leads to the foot-path which winds round the Calton Hill. In traversing this, the spectator views in succession, the endless range of streets which compose the New Town, bounded by the Corstorphine Hills;—the Firth of Forth, with the distant mountains ;— the Town and Harbour of Leith;-Musselburgh Bay, terminated by North Berwick Law ;-Arthur's Seat, and Salisbury Craigs, with Holy-Rood House in the plain beneath;— and lastly, the darkened and irregular masses of the Old Town, skirted and guarded on one side by the ancient Citadel.

The houses of Waterloo Place are built upon several small arches, and one of larger dimensions, which bear the name of the Regent Bridge. This crosses the low Calton, and connects the Hill with the ridge upon which the New Town is chiefly built. The Act of Parliament authorizing the erection of this bridge, and the formation of the road from Princes Street to the Calton, which may be deemed one of the most important of the recent improvements of Edinburgh, was passed in 1814. We shall have occasion to notice, and give some account of, this structure in a subsequent page, in referring to a View of it. At the point of junction between Princes Street and Waterloo Place, is the Register Office, which was built to preserve the Records of Scotland. Previous to its erection, these national archives were in a state of disorder and decay; but are now arranged, and carefully guarded from further injury. A small portion of this building is seen to the left of the annexed Print. On the north side of the street is the Waterloo Hotel, the largest and most splendid establishment of the kind in Edinburgh: amongst other apartments, is a coffee-room 80 feet by 40; and a dining-room of equal dimensions. The expense of its erection was about £30,000. More to the east, on the same side, is the Hall for the public meetings of the Incorporations of the Calton; opposite to which, are the New Prison and the Calton Burying-ground. Near the latter, stands the General Post Office, surmounted by the royal arms: and more to the west, the Stamp Office. The Theatre Royal, partially represented in the accompanying Engraving, is marked by its portico, and by statues of Shakespeare, and the Muses of Tragedy and Comedy, placed as acroters to the roof-pediment, and its lateral copings. Situated in such a respectable street, and in connexion, as it is, with several handsome public buildings, this theatre makes a very poor and mean appearance externally, although the interior is fitted up with some degree of attention to richness of effect.

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THE JAIL-GOVERNOR'S HOUSE.

This View is intended to exhibit the peculiarities of that portion of the Old Town of Edinburgh, lying between the Calton Hill and the North Bridge. In the distance, to the left, is seen the outline of part of the Castle, and the rock on which it stands: whilst the central division of the Print is occupied by the Bridge, and the houses forming a line of communication with Princes-street. Among the group of old houses, on the east side of the former, is a mean-looking place of worship, called Lady Glenorchy's Chapel, and an edifice now termed the College Kirk, but which was originally a collegiate church, dedicated to the Holy Trinity, and founded, in 1452, by Mary of Gueldres, consort of King James the Second. More to the right, is the spire, and part of the roof, of the Orphan Hospital, noticed by that eminent and amiable philanthropist, Howard, as one of the most useful charities in Europe. These buildings will be hereafter separately described. The principal and most interesting object represented in the Engraving, is a castellated edifice, called "The Jail-Governor's House," overhanging one of the precipitous sides of the Calton Hill, and overlooking the various departments of the New Prison. This building was founded, together with the Jail, in 1815, from the designs, and under the superintendence, of Mr. Elliot, the architect, who has carried into execution many of the modern improvements of Edinburgh. Romantically seated on the ledge of a rocky hill, its embattled turrets, parapets, and other architectural features, present an appearance at once imposing and picturesque.

It contains apartments for the governor, or captain of the jail, as here termed, and a Committee-room for the use of the Commissioners, in whom the government of the prison is vested. It has been objected by some persons, that this structure abounds too much in the caprices of the Gothic style of architecture. "But, surely," observes Sir Walter Scott, in the "Provincial Antiquities of Scotland," vol. i. p. 84, "if the Gothic style can be any where adopted with propriety, the jail of a metropolis, built on the very verge of a precipice, and overhanging the buildings beneath like an ancient citadel, is the most appropriate subject for the purpose."

THE STONE QUARRIES, CRAIGLEITH.

Edinburgh, like Bath and some few other cities, is advantageously situated in regard to building materials. London has no quarries in its neighbourhood, and cannot, therefore, command a supply of stone for the erection of its houses; but as the substratum consists of fine clay, the inhabitants, from an early time to the present, have manufactured it into bricks for building; and have thus converted the soil beneath their feet, to substantial and even handsome edifices over their heads, for the use and luxuries of civilized society. The excavations represented in the annexed print, situated at the dis