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the Queen being that day expected to arrive at Holy- 

 rood, when the volunteers review was to take place on 

 the morrow, we were not admitted to visit the interior 

 of this historic pile ; our obliging friend, Mr. Scott, 

 pointed out to us in front of the palace a fully carved 

 fountain, a restoration of a like structure at Linlithgow 

 Palace, and presenting effigies of historical personages 

 from early times. The handsome railing extending on 

 both sides were erected round the Palace on the visit 

 of George IV, in 1822. 



In the interior our friend described the historic rooms 

 of the Palace. " They are to the left, and consist of 

 the Picture Gallery or Throne Room, with portraits of 

 Scottish kings, historic and legendary, from 330 B. C. ; 

 of Queen Mary's Bed-Room, Supper Room, Private 

 Room, Lord Darnley's Room, &c. " The rooms and 

 stair-cases are highly interesting, but the furniture 

 shown is of very doubtful authenticity. The Abbey is 

 only now represented by the ruined nave, some parts of 

 which, notably the western doorway and tower, and the 

 intertwined arcade on the north wall, are of considerable 

 interest architecturally. The contents of the rooms 

 and Abbey are numbered and catalogued." We wan- 

 dered around the Queen's Drive, seeing thus the greatest 

 extent of the Royal Park. By walking over the 

 Radical Road, whence a singularly interesting view of 

 the city is obtained, and thence clambering up one or 

 other of the well-marked footpaths to the summit of 

 Arthur Seat, 822 feet above the level of the sea, a great 

 enjoyment is in store. On completing the circuit of 

 the hill, and reaching again the level of Holyrood, the 

 site of Muschat's Cairn, famous in the Heart of Midlo- 

 thian — was seen. On the spur of rock overhanging 

 St. Margaret's Loch, St Anthony's Well, a perennial 

 spring issues from below a large stone, and St. Mar- 

 garet's Well, in the hillside. The Scott monument on 

 Princes street — the most superb thoroughfare in the 

 city — is an open Gothic canopy or Eleonor Cross. Many 



