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upplement TO THE

ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA.

E D I Edinburgh. tT' DINBURGH. In theEncyclopadiawiM be found for whose convenience it has been tastefully laid Edinburgh, Hi a full account of this City, till the year 1812; out in walks, ornamented with trees; forming and we shall now give a short view of its improve- garden view extremely pleasant to the eye from ments and increase since that period. its verdure and beauty. Fronting this space, a Ever since the year 1769, when the building of very elegant street and crescent have been already the New Town commenced, the improvement of E- built, together with several parallel and retiring dinburgh has been prosecuted with extraordinary streets; and this part of the town continues razeal, both by the magistrates and by the inhabit- pidly to increase. The ground, which, within these ants ; and, ot late years more especially, the exer- four last years, consisted of green fields, is now cotions of all ranks have been directed to this object. vered with elegant and spacious streets; other streets In consequence of this general and laudable spirit, are in progress ; and new and important additions are the city ot Edinburgh has not only been extended on in contemplation, by which some of them will be all sides, but has been improved by the addition of prolonged eastward as far as Leith Walk. some splendid public edifices; while the access to ew inconvenience ot the access to RiainDurgn-l/om it from every quarter has been greatly facilitated by ine the the great London road was long a subject of ge-^ and embellished. aSt neral regret. In entering the city from this quarter, ’ New Streets. In addition to the original streets of the New the road lay through narrow and inconvenient streets, Town, namely, Prince’s Street, George’s Street, and forming an approach no way suited to the general eleQueen s Street, with their respective cross streets, of the place. In the year 1814, active meaand set ei al other intermediate ones of inferior note, gance were at length adopted to remedy this defect. an important extension has been projected, and is now sures For this purpose, it was proposed to form a magin part executing, on the inclined plane towards the nificent entrance across the Cal ton Hill, and this north. Ihe plan ol these additional streets is nearly plan is now nearly completed. A spacious road, similar to that of the original part of the New Town paved at an immense expence, has been carried quite consisting chiefly of parallel rows of building, into across the hill;—in one part, a passage has been cut which the improvement of incurved streets is taste- through the solid rock, and an immense mass of lull}'' introduced. Part of an interval of unoccupied ground has been levelled, so as to facilitate the ground between the old and these new streets, former- ascent. Between the Calton Hill and Prince's ly private property, has been purchased, and is now Street, a deep ravine intervened, which was formeropen to the inhabitants of this quarter of the town, ly occupied with old and ill.built streets. In or-. VOL. IV, PART t. A