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heads, and offered their silent tribute of homage. Never 

 before was such a tribute of respect and love offered at the 

 grave of any of our citizens." J On through Princes Street 

 it came, every balcony and window filled with gazers, till at 

 the Royal Institution, Mound, the climax was reached, by 

 the public bodies there awaiting its arrival joining in, and 

 the crowd upwards to George Street forming one dense 

 mass of onlookers. The arrangement then made was that 

 first in order were the members of Dr. Alexander's congre- 

 gation ; after them the University students, those of the 

 Technological class keeping together ; the Pharmaceutical 

 Society ; the Royal Scottish Society of Arts ; the Chamber 

 of Commerce ; the Philosophical Institution ; the Merchant 

 Company ; the Senatus Academicus in their gowns ; the 

 Lord Provost and Magistrates in their scarlet robes ; then 

 came the hearse, and following it his empty carriage, 

 familiar to Edinburgh eyes, and associated with pleasant 

 thoughts now turned to sadness. Private carriages and the 

 general public brought up the rear, the whole number being 

 not fewer than a thousand. 



While all move slowly on, four abreast, through the 

 picturesque portion of Princes Street yet to be traversed ; 

 and while the crowd thickens on every point of eminence, 

 let us proceed to the Old Calton burial-ground and await 

 its arrival. What is now a level road, Waterloo Place, once 

 looked down on a valley, with a cemetery and the Calton 

 Hill beyond it. In 1815 a bridge was made to span the 

 gulf, while the road was carried (painful necessity) through 

 the cemetery, of which a portion now lies on each side of 

 the road. That to the right side is the larger and more 

 interesting ; and it is with it we have to do. 



i "Funeral Sermon," by Dr. Alexander, p. 25. A. and C. Black. 



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