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| Falkirk (Continued) | [continued from page 1] and about its middle sends back in one side a recess in which stands the spire, but even this is uniform in nothing; mean in some of its edifices; constantly changeful in its breadth, and destitute of the trivial grace of straightness. Over nearly half of its length from a little west of its middle, eastward; the sides of this street are subtended by mimic crowds of tiny streets which pressing in upon it at various angles of junction, or of divergency from parallelism, though they do give the town an extreme breadth of not more than 300 yards; occasion more serious perplexity to a stranger than he feels in two thirds of the far spreading New Town of Edinburgh. But the town properly viewed is quite as remarkable for the strangling extension of its limbs away among Cornfields and an open agricultural territory, as for the squeezing up of its main body within oriental street limits. Both the east and west ends of its High Street are in fact solitary street lines, which look as if they were wandering away from the town with which they communicate. Another thoroughfare called Kerse Lane after being reach by angular turnings or irregular debouchings through the north wing of the town straggles away in utter loneliness upwards of a quarter of a mile on the road to Grangemouth. But more surprising than all a thoroughfare leading due north from High Street runs onward for 1¼ miles 3½ times the length of the body or Compact part of the town and 6 times its breadth, this enormous elongation Consists of a Continuous street, forming the suburban districts of Grahamston & Bainsford [continued on page 3] |
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