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EDINBURGH.
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The Church of Scotland Deaconess' (Lady Grisell Baillie
Memorial) Hospital, Pleasance, belongs to the Church of
Scotland and perpetuates the memory of the church's first
deaconess. It has been erected for the purpose of providing
practical training m sick-nursing for the deaconesses and
other mission workers of the church. The Hospital contains
28 beds. The total cost of the buildings, including the price
of the site and the furnishing and equipment, was ^3,766.
The Hoyal Edinburgh Hospi'al for Incurables (The Long-
more Hospital), Salisbury place, was founded in 1874 and
has since been incorporated by royal charter. A new wing
was added in 1893, and there is now accommodation for 150
patients.
MARKETS.
The Waverley Market, in Princes street, is the only market
in the city for the sale of fruit and vegetables. The market
days are Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Public meet-
ings, concerts &c. are held in this market. There is also a
market in Dublin street, for the convenience of those
vicinities, and likewise one for cattle contiguous to the Grass-
market. The Corn Exchange, in the Grassmarket, was
erected in 1849, from a design by Mr. Cousin. It has a
fa9ade in the Italian style, but chiefly consists of a structure
of iron and glass, 150 feet long and 98 feet broad.
PLACES OF AJNIDSEMENT AND RECREATION.
The Theatre Royal, in Broughton street and Leith walk,
occupies the site of the old Adelphi Theatre, burned down in
1853-
The Royal Lypeum Theatre is in Grindlay street, the
Operetta House in Chambers street, and the Empire Palace
in Nicolson street ; the Assembly Rooms are in George street,
and were erected in 1787 ; they form part of a plain building,
ornamented by a portico.
The Queen Street Hall, in Queen street, is appropriated
to balls and concerts. There are golf, curling, and skating
clubs.
The Queen's Park is an extensive area on the east of the
city and includes what was the park of Holyrood Palace,
embracing Salisbury crags, around which is the Queen's
drive, constructed in 1S44-47.
Bruntsfield Links are extensive open grounds situated on
the road to Morningside, to the south of the city, and is used
for the national game of golf. A Roman Catholic Nunnery,
the Convent of St. Margaret, was erected here in 1834. To
the east of this common are the Meadows, the property of
the city, and extending almost to Newington ; this tract of
level ground, adorned with trees, is about three-quarters of a
mile in length and a little less than a quarter of a mile in
breadth ; the Melville drive passes along the whole
length of the southern side.
Further south is the Blackford Park, established bj' the
Corporation in 1884, this, which formed part of the Burgh
moor, is a grassy upland, rising to a considerable height and
extending over 100 acres. The new Observatory has been
built here.
MONUMENTS.
The National monument of Scotland, the most striking
feature of Calton Hill, was commenced in 1822, to
commemorate our victories during the Peninsular war,
but abandoned for want of funds, after ;^i3,ooo had been
spent, resulting m a collection of twelve columns giving the
idea of a ruined temple. The monument to Lord Nelson,
also on the Calton Hill, comprises a circular tower, in
stages gradually diminishing, 100 feet high, its base being
356 feet above the level of the sea. Monuments to Pro-
fessor Flayfair and Professor Dugald Stewart are placed
close together on the Calton Hill. There is also, on the
southern side of the hill, near the High School, a monmnent
of Burns ; this and the one to Professor Stewart both take
the form of a Grecian circular temple : and in the Calton
burying ground, a little to the west, is a monument to
David Hume. The monument to Sir Walter Scott, in-
augurated in Aug. 1845, stands in Princes Street gardens,
and is a Gothic structure, rising to the height of 180 feet ;
the lower stage, raised on a graduated platform, is inclosed
by open arches, and has engaged pinnacles at the angles.
In the centre is a marble seated effigy of the great novelist,
with one of his favourite dogs at his feet, the work of
Steell. The design of the monmnent is by Mr. George
M. Kemp, who died during its erection, and in the niches j
are figures of some of the principal characters of Scott's ]
novels and poems. The equestrian statue of Charles II.
in Parliament square, was erected by the city in 1685. In
the centre of St. Andrew's square stands a column erected i
to the first Lord Melville (d. 29 Maj', 1811), the design of '
which was copied chiefly from Trajan's column at Rome ;
it was completed in August, 1822 ; the entire height of
the pedestal and pillar is 136 feet 4 inches, and the statue
on the top 14 feet additional. Opposite the Royal Bank
is a fine equestrian statue of the Earl of Hopetoun, and in
the same square, facing George street, a group represent-
ing Alexander and Bucephalus was erected in 1884. The
equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington (by Steell)
stands in front of the Register Office, Princes street. A
fine bronze statue (by Chantrej") of William Pitt stands at
the intersection of George street and Frederick street ;
another statue by the same artist, of George IV. with
royal robes and sceptre, stands at the point where George
street and Hanover street cross. At the intersection of
George street by Castle street a statue of the Rev. Dr.
