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Ramsay Lodge a place for Overseas soldiers so up I goes up a very steep hill only to find the whole joint crowded out, so they sent me round to the overflow house "Blackie House" here I got fixed up, & gave the Matron all my money &etc to look after, had some dinner & then went down the city, what a wonderful place Edinburgh is, all the while I was there I don't think I saw a single wooden or brick house nothing but solid stone is used & it gives the place the appearance of being as solid as a bell. Princes Street is something splendid, reckoned to be the finest street in Europe & I can quite believe it on one side there is nothing but beautiful big buildings stretching for a good ¾ of a mile & as straight as a die while the other side there are fine gardens statues &etc the whole way along & overlooking it all