[282] Original in possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison.
[283] Original in possession of Mr. Alfred Morrison.
CHAPTER XXI
IN EDINBURGH
1778-1790. Aet. 55-67
On settling in Edinburgh Smith took a house in the Canongate—Panmure House, at the foot of Panmure Close, one of the steep and narrow wynds that descend from the north side of the Canongate towards the base of the Calton Hill; and this house was his home for the rest of his days, and in it he died. The Canongate—the old Court end of the Scottish capital—was still at the close of last century the fashionable residential quarter of the city, although Holyrood had then long lain deserted—as Hamilton of Bangour called it,
A virtuous palace where no monarch dwells.