Dark Edinburgh on Nostr: "The more immediate changes in Edinburgh proceeded chiefly from the growth of the ...

"The more immediate changes in Edinburgh proceeded chiefly from the growth of the city. The single circumstance of the increase of the population, and its consequent overflowing from the old town to the new, implied a general alteration of our habits. It altered the style of living, obliterated local arrangements, and destroyed a thousand associations, which nothing but the still preserved names of houses and of places is left to recall."
- Memorials of His Time, Henry Cockburn