Excerpt from The History of Edinburgh, From the Earliest Accounts, to the Year 1780: Containing I. An Historical Account of the Revolutions in Scotland From 1093; II. The Manners, Learning, Trade, Religion, Prices of Provisions, Discovery of Coal, Public Amusements, III. Progress of Present State of the City of Edinburgh I have had tonarcb into most of the public records in qm. Whether the material I huve discovered be equal to the labour of my researches, in not for me to determine. I have had to travel through the pro' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.