
in the air on hill, which is accessible only
from the east From the Castle, the Street
which was the main one of the old city, pass
es down on the back bone of the ridge for,
perhaps, mile, receiving half dozen names
in its progress, reaching 10 Holyrood Palace
| On both sides of this ridge as near to the Cas-
tie as the houses could be clustered, the old
town was built-the nev city occupies the
other side Of the deep ravine to the north
This great cash in the city's face was once
a great disadvantage and Disagreement but
it is neither now. The railroads could not
have entered the city il its deep bed had not
been so far below the common level, and with
out those massive bridges, connecting the new
town and the old, and those green gardens
which, on both Sides extend down to the track
of the railway, the distinguishing charms and
beauties of the city would be gone.
In the old town, the houses are small and
quaint and the streets are narrow and dirty
but in the new town, the residences are ele
CANT and the streets broad, well paved and
clean, and in stroll through them, one meets
IL lie nd aNa t,,I 4
lghtful profusion.
Besides the high hill on which the castle il
built, there is another, called Calton Hill,
within the limits Of the city, and still another
| called Arthur's Seat, eight hundred and TWEEN,
+, ty-fve feet high just without them W.
climbed Calton Hill, and saw there the twelve
. beautiful columns, which were erected as the
beginning of Il monument to the heroes o
Waterloo, but which will remain probably for
ever as it is--a monument Of architecture
Q ambition, cut short in a proud career, by 81
, disgusting a circumstance as O poverty o
, purse. Also ponderous monument to Mel
son, on which is an inscription by Jeffrey
worthy alike of the author and the subject
The monument s erected, il says, by the citi
\ zens Of Edinburg, not to express their unyai
Il ing sorrow for his death, nor yet to celebrate
y luN NhutSulcSo BioilCa VI hlo iiet uuh DJ III
noble example, TO teach their sons to emulat
: what they admire, and, like him, when dut
requires it, to die for their country,
Over the town there was a thin cloud Z
smoke, which, it is said is always there, an
Z from which circumstance the place gained it
popular nam of "Auld ReGkieN
e We drove into the front yard of Ho iyroo
d Palace, which is large building in quat
r. rangulnr iormi surrounding a court, probs
It. bly, hundred feet Square, and waited, wit
dozens of other sightseers, for a minute an
OF a halt, until it was precisely eleven o cloel
m when the bare-legged soldier opened the door
J. and we poured in-paying a sx-pence eae
for tickets. We were iirst turned loose inl
n, long room, which has been the scene
'r- many festival in the past, whose walls al
rs hung round with more than hundred pu
ell traits of Scottish kings and queens, from
G. seven hundred down. l stopped only b
he fore one of them-that Of Mary Queen
,s. Scots, the woman who, by the charms of b
ie- mind and person, set every man crazy vi
came near her--rough old John Knox e
lu- cepted--and whose eventful career and 81
le- end make her one Of the most interesting CHI
srs acters in history. The picture is that Of
M woman Of the average size, having fu
De- though not at all high, forehead--A nose ii
rs. exceeds considerably the Greeian proporti