NEW BUILDINGS, MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, Antiquities & Picturesque Scenery,, SCOTTISH METROPOLIS & IT'S ENVIRONS, FROM ORIGINAL DRAWINGS, BY WITH HISTORICAL TOPOGRAPHICAL & CRITICAL ILLUSTRATIONS MẸ THIOS I. SHEPHERD ) Drawn by Tho, Shen eved by W Wallis, MODERN ATHENS! DISPLAYED IN A SERIES OF VIEWS: OR EDINBURGH IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: EXHIBITING THE WHOLE OF THE NEW UILDINGS, MODERN IMPROVEMENTS, ANTIQUITIES, AND PICTURESQUE SCENERY, PUBLISHED BY JONES & Co. TEMPLE OF THE MUSES, FINSBURY SQUARE. PREFACE. THE great cities of an empire are, at least equally with its great men, a species of public property. In the history of both, that of their country is involved; the events that mark the annals of both are the epochs of the national annals; nor can the character of the one, or the topography of the other, be delineated, but in connexion with the most important national institutions and affairs. The Metropolis of Scotland is inferior to none of the cities of Europe in associations of this kind:--which, let the ample use of them by the magic pen of the Author of Waverley, testify. She has still her royal Holyrood; her temples of religion, of benevolence, and of science, forming a sort of panoramic history of all the civil and ecclesiastical changes through which the country has passed:-of her kingly races; her martyrs and reformers; her princely merchants; and her noble triumphs as a school of literature and medicine. |