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giftrates, and certain trull carry on the im- 



. 



,ady been , that the old town 



is built | :ig a 1 mo ft due 



- a vail' runt parallel 



North Loch J 



, whofc 



rowd- 



The reader rruy therefore concciv towns, 



The north, or 



idle or old town ; and a con fu fed 

 medley of aniient odcrn buildings, on the 



fout 



To connect thcfe d< parts, and to open fafe 



and Ihort communications from one to the other, 

 bee f pofitivc n 



In 1763, 



jrgc Drummond Efq. then Lord Proved of Edin- 

 burgh, and an ornament of human i i lid the 

 foundation (tone of a bridge, to be built acrois 

 the North Loch, thereby to join the old and the 

 .v town. The length of th: 15 feet * 

 the height of the three principal arches from the 

 ba top of the j S feet ; the breadth 

 40 feet. I'iie whole expcnce of this great work did 

 not exceed 20,000! . being nearly double the fum for 

 which the :t impr engaged to co 



of the bridge was immediately pcr- 

 cr. .ry to join 



the old town with the buildings on the ibuth iide ot 

 the Cowgate, and .1 cLiulr is mlerted for th 

 pofe in thr ted; b. .c of which, 



the I^rd Provoft laid the foundadoa (lone of the 

 Joutb bridge, on the firil of Auguit 1785 ; which 

 bridge is to be built in a ftraight line from the north 

 > acrofs the Cowgate ; and from thence foudi- 



ward, 



