NEIGHBOURHOOD OF EDINBURGH, 



|)Y cheerful home, from 1808 to 1819, was 

 at the bottom of a sweet hawthorn lane, 

 leading from Leith Walk to the Quarry 

 Holes, now quite changed from its once bridle lane 

 appearance by walls of stone and lime. It was 

 generally called Lovers' Lane, for its beauty and 

 its solitude. It was quite destroyed when a 

 quarry of whinstone, to pave the road between 

 Leith and Edinburgh, for the first time was 

 opened near to the top of it. 'Twas here that I 

 first took up the rod and bent my way over to 

 the loch, which I could trace from my bed-room 

 window, and at that time full of good large 

 perch. Sometimes, very early in the fine morn- 

 ings of May and June, I would scramble over 



