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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: of water, a narrow footpath leads along a gradually ascending terrace around the margin of a green hollow basin on the left, till the southern brow of Arthur's Seat is gained. A quick turn to the right, and a still slighter ascent of a few paces, brings the traveller to the summit of the mountain. Here a most extensive and splendid view is obtained. Below lies the city fully displayed to view, but all its animated bustle softened down or almost lost by distance. On the left the grey turrets of the Old Town rise dimly amid wreaths of smoke, on the right the gayer mansions of the New, glitter in the sunbeams. The smooth Firth stretches away to the north, with the shores of Fife, and the East and West Lomonds in the distance, while midway stands the Island of Inchkeith, a blue speck amid the shining waters. To the westward of the city is seen the wooded hill of Corstorphin, and beyond this ranges a fertile and undulating country along the banks of the Forth to Queensferry, and hence upwards to Stirling. On the opposite side of the Firth are the Ochils, the commencement of that great chain of the Grampian Mountains, which stretches to the extreme east point of Scotland, while still farther in the distance are seen the blue tops of Benlomond and Benledi. Turning to the south, and stretching beyond that portion of the suburbs called Newington, are seen Blackford and Braid Hills, with the long range of the Pentlands. South-east lies the valley of Mid-Lothian, bounded in the distance by the Lammermoor range of mountains, and eastward the conical hill of North Berwick Law and the Bass Rock and Isle of May, shining like white specks in the distant ocean. Descending by the south-east brow of Arthur's Seat, we come to Duddingston Loch, a picturesque sheet of water. The grounds and mansion ...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217139373
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 58
  • Spine Width: 3 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 021713937X
  • Publisher Date: 08 Feb 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 122 gr


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