given farther on. Next, cutting off the view to the west, rises the celebrated CASTLE. To the right the eye rests upon Princes Street and Gardens, with the Scott Monument, and a little beyond the classic buildings of the Royal Institution, and, in its rear, the National Gallery. Directly west of the spectator are the regular streets and fine buildings of the New Town. At the west, on clear days, Ben Lomond and Ben Ledi are visible. Towards the north-west the Frith of Forth is seen, and the city of Leith; beyond, the sea, with several islands. At the east, beyond Arthur's Seat, are the wateringplaces of Portobello and Musselburgh, suburbs of Edinburgh.

Descending from Calton Hill, and going again towards Princes Street, we pass, on the right, the Old Register House, where are kept the public records of the kingdom, in front of which is an equestrian statue of Wellington; opposite is the General Post Office. We now reach PRINCES STREET, the principal street and fashionable promenade of the city. It is 100 ft. wide and more than a mile in length. The beautiful pleasure grounds extend the whole length on the south side, while on the other side the street is lined with handsome hotels and shops. At the left on entering the street is the extensive Waverley Market, for fruit and flowers. It contains a small Aquarium. The roof of the market is nearly on a level with Princes Street, and has been laid out as a promenade. Behind the market is the extensive Waverley Station of the North British Railway. A little way beyond the market is the bronze statue of Dr Livingstone. THE SCOTT MONUMENT, which is now reached, is an elegant structure erected in 1840-44, at the cost of

more than £15,000. It is in the form of an open crucial Gothic spire, supported on four early English arches, which serve as a canopy to the statue, and is about 200 feet high. A staircase in the interior of one of the columns leads to a series of galleries to which visitors are admitted on payment of twopence. Under the central basement arch is a marble statue by Steel of Sir Walter Scott, with a figure of his favourite dog, Maida, at his feet; it was inaugurated in 1846, and cost £2000. In the niches above the several arches are figures of some of the leading characters in his works,-Meg Merrilees, George Heriot, the Lady of the Lake, the Last Minstrel, and many others. The architect was a self-taught genius named Kemp, the son of a shepherd. He was accidentally drowned in the Union Canal before the work was completed. The gardens in which this monument stands are called the East Princes Street Gardens. The lowlying portion, through which the railway now passes, used to be covered with water called Nor' Loch. Professor Wilson's Statue and that of Adam Black are a little to the west of the Scott Monument. We now reach the Royal Institution. This structure cost £40,000. It was designed by the late W. H. Playfair, and is in the Doric style. Colonnades extend along its sides, columned porticoes adorn its north and south ends, and sphinxes surmount its angles. Over the principal entrance is a colossal sitting statue of Queen Victoria. In the interior are the Gallery of Sculpture and the Antiquarian Museum.

The Sculpture Gallery, open on Wednesdays and Fridays 12 to 4 at 6d. and on Saturdays 10 to 4 free, contains casts of the Elgin

marbles, of the celebrated statues of antiquity, of the Ghiberti gates of Florence, and a valuable series of casts of antique Greek and Roman busts, a collection origin. ally made at Rome by the Alborini family.

The Antiquarian Museum is open on Thursdays and Fridays from 10 to 4, when a charge of 6d. is made for admission-on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays, visitors are admitted free. Among the contents of the Museum may be noticed a collection of Egyptian antiquities; sculptures, terra-cottas, etc., from various countries; ancient British implements; specimens of RomanoBritish pottery and glass manufacture; old Scotch wood-carvings; various instruments of torture and punishments used in Scotland; the Maiden, or Scottish guillotine, by which the Regent Murray was beheaded in 1581, Sir John Gordon of Haddo in 1644, President Spottiswoode in 1645, the Marquis of Argyll in 1661, and the Earl of Argyll in 1685; the Repentance Stool from Old Greyfriars Church; John Knox's Pulpit; the stool which the celebrated Jenny Geddes hurled at the head of the Dean of St Giles' when he essayed to read the Liturgy; a banner of the Covenant used at the battle of Bothwell Brig in 1679; copies of the National Covenant, with the signatures of Montrose, Archbishop Leighton, and other Scottish nobles of the period; autographs of Queen Mary, her son James VI., Charles I., Cromwell, etc. The National Gallery of painting is open on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Saturdays from 10 till 5, and on Saturday evenings from 7 till 9, free-Thursdays and Fridays from 10 till 4, 6d. Catalogues 6d. This building occupies a site in the rear of the Royal

Institution, and was also designed by Playfair.

The collection includes some fine specimens of the ancient masters

Vandyke, Titian, Tintoretto, Velasquez, Paul Veronese, Spagnoletto, Rembrandt, and others. Also a very fine series of portraits by Sir Thomas Lawrence, Sir John Watson Gordon, and Mr Graham Gilbert. One of the rooms is set apart for works of modern artists, and here are *Sir Noel Paton's beautiful pictures of Oberon and Titania; others by Erskine Nicol, Drummond, Douglas, Faed, Herdman, and the late Sir George Harvey, John Phillip, Horatio M'Culloch, Lauder, W. B. Johnston, Dyce, Etty, and Roberts. Several very fine paintings have been bequeathed to the institution privately, among which are the celebrated portrait of Mrs Graham by Gainsborough, some beautiful works of Jean Baptiste Greuze, two specimens of the late William Dyce; portrait of a lady, and boys playing at a bull-fight, by the late John Phillip, R.A.; view of Aberlady Bay, by Thompson, of Duddingston; Wilkie's John Knox dispensing the Sacramentat Calder House(unfinished); and Landseer's "Rent Day in the Wilderness." Of Burns there is a small picture painted by Alexander Nasmyth, and another portrait by the same artist bequeathed to the Gallery by the poet's son.

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The collection of water-colours (in the first room) embraces the works by "Grecian" Williams; a series of drawings bequeathed to the gallery, including specimens of Girtin, Cox, Collins, Cattermole, Roberts, Nash, Prout, and Cristall; and a set of small studies by Mr J. F. Lewis, R.A., illustrative of the more striking peculiarities of the Venetian, Spanish, Dutch, and Flemish schools. Among the sculptures the