holyroods

Updated: July 10, 2025

These hospitals are the Holyroods of Edinburgh II. They honor it with a renown better than the royal palace of the latter name ever won. I said Edinburgh the Second. That is correct. There are two towns, the Old and the New; the last about half a century's age. But the oldest will be the youngest fifty years hence.

Elihu Burritt - A Walk from London to John O'Groat's