Yesterday, about noon, a journeyman wright, said to be much intoxicated with liquor, tumbled down from the walk on the west side of the Calton-hill, to the bottom. He was carried to the Royal Infirmary, but as both his arms were broke, had received a fracture in his skull, and was otherwise miserably bruised, there are but little hopes of his recovery.
Taken from the Caledonian Mercury, 25 September 1780. [Image: Flikr Commons.]