Nell now glanced towards the city, of which the outlines became more distinct.

Lofty monuments, slender steeples emerged from the gloom; a kind of ashy light was spread abroad.

At length one solitary ray struck on the maiden's sight.

It was that ray of green which, morning or evening, is reflected upwards from the sea when the horizon is clear.
An instant afterwards, Nell turned, and pointing towards a bright prominent point in the New Town, "Fire!" cried she.
"No, Nell, that is no fire," said Harry.

"The sun has touched with gold the top of Sir Walter Scott's monument"-- and, indeed, the extreme point of the monument blazed like the light of a pharos.
It was day--the sun arose--his disc seemed to glitter as though he indeed emerged from the waters of the sea.