# Edinburgh sketches & memories

Author: Masson, David, 1822-1907

Genre: Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/71958

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Edinburgh+sketches+%26+memories+Masson&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On a clear day the inhabitants of Edinburgh, by merely ascending the Calton Hill or any other of the familiar heights in or around their city, can have a view of nearly the whole length of their noble estuary, the Firth of Forth. To the right or east, its entrance from the open sea, between the two shires of Fife and Haddington, is marked most conspicuously on the Haddingtonshire side by a distant conical mound, called Berwick Law, rising with peculiar distinctness from the northward curve of land which there bounds the horizon. It is thither that the eye is directed if it would watch the first appearance of steamers and ships from any part of the world that may be bound up the Firth for...

## Chapters

- [Part III.—1822–1828 302](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/edinburgh-sketches-and-memories-71958/chapters/1/index.md)
- [PART III.—1822–1828](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/edinburgh-sketches-and-memories-71958/chapters/4/index.md)
- [PART II.—1818–1822](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/edinburgh-sketches-and-memories-71958/chapters/3/index.md)
- [PART I.—1809–1818](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/edinburgh-sketches-and-memories-71958/chapters/2/index.md)