Excerpt from Guide to Roslin and Suburban Beauties of Edinburgh In the morningside station there is helpful provision for visiting scenes of classic beauty, once sung by Sir Walter Scott. The road to the left leads to_ the Blackford and Braid Hills. It 'i Med for its association with the marshalling of James Iv.'s army on the Boroughmuir, previous to the battle of Flodden. To the right, striking oil from Morningside Road, is the edinburgh royal asylum for the insane, a monument of honeficence and advanced medical science. Southward, on craiglockhart hill, the city poorhouse, a Well-appointed parochial institution, and, further west, craiglockhart hydro pathic, occupy interesting and healthy sites. Morningside, as a suburban district, is admirably built and laid out, well' protected from the prevailing east Winds, and highly commended for those nfl'ering from chest affections. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.