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It was the clearing-house of the Highlands, as Stagshawbank on the Tyne was the clearing-house of Scotland.The drover from Glen Affric, herding his kyloes among the autumn bracken, could see from his bivouac a cloud of dark smoke on the banks of the Carron river, and hear by day and night the clang of hammers.And the spectator, according as he was a lover of old things or an amateur of novelties, would have sighed or approved.The little city, strung from the Castle to Holyroodhouse along her rib of hill, where more history had been made than in any place of like size save Athens, Rome and Jerusalem—which, according to the weather and the observer’s standpoint, looked like a flag flung against the sky or a ship riding by the shore—was enlarging her bounds and entering upon a new career.
Before he had left home the Canongate had burst its bonds into New Street and St John Street, and he noted that the city had spilled itself farther southward beyond the South Bridge of the Cowgate into new streets and squares.The failure of Jacobitism flung Scotland back upon herself and forced her to work out her own salvation.