The most prominent features in
the picture above are:
- East Princes Street
Gardens (upper left), with the railway lines leading from the station
through the gardens to the west to Glasgow and to the north across the
Forth Rail Bridge.
East Princes Street
Gardens were still a loch when the 1844 map was
published.
-
North Bridge
and South Bridge, leading to the south from the East End of Princes
Street.
-
Royal Mile, leading approximately west-east across the
centre of the map.
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