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| Keywords: Portrait of James Craig by David Allan.jpg en August around what PUBLIC WORKS I see Lo Stately streets Lo Squares that court the breeze See Long canals and deepened rivers join Each part with each and with the encircling Main The whole enlivened Isle lines from James Thomson's poem 'Liberty' engraved on Craig's original plan for Edinburgh's New Town Craig's original imaginative but impractical conception was for the street plan to resemble the Union Flag with diagonal streets radiating from the centre This was subsequently modified in favour of three parallel main streets running in a straight line between terminating squares In the painting he is seen with a further modification which envisaged a circus as the central focus but this was not adopted The plan for a canal skirted by promenades in place of the drained valley of the Nor Loch was abandoned 2013-03-12 18 23 03 scanned from The Story Of Scotland First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group 1999-2000 Creator David Allan Custom license marker 2013 03 12 PD-old-100 Uploaded with UploadWizard David Allan painter | ||||
