Edinburgh, Scotland/edinburgh093
Previous | Home | NextThe only features of this map which still remain is Cowgate (now a street) and fragments of Flodden's Wall, which was built in 1513 to surround Edinburgh. The Old College Quad is roughly located where today's New College is. South Bridge [street] (in front of New College) does not yet exist. The Gardens are important because a laboratory was located here where probably the Black and Daniel Rutherford work was performed (see below). College Wynd was the main street leading from Cowgate to the Old College. (In 1686 an eighty-foot tower was constructed at the College Gate; no picture remains of this). Black's house during the beginning of his professorship at Edinburgh was located "just east of College Wynd near the College Gate." "Wynd" is Scottish for "alley."
