Descriptive account of the principal towns in Scotland

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resort for summer fashionables, as well as for the
valetudinarian. It has accordingly been much fre-
quented for sea-bathing ; and, of late years, the de-
mand for Lodgings, which are well suited for the ac-
commodation of Bathers of all ranks, has been on the
increase.
What may be called the old part of Portobello,
contains many handsome houses, with neat plots
of shrulrry in front, and garden ground in the rear
of each tenement. The houses range along the Mus-
selburgh road, from which there are three principal
streets, besides others not yet completed, extending
to the sea-shore. The streets lately formed, running
south and west, present many spacious buildings, not
much inferior in elegance to any in the Metropolis, to
which, by a new line of road, they are intended to ap-
proach. Another line of road is also projected, to
intersect the one now mentioned, on the west of the
village, which, when finished, will open up a direct
communication with the great South Road, of consi-
derable importance to this neighbourhood.
The building for Hot and Cold Baths is very com-
modious, and well adapted for the purpose to which
it is appropriated. A neat Chapel belonging to the
Established Church, was erected in 1810; and recent-
ly, there have been added, two Episcopal Chapels,
: nd a Chapel in connexion with the United^ssociate
8ynod, all lundsome edifices.
Exclusively of the Brick and Tyle works already
noticed, there are manufactories for Earthen-ware,
various \ reparations of Lead, Blacking, Varnishes,