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of modern taste and utilitarianism. Edinburgh will be 

 Anglicised and put in the fashionable costume of a pro- 

 gressive age ; in the same swallow-tailed coat, figured 

 vest and stove-pipe hat worn by London, Liverpool and 

 Manchester. It will not be allowed to wear tweed 

 pantaloons except for one circumstance ; that it is 

 now building its best houses of stone instead of brick. 



But there are physical features that will always dis- 

 tinguish Edinburgh from all other cities of the world 

 and which no architectural changes can ever obliterate 

 or deface. There are Arthur's Seat, Salisbury Crags, 

 the Calton Hill, and the Castle Height, and there they 

 will stand forever the grandest surroundings and gar- 

 niture of Nature ever given to any capital or centre 

 of the earth's populations. 



