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Speaker 1: the city of Edinburgh, having risen three hundred and fifty

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Speaker 1: million years ago, long before such periods of time were

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Speaker 1: it has been gradually interwoven with many of its follies.

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Speaker 1: Just a cursory glance at any map of its surface

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Speaker 1: will reveal our attempts to tame it and claim it

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Speaker 1: for our own names, tattooed across its steep crags and

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Speaker 1: found trapsing over Haggis, snow gutted Haddie or Hunter's Bog.

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Speaker 1: On the southern edge, you'll find the wells o'weary, a

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Speaker 1: former hub of folk life and tradition. It was there

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Speaker 1: royal park. And to the west the high ridges of

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Speaker 1: at the foot of the crags, that relatives attempted to

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Speaker 1: His burial was interrupted by a local mob angered by

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Speaker 1: at sea. Turning up from Saint Margaret's Lock on the

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Speaker 1: summer's day in July eighteen thirty six. You're listening to Unexplained,

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Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClane Smith. The boys had been out

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Speaker 1: by eighteen inches, inside of which lay something very unusual. Indeed,

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Speaker 1: Positioned neatly in rows across three shelves were seventeen small

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Speaker 1: wooden boxes. Each were about four inches long and one

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Speaker 1: tiny ornaments made from tin and put together with great care.

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Speaker 1: Reaching into the hole, one of the boys pulled out

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Speaker 1: that had been delicately carved by its maker. Another box

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Speaker 1: was grabbed and quickly emptied, only to reveal yet another

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Speaker 1: To this day, the precise meaning and purpose of this

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Speaker 1: Burke soon found himself in Falkirk, a town some twenty

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Speaker 1: Four years later, the canal was finished. With no reason

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Speaker 1: But like any city, Edinburgh is and has always been

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Speaker 1: Air and Burke watched carefully as a carpenter constructed a

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Speaker 1: In this capacity, Monroe was entitled to all the legally

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