Note 7 — Chapter V · IMPROVEMENT OF EDINBURGH. 1812–1834.

Translation also by Dr. Gregory:—“In the reign of George the Third, the father of his country, in the second year of the Provostship of Sir John Marjoribanks, Baronet, of Lees,—The citizens of Edinburgh having made this new and magnificent access over the neighbouring hill to the capital city, according to the plan of Robert Stevenson, Civil Engineer, ordered the name of the Regent, George Augustus Frederick, to be inscribed on this bridge.”