356 PROCEEDINGS OF THE SOCIETY, FEBRUARY 1866.

III. NOTICE OF HUMAN REMAINS FOUND IN DIGGING AT THE CITADEL, NORTH LEITH. By D. H. ROBERTSON, ESQ., M.D., F.S.A. SCOT. citadee Th f Norto l h Leit s erectehwa ordey b d f Oliveo r r Cromwell igarrisones n 1653 wa Protector'e t I th .y b d s troops e Restoratilth l - tion ,gives whe e Earwa grann i nth t f Lauderdaleni o l o t t . General Monk at one period resided there, as appears by the Trinity House re- cords. It is represented in G-reenvile Collins's Chart, originally pub- lished in his " Great Britain's Coasting Pilot," 1693, as a quadrangular fortification, with large angular bastion ditchd north-eastere an sTh . n bastion has been exposed in the recent drainage works. It is composed of solid and massive mason-work, rough towards the ditch and sea, but well chiselled in the inner front. The ditch on the other side was found at the depth of 10 feet to be soft and almost muddy. The soil was of a very black whacolourn o d t mighan , t have bee s slop nit remaine eth f o s about forty adult male skeletons were excavated skeletone - Th .ap I s prehend to have been those of the troops who died while garrisoned havtheree assaulw recory o en s an a , f do t having been forte madth .n eo Opposit norte eth h entranc Marinerse th o t e ' Churc numbeha f coinro s were found nea surfacee th r . These were chiefly foreign copper onef so the smaller German States, and several halfpennies of George II. One portiocitadee th f no l still remains t consistI . a lengthene f o s d arched doorway of massive masonry, with a cutting which might possibly have been for a portcullis. writer'e th n I s boyhood dayse citade e th are th f , ao l forme site dth e for the travelling circus and strolling booths, where Douglas, and the Warloc e Glenth f k,o were performe e entirth o et d satisfactioe th f o n beholders; but the terminus of the Edinburgh, Leith, and Granton Railway, and the Mariners' Church, have occupied the space, and left these neither a local habitation nor a name.