Edinburgh sedan chair, Huntly House Museum
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Edinburgh sedan chair, Huntly House Museum
Image: © kim traynor Taken: 5 Nov 2010
"As this Town is situated on the borders of the sea, and surrounded by hills of an immense height, the currents of air are carried down between them with a rapidity and a violence which nothing can resist. It has frequently been known, that in the New Town at Edinburgh three or four people have scarce been able to shut the door of the house; and it is a very common accident to hear of sedan chairs being overturned. It seems almost a necessary compliment here, to wait upon a lady the next morning, to hope she got safe home. In many visits which I have made since I came here, two people have been obliged to go on each side of the chair, to keep it even while [an]other two have carried it; and sometimes even this precaution has not been sufficient." -- Edward Topham, Letters From Edinburgh, 1775
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