Dark Edinburgh on Nostr: "From Holyrood house there begins the narrow point, or, if we may be allowed the ...

"From Holyrood house there begins the narrow point, or, if we may be allowed the expression, the tail of a hill, which gradually, extending itself in breadth, rises in a steep and straight ridge, from which its shelving sides decline ; the ridge terminating in an abrupt precipice, the site of the castle, at the distance of a mile in length, and one hundred and eighty feet in height from Holyrood house."
- The History of Edinburgh, Hugo Arnot 1779