the original streets by the still-remembered outlets of evil notoriety, Taylor's Close, with its annexe of Jib-boom Square, Drummer's Close, Longwell Close (from the long well 50 feet deep, whose situation is inscribed on a memorial stone in the centre of Duff Street), Harvie Lane, and others of the like nature, to say nothing of the numerous pen closes running from the low streets, of which the vilest was, undoubtedly, Mince Collop Close, opening from Dalrymple Street between William Street and Longwell Close. The romance of the streets would open up a field of research sufficient to form a lecture by itself, but we shall confine ourselves to those whose names throw some light on our special subject. Cross-Shore Street, in common parlance known as "The Crossshore," where sales of poinded effects are still carried out, points us to the old Market Cross beside the shore, then marked by

means of white pebbles gathered from the beach, imbedded in the roadway in the form of a cross. Charles Street was originally known as Herring Street, from one of the staple industries, the memory of which is still preserved in the herring barrels which appear in the Town's Coat of Arms, although it does not now include the not too poetical motto adopted by our ancestors, "Let herrings swim, that trade maintain." Virginia Street recalls the extensive imports of tobacco from Virginia, then a British Colony, while the West India sugar trade is commemorated by Jamaica Street, Tobago Street, Antigua Street, and Trinidad Place. The rule observed, when streets first began to receive distinguishing names, was that the right of nomenclature was given to the first feuar on the line of street, but, notwithstanding this rule, sometimes difficulties. arose when two or more houses were being