PANORAMA OF EDINBURGH.
THE Queen's visit to Scotland has given rise to a new panorama of Edinburgh, which Mr. BURFORD has painted from sketches made by himself on the occasion. It is nearly twenty years since any pano- ramic view of the Scottish capital has been exhibited in London ; and in this long interval many additions have been made to the architec- tural beauties of Edinburgh. The present view is taken from the Nelson Monument on the Calton Hill, looking down Prince's Street, which the Royal cortege is traversing. The Doric columns of that stupendous folly the " Parthenon" of the Modern Athens form a principal feature in the foreground, in which the New Observatory and the Monuments of Playfair and Dugald Stewart are conspicuous ob- jects. In front, the old Castle towers above the surrounding buildings ; and Scott's Monument, with an allowable licence, is shown as it will appear when completed. At the back, Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags rear their rocky masses above Holyrood. On one side, the roofs, steeples, and massy piles of the old town, stretch upward to the Castle, backed by the Pentland Hills ; and on the other the eye ranges over the Frith of Forth, and the intervening ports of Leith and Newha- ven ; the shores of Fifeshire smiling beneath the morning sun. The bold and varied features both of the landscape and the archite tare, and the admixture of smoke and sunshine, combine to produce a scene eminently picturesque and striking, apart from the associations that crowd on the mind of the beholder. The panorami.! picture is minutely faithful in all its details; and the pictorial effect is so skilfully managed that each building keeps its place in the crowded scene: the most distant objects are as distictly shown as in nature ; and the eye travels over the vast expanse with unwearied delight, and a sense of the altitude of the 'vantage-ground upon which the spectator is sup- posed to stand.
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