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Tonight we're relaxing with the third and final part of Edinburgh

picturesque notes by Robert Lewis Stevenson, first published in 1878, and reprinted as The People's Edition by Sealient Co. Limited. 38 Great Russell Street, London.

Let's pick up where we left off.

Chapter 7 The Villa Quarters

Mr Ruskin's denunciation of the new town of Edinburgh includes, as I have heard it repeated, nearly all the stone and lime we have to show. Many, however, find a grand air and something settled and imposing

in the better parts. And upon many, as I have said, the confusion of styles induces an agreeable stimulation

of the mind.

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