578 SHORT TOUR OF SCOTLAND. 



ur, bay and canal j we do not find that the Bri- 

 mcnt 1-. i ileil m- 



: dief, the ornament, or ; 

 of the hiiherto decayed metropolis o 



uo hope, that any aflllLince whatever 

 will be : beyond the trifle allov. ,1 the 



r es, for i ing the re. 



'I he inhabit ;;iburgh, to the high taxes 



already impofed by < and the corporation, 



irmft take uj>on then nee of thefe im- 



provements alfo ; and that not with a fparing hand, 

 but to the utmoft of their abilities. 1 n lightened 

 and animated by two patriotic m, s of tail 



judgment, they are to confuier themfelves as the 

 founders of a great and fplrndid city, which, from 

 the advantages of nature, and a due regard to the 

 embellifhments of art, may ecliple in beauty, any city 

 in Europe, thofe of Italy excepted. Iiueiled with 

 almoit unlimited powers by government, it is now 

 optional in themfelves whether to raife a mals of 



.nity, or draw thither a refort of 



influx o( iroiuy by tlie elegance and fymmetry of 



.ite buildings ; the magnificence of the 



public ftiuclnresi the O] and regularity of the 



s, and other objects which will occafionally pie- 



fent theipfel' . 



A third improvement of very eflential confequence 



to tli is to have efcapcd the notice of the 



It hath been already obferved, that the 



rock on which the calile is built, bounds the city on 



. The new town, when co 



, will extend fome hundred feet beyond the 



caftle. A road hath lately been opened in a line from 



this point of the new town, on the north, to the new 



buildings on the fouth. The intermediate ground 



en this road and the caflle, confifts of doping 



, v.i ic h extend directly to the bafe of the rock. 



The fields thus fituated in the centre b both 



4 tow lu. 



