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| ABBOTSFORD | Abbotsford (Contd.) [Continued] | 007.03 | [Continued from page 99] The court yard extends along the front of the house about 150 Yards, and forms almost a square directly opposite the gateway a screen of open Arches of gothic stone worK, filled with a net work of iron affords a glimpse of the garden, which is beautifully laid out. Around the Walls of the Court Yard, and also in various parts of the building numerous antiquarian Relics, stones carved with armorial bearings, and historical and pious inscriptions, which have been gathered with immense labor from many an old and Mouldering ruin, are built into the walls, perhaps the most curious oddity, is the door which formerly closed the portals of the Old Tolbooth of Edinburgh, it is built in about half way up the wall, and at the West end of the house there is a doorway, composed of the stones which formed the actual portal of the Tolbooth. They were given to Sir Walter Scott on the pulling down of that building in 1817. Near this doorway is the pulpit of the celebrated Ralph Erskine. All around the back of the house and along the wall of the garden, there is a balcony of cast metal and also a finely trellised and shaded walk and in front of the Western and older part of the house, is placed a very beautiful, and by [Continued on page 101] |
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