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Title: The Boston Cooking School magazine of culinary science and domestic economics
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Hill, Janet McKenzie, 1852-1933, ed Boston Cooking School (Boston, Mass.)
Subjects: Home economics Cooking
Publisher: Boston : Boston Cooking-School Magazine
Contributing Library: Boston Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Public Library

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Edinburgh from Calton Hill From Edinburgh to London By Mary H. Northend THE view of Edinburgh fromCalton Hill is always a favoritewith the tourist, who visits forthe first time the Athens of theNorth. It is even more well belovedby him who revisits Dunedin, theMaiden Town, as the Scottish Bardsloved to call their capital. Here is familiar, classic ground.Directly in front, in the middle dis-tance, looms Castle Rock, rising boldlyand abruptly from the town, and over-looking both the sea and the neigh-boring mountains. This is the oldestpart of the city, fortified long beforeauthentic history began. The most 115 116 THE BOSTON COOKING-SCHOOL MAGAZINE
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Monument to Sir Walter Scott interesting room in the castle is theapartment known as the CrownRoom, where the visitor may see thediscarded relics of Scotlands sover-eignty,— the splendid crown jewels,the scepter, the sword of state, thecrown of Scotland once worn byRobert Bruce. There is somethingprofoundly pathetic in these memorialsof Scottish royalty; the feeling is notlessened by remembering the fact thatScotland has never been conqueredwithin the memory of man. Herunion with England is simplyeconomic proposition. To the right of the picture, an the stately Gothic spire belongs to themonument erected in honor of SirWalter Scott. It is more than twohundred feet high, and is composed ofred sandstone. In its principal nichesstand figures which represent well-known characters in Scotts writings;while in the center, under a canopy,is a marble statue of Sir Walter him- self, with his favorite dog crouched byhis side. The city of Edinburgh consists oftwo towns, the Old and the New, pre

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