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said bridge and inspect the same, and the Lords of the Secret 

 Council were thereby empowered to grant a reasonable stent 

 and taxation upon such parts of the county as they should 

 think most expedient for the support of the said decayed 

 bridge, and to impose tolls upon certain commodities passing 

 it. This statute, however, would appear to have been of no 

 effect, as another Act of the same import was passed in 1607. 

 There is no other bridge over the Amon in this parish except 

 that built by the Hon. Charles Hope Veir of Craigiehall. 

 There are now the new bridge at Cramond Bridge and the 

 railway bridge near Craigiehall. The public road from Edin- 

 burgh to Queensferry crosses the Amon at Cramond Bridge, on 

 the west side of which was a toll bar, let in 1789 for £142, 

 but in 1790 the rent fell to £130. 



Cramond Tower. — This tower is all that now remains of the 

 palace of the bishops of Dunkeld, who possessed the lands 

 known as " Bishops Karramond " as early as the twelfth cen- 

 tury. It was only at the beginning of the fifteenth century 

 that the then bishop exchanged the lands of Cammo for the 

 lands of Cramond, and the tower is situated within the church 

 town of Cramond, and this is supposed to be part of the tower 

 referred to. It is a small structure 24 feet square, and, as it 

 at present exists, about 40 feet high. 



In front of Cramond House stands a spheri-angular sundial 

 made in 1732. At Barn ton are two sundials; one of them, 

 an obelisk dial, which is dated 1692, stands twelve feet in 

 height. 



In Stark's ' Picture of Edinburgh ' it is recorded that " a 

 specimen of the rare opah had been taken near Cramond and 

 preserved in the museum of Sir Patrick Walker. The short 

 diodon or sun fish has also been caught at Cramond and pre- 

 served by the same gentleman. The sturgeon frequently 

 enters the mouth of the Almond and is sometimes killed." 

 The sturgeon is occasionally caught in the salmon nets west 

 from Barnbougle Castle. A cinerary urn was found in De- 

 cember 1889 near Cramond. A fully illustrated account is 

 given in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of 

 Scotland, 1896-97, p. 244. 



