Dark Edinburgh on Nostr: "From the left of the High Street you pass down by a number of different allies, or ...

"From the left of the High Street you pass down by a number of different allies, or as they call them here, Wynds and Closes, to the different parts of the old town. They are many of them so very steep, that it requires great attention to the feet to prevent falling ; but so well accustomed are the Scotch to that position of body required in descending these declivities, that I have seen a Scotch girl run down them with great swiftness in pattens."
- Letters from Edinburgh, Edward Topham, 1774-5