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Excerpt from Out of Harness: Sketches, Narrative and Descriptive
Dinburgh, with the exception, perhaps, of some parts of Paris, 15 more full than any other town of interesting relics. Modern improve ments easily clear away the brick walls that accommodate single families 3 but massive piles of stone are not so easily removed. Rising six, ten, even twelve and fifteen storeys high, yielding large rents, and swarming with tenants, they long''pfy old time and modem taste. Built to last, if let alone, till the knell of doom, these old houses of Edin burgh have, with few exceptions, yielded to no element but fire - and a mighty blaze they make Such acci dents, however, being of rare occurrence, that long, lofty, rock-lookin g ridge, which heaves its back up from the Castle down to Holyrood, has much the same aspect that it had three hundred years ago. Since then the actors are gone, but the stage remains, so little changed.
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Dinburgh, with the exception, perhaps, of some parts of Paris, 15 more full than any other town of interesting relics. Modern improve ments easily clear away the brick walls that accommodate single families 3 but massive piles of stone are not so easily removed. Rising six, ten, even twelve and fifteen storeys high, yielding large rents, and swarming with tenants, they long''pfy old time and modem taste. Built to last, if let alone, till the knell of doom, these old houses of Edin burgh have, with few exceptions, yielded to no element but fire - and a mighty blaze they make Such acci dents, however, being of rare occurrence, that long, lofty, rock-lookin g ridge, which heaves its back up from the Castle down to Holyrood, has much the same aspect that it had three hundred years ago. Since then the actors are gone, but the stage remains, so little changed.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Language - English
Hardback
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Author
Thomas Guthrie
Published Date -
ISBN - 9780666005496
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Page Count - 396
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Author
Thomas Guthrie
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ISBN - 9781331637417
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm
Page Count - 398
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