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:The whole enlivened Isle.

:The whole enlivened Isle.

(lines from James Thomson's poem 'Liberty' engraved on Craig's original plan for Edinburgh's New Town)

(lines from James Thomson's poem 'Liberty' engraved on Craig's original plan for Edinburgh's New Town)
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:Craig's original, imaginative but impractical conception was for the street plan to resemble the Union Flag with diagonal streets radiating from the centre. In the painting he is seen with his modified plan which envisaged a circus as the central focus. This too was subsequently modified in favour of the "Principal Street"—George Street—running in a straight line. The plan for a canal skirted by promenades in place of the drained valley of the Nor Loch was also abandoned.}}
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: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 the three main streets running in a straight line. 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 also abandoned.}}

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|source=scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000

|source=scanned from The Story Of Scotland, First Press and Scottish Daily Record Group, 1999-2000

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