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EDINBURGH.
and hall for public meetings are on George IV. Bridge. The
museum contains a number of models of agricultural imple¬
ments, and is open to the public free every day, from eleven
o’clock to three, except Monday. The society’s chambers are
in Albyn Place, where also is the secretary’s official residence.
NEW TOWN.
Moray Place, Ainslie Place, Great Stuart Street, and Randolph
Crescent, at the west end of Princes Street, are celebrated for
their architectural magnificence. They are built on the grounds
of Drumsheugh, the property of the Earl of Moray, in accordance
with a uniform plan designed by Mr. Gillespie Graham, archi¬
tect. They are inhabited by the wealthiest classes in Edinburgh.
The house, No. 24 Moray Place, was the residence of the late
Lord Jeffrey. The rent of the houses in Moray Place varies
from i!l50 to ,£200, and in the other streets mentioned, from
£130 to £150. The tourist, when here, should continue his
walk a little westwards by Randolph Crescent and Randolph
Cliff to the Dean Bridge, from which he may observe the
pleasant nature of the ground to the back of those streets
through which he has passed, and part of which descends pre¬
cipitously to the level of the Water of Leith, where the district
called Stockbridge has arisen. Stockbridge was one of those
villages which, like Broughton, Canonmills, Silvermills (Hender¬
son Row), etc., have gradually been absorbed by the extension of
the new town. It contains several elegantly built streets, such
as St. Bernard’s Crescent (built on the site of St. Bernards, the
villa of Sir Henry Raeburn, the celebrated portrait painter),
but from the locality being rather sunk, and too near the Water
of Leith, the property has very much depreciated. This con¬
dition, however, it has now some chance of improving by being
brought into contact with the new streets on the north side of
the Dean Bridge.
The Dean Bridge now forms part of the roadway extending
to the westward of the city, and is a favourite promenade. It
commands a fine view, among the more striking objects in
which are Donaldson’s Hospital to the south-west, the Water
of Leith below, Frith of Forth, etc., to the north. Trinity
Chapel, one of the Episcopal places of worship, stands at the