Chalmers (by Steell) was erected in 1878. On the esplanade
of the castle there is a bronze statue of the Duke of York,
uncle of Her late Majesty Queen Victoria, and also a monu-
ment to ColonelMackenziec.B. who served for 42 years in the
92nd Highlanders, and died in 1878, and one in memory of
the officers and men of the 78th Regiment. A fine monu-
mental statue, erected to Robert, 2nd Viscount Melville,
stands in Melville street, in the western part of the New
Town. In Princes Street gardens are statues of Allan
Ramsay, the poet, of John Wilson, the author of " Noctes
Ambrosianae," Adam Black, the publisher. Dean Ramsay
and Dr. Livingstone, the great African traveller. At the
east end of St. Colme street is an elegant Eleanor cross
in memory of Miss Catherine Sinclair, the authoress.
The Martyrs' monument, in the old Calton burying ground,
is a tall obelisk, erected in 1845, to the memory of several
gentlemen who were banished in 1793 for advocating par-
liamentary reform. There is a monument to Alexander
Smith in Warriston cemetery. In Charlotte square, at
the end of George street, is the equestrian statue of H.R.H,
Prince Albert, inaugurated in August, 1876, on the occasion
of Her late Majesty's visit to Edinburgh; the figures, modelled
b}* Sir John Steell r.s.a. are 15 feet high, weighing eight
tons, and stand on a granite pedestal 100 tons in weight :
the total cost was about ;^i6,500. In West Parliament
square is a monument to the late Duke of Buccleuch,
which consists of a bronze figure in the robes of the
Garter, by the late Sir J. E. Boehm bart. r.a. raised on a
pedestal, designed by Rowland Anderson ll.d. and cost
about ;£8,ooo.
ANTIQUITIES.
HoljTood Palace. — This historical building stands at the
eastern end of the Canongate on the low ground which lies
to the north-east of Sahsbury Crags, and occupies, with the
ruins of the Chapel Royal, the site of the Old Abbey of the
Holy Rood and the palace erected by James V. ; the present
building being mostly erected by Charles II. in 1671. The
principal front looks to the west and owing to the old north-
western tower and the one at the south-west angle built to
imitate it (both of which project forward like wings) it has
a somewhat baronial appearance marred by the two-storied
screen which unites the two towers and is of a French style,
as is also the rest of the palace, consisting of a quadrangle
94 feet square, with the two-storied screen on the west and
a three-storied building of ashlar with pilasters of three
orders forming the other three sides, the lower story having
a colonnade of nine arches on each face. The north side of
the quadrangle on the first floor is occupied by the picture
gallery, 150 feet long, and to the north of the picture gallery
are Lord Darnley's apartments and east of these lie the ruins
of the fine Early English chapel of the ancient Abbey, now
known as the Chapel Royal. In the picture gallery, a long
apartment with a rather low roof, are htmg pictures stated
to be portraits of the kings of Scotland, from Fergus I. down-
wards, but they are worthless as works of art, and equally
so as portraits, having been all painted in 1684-6 by James
de Witt, a Dutch painter, who received ^240 for the whole.
In this picture gallery the peers of Scotland meet to elect
their representatives for the House of Lords, and here her
Majesty's Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly
of the Church of Scotland holds his levees and receptions.
The State apartments occupied the southern portion of the
quadrangle. There are some gardens at the back of the
palace and a statue of H.M. Queen Victoria and a restored
copy of the great fountain of Linhthgow ornament the fore-
court.
In May, 1537, James V. brought his French bride, Magda-
lene, daughter of Francis I. to the palace. In 1561, Queen
Mary came home to Holj'rood palace, a widow of 18, her
natural brother, James Murray, being commendator of Holy-
rood, and on 29 July, 1565, she was married in " The Chapel
Royal " to Lord Darnley, son of the Earl of Lennox and her
own cousin-german ; then followed the murder of Rizzio, the
death of Darnley by violence at Kirk-o'-field and the