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Sitting in the glen between the Old and New Towns was the Nor' Loch, which had been both the city's water supply and place for dumping sewage. By the 1820s it was drained. Some plans show that a canal was intended[citation needed], but Princes Street Gardens were Sage Accounts created instead.

Excess soil from the construction of the buildings was dumped into the loch, creating what is now The Mound. In the mid-19th century the National Gallery of Scotland Sage Accounts and Royal Scottish Academy Building were built on The Mound, and tunnels to Waverley Station driven through it. The New Town was so successful that it was extended greatly. The grid pattern was not maintained, but rather a more picturesque layout was created.

Today the New Town is considered by many to be one of the finest examples Sage Accounts of Georgian architecture and planning in the world.

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Multi-storey Sage Accounts dwellings position it has held lands were the norm from the 1500s onwards with ten and eleven stories being typical and one even reaching fourteen stories. Additionally, numerous vaults below street Sage Accounts level were inhabited to accommodate the influx of (mainly Irish) immigrants during the Industrial Revolution. These continue to fuel legends of an underground city to this day. Today there are tours of Edinburgh which take you into the underground city, Edinburgh Vaults.[23]

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The New Town was an 18th century solution to the problem of an increasingly crowded Old Town. The city had remained incredibly Sage Accounts compact, confined to the ridge running down from the castle. In 1766 a competition to design the New Town was won by James Craig, a 22-year-old architect.

The plan that was built created a rigid, ordered grid, which fitted well with enlightenment ideas of rationality. The principal street was to be Sage Accounts George Street, which follows the natural ridge to the north of the Old Town. Either side of it are the other main streets of Princes Street and Queen Street.

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Princes Street has since become the main shopping street in Edinburgh, and few Georgian buildings survive on it. Linking these streets were a series of perpendicular streets Sage Accounts.

At the east and west ends are St. Andrew Square and Charlotte Square respectively. The latter was designed by Robert Adam Sage Accounts and is often considered one of the finest Georgian squares in the world.

Bute House, the official residence of the First Minister of Scotland, is on the north side of Charlotte Square.

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