Dark Edinburgh on Nostr: "He who now sees the wide hollow space between Old and New Towns, occupied by ...
"He who now sees the wide hollow space between Old and New Towns, occupied by beautiful gardens, having their continuity broken up by a transverse earthen mound and a line of railway, must be at a loss to realise the idea of the same space presenting in former times a lake, which was regarded as a portion of the physical defences of the city."
- Traditions of Edinburgh, R. Chambers (1868)
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