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Abbey acres Almond Arthur's Seat Balerno bank Barley basin Blackford Hill Braid Braid Hills building built Burdiehouse burgh Burn Carboniferous Castle Celtic chiefly church clay climate Coal Measures Coalfield coast Colinton Corstorphine Crag Craigmillar Cramond Crichton crop Dalhousie Castle Dalkeith district Duddingston Loch East Lothian Edinburgh eighteenth century English famous feet Firth fish Fisherrow formed Glencorse Granton ground harbour Holyrood igneous industry inhabitants Inveresk ironstone islands James Joppa known Lanarkshire land Lasswade Limestone Midcalder Midlothian miles mills Moorfoot Hills Moorfoots Musselburgh named neighbourhood Newbattle Newhaven Niddrie North British Railway occupied Old Red Sandstone parish Penicuik Pentlands picturesque pier Pinkie port Portobello pressure Prestonpans Queen Ratho Restalrig ridge river road rocks Roman Roslin Royal Scotland Scots Scottish seams shale shore Silurian slope south-west southern species St Giles stone Stow strata Street surface tons tower town Turnips valley vessels Water of Leith wind
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Trang 10 - For on the smoke-wreaths, huge and slow, That round her sable turrets flow, The morning beams were shed, And tinged them with a lustre proud, Like that which streaks a thunder-cloud. Such dusky grandeur clothed the height, Where the huge Castle holds its state, And all the steep slope down, Whose ridgy back heaves to the sky, Piled deep and massy, close and high, Mine own romantic town!
Trang 66 - Edinburgh, in which it is set forth that they, "at his Majesty's request, for his pleasure, the honour and profit of his realm and lieges, had taken upon them to bring hame ane print, with all stuff belonging thereto, and expert men to use the same, for imprinting within the realm of the books of the laws, Acts of Parliament, chronicles, mass-books...
Trang 92 - Scots were sharing the booty, another line straightway appeared, in battle-array; so the Scots, on seeing it, slaughtered their prisoners, and armed their own vassals with the spoils of the slain ; then, putting away their jaded horses, and taking stronger ones, they fearlessly hastened to the fray. When this second line had been, at length, overcome, though with difficulty, and the Scots thought they had ended their task, there appeared a third, mightier than the former, and more choice in their...
Trang 97 - Dalkeith southward. In all which space, the dead bodies lay as thick as a man may note cattle grazing in a full replenished pasture. The river ran all red with blood : so that in the same chase were counted, as well by some of our men that somewhat diligently did mark it, as by some of them taken prisoners, that very much did lament it, to have been slain above thirteen thousand.
Trang 88 - After a youth, by woes o'ercast, After a thousand sorrows past, The lovely Mary once again Set foot upon her native plain ; Kneeled on the pier with modest grace, And turned to heaven her beauteous face.
Trang 24 - ... unchanged that which is nearest the surface must be the youngest. In a similar way geologists are able to make a rough calculation of the age of rocks ; for the same process can be seen going on at the present time and the rate of deposition estimated. Moreover, these secondary rocks often contain fossil remains of animals and plants which were living at the time when the rocks were being formed, and these fossils give indications of the conditions, climatic and other, then prevailing. Indeed...
Trang 120 - ... hitherto obtained. Among these is the unobtrusive little Church of Corstorphine, situated about three miles west of Edinburgh, in the lowest level of the valley lying between the Pentland and the Corstorphine Hills. It is a plain edifice, of mixed date, the period of the decorated gothic predominating. It is in the form of a cross, with an additional transept on one of the sides, but some irregularities in the height and character of the different parts make them seem as if they were irregularly...
Trang 202 - Penkuik (2736) — Celtic pen-y-cog," the hill of the cuckoo" — stands 600 feet above sea-level on the left bank of the North Esk ten miles south of Edinburgh. It is the terminus of a branch line of the North British Railway, and is also served by Pomathorn and Glencorse stations on other branches. It has a suburb, Kirkhill, with a population of 517. Penicuik depends chiefly on the paper-making industry though it has also an iron foundry. Many of the employees of neighbouring collieries reside...
Trang 133 - Nor wholly yet hath time defaced Thy lordly gallery fair : Nor yet the stony cord unbraced Whose twisted knots with roses laced Adorn thy ruined stair. Still rises unimpair'd below The court-yard's graceful portico ; Above its cornice row on row Of fair hewn facets richly show Their pointed diamond form, Though there but houseless cattle go To shield them from the storm.
Trang 1 - ... time to time as was found convenient. Thus in 1305 there were at least twentyfive, while at present there are thirty-three. Probably, the sheriffdom of Edinburgh originally extended over the whole of the Lothians ; later it was defined as " a district extending from Colbrandspath (now Cockburnspath) or Edgebucklin Brae on the east to the water of Avon on the west " ; by limitations made at various times it was reduced till it coincided with the county as now defined; and again, since 1870 the...