| Europe - 1825 - 776 pages
...generally supposed that the conflagration was at an end ; but on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, a new alarm was given of a fire having broken out in the Parliament Square, a place directly to the windward of the former scene of destruction. It originated in the top story... | |
| Robert Chambers - Disasters - 1824 - 90 pages
...individual, with a powerful engine belonging to the Board of Ordnance, by means of which the flames were not only confined to the steeple, but were at length got...overlooked the Cowgate, eleven storeys in height. From the situation of this building, so far to windward of the scen<v of the former fire, it was judged... | |
| Walter Scott - Europe - 1825 - 780 pages
...generally supposed that the conflagration was at an end ; but on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, a new alarm was given of a fire having broken out in the Parliament Square, a place directly to the windward of the former scene of destruction. It originated in the top story... | |
| Europe - 1825 - 778 pages
...generally supposed that the conflagration was at an end ; but on Tuesday night, about ten o'clock, a new alarm was given of a fire having broken out in the Parliament Square, a place directly to the windward of the former scene of destruction. It originated in the top story... | |
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