Arthur Seat

Arthur Seat is a lion-shaped hill 822 ft., close to Edinburgh on the East, from the top of which the prospect is unrivalled. It is an ancient volcano which is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh, Scotland, which form most of Holyrood Park. "The blue, majestic, everlasting ocean, with the Fife hills swelling gradually into the Grampians behind it on the North; rough crags and rude precipices at our feet ('where not a hillock rears its head unsung'), with Edinburgh at their base, clustering proudly over her rugged foundations, and covering with a vapoury mantle the jagged, black, venerable masses of stone-work, that stretch far and wide, and show like a city of fairyland" — such the view Carlyle had in a clear atmosphere of 1826.

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Arthur Young, Arthurian, Artichoke gall, Article, Article 15, Articles of Confederation