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THE garden wherein St. David budded trees
THE garden wherein St. David budded trees and
cultivated such fruits and flowers as were then
known in Britain is a place of flowers and shrubs
again, save where it is intersected by the prosaic
railway or the transverse Earthen Mound; but
those who see the valley now may find it difficult
to realise^that for 300 years it was an impassable
lake, formed for the defence of the city on the
north, when the wall of 1450 was built; but the
well that fed it is flowing still, as when David
referred to it in his Holyrood charter. Fed by it
and other springs, the loch was retained by a dam
and sluice at the foot of Halkerston’s Wynd—the
dam being a passable footway from the city to the
northern fields.
source-Old and New Edinburgh
