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THE CALTON HILL.
The east of new Edinburgh is guarded by a craggy hill, of no great elevation, which the town embraces.

The old London road runs on one side of it; while the New Approach, leaving it on the other hand, completes the circuit.

You mount by stairs in a cutting of the rock to find yourself in a field of monuments.

Dugald Stewart has the honours of situation and architecture; Burns is memorialised lower down upon a spur; Lord Nelson, as befits a sailor, gives his name to the top-gallant of the Calton Hill.