Produced by Julia Miller and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries.) WORKS BY DR. JOHN BROWN. Horae Subsecivae. Sixth Edition. 1 Volume, Extra Foolscap 8vo, Price 7s. 6d. Locke and Sydenham. New Edition. Extra Foolscap 8vo, Price 7s. 6d. Letter to the Rev. John Cairns, D.D. Second Edition. Crown 8vo, Sewed, Price 2s. Arthur H. Hallam; Extracted from 'Horae Subsecivae.' Foolscap, Sewed, Price 2s.; Cloth, Price 2s. 6d. Rab and his Friends; Extracted from 'Horae Subsecivae.' Forty-fifth Thousand. Foolscap, Sewed, Price 6d. Marjorie Fleming: A Sketch. Fifteenth Thousand. Foolscap, Sewed, Price 6d. Our Dogs; Extracted from 'Horae Subsecivae.' Nineteenth Thousand. Foolscap, Sewed, Price 6d. Rab and his Friends. With Illustrations by Sir GEORGE HARVEY, R.S.A., Sir J. NOEL PATON, R.S.A., and J. B. Cheap Edition. In One Volume, Cloth, Price 3s. 6d. 'With Brains, Sir;' Extracted from 'Horae Subsecivae.' Foolscap, Sewed, Price 6d. Minchmoor. Price 6d. Jeems the Door-keeper. A Lay Sermon. Price 6d. EDINBURGH: EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS. NOTES ON OLD EDINBURGH BY THE AUTHOR OF 'THE ENGLISHWOMAN IN AMERICA.' [Illustration: INSCRIPTION OVER DOORWAY IN BLACKFRIARS WYND. _English Visitor._--'So this is Blackfriars Wynd!' _Woman._--'No, it's hell's mouth.'] EDINBURGH EDMONSTON AND DOUGLAS 1869. PREFATORY NOTE BY THE REV. DR. HANNA. Was ever a more vivid picture of more revolting scenes offered to the reader's eye than that which the following pages present? If any doubt creep into his mind as to the accuracy of its details, he has but to read the reports of Dr. LITTLEJOHN and Dr. ALEXANDER WOOD, in which everything here stated, not vouched for by the writer herself, is authenticated. Can nothing be done, shall nothing be done, to wipe out such foul blots from the face of our fair city? One effort among others is being made in this direction by the Association recently organized for improving the condition of the poor. It is in the hope of winning for this Association the support of all the humane among us that these "Notes" are published. It would be a happy, and not surely hopeless issue, if, by the combined and concentrated endeavours of all interested in the welfare of the poor, such a change were effected that, fifty years hence, it were doubted or denied that ever such a state of things existed as is here so graphically portrayed. W. H. 6, CASTLE TERRACE, _Jan. 20, 1869_. NOTES ON OLD EDINBURGH. CHAPTER I.