dred ftudents who lodge in the town, but the profeflors have
good houfes in the college, where young gentlemen may be boarded
and placed more immediately under the profeffors eye, than
thofe that live in private houfes. An inconveniency that calk
loudly for reformation.
L i b r a r y . The library is a very handfome room, with, a gallery, fm.
ported by pillars ; and is well furnifhed with books. That bent.1
ficent nobleman, the firft Duke o f Chrndos, when he vifited tit
college, gave 5001, towards building this apartment.
Z a c h . Bo y d ’s In poifeffion of the college is a very Angular verfion of tit
bible, by the Rev. Zachary Boyd, a worthy,, learned and pious
divine of this city, who lived about a century and a half ago,
and dying, bequeathed to this feminary of knowledge his fortune,
and all his manufcripts, but not on condition of printing his poem
as is vulgarly imagined. It is probable that he. adapted his verfe.it
the intellefts of his hearers, the only excufe for the variety of groi|
imagery, o f which part of the foliloquy of Jmas.,in the fifh’s be%j
will be thought a fufficient fpeeimen..:
What houfe is this ?. here’s neither coal nor candle;,
Where I no thing but guts o f fiflies handle.
I and my table are both here within,
Where day ne’er dawn’d, where fun did never Jhine.
The like of this on earth1 man never faw,
A living man within a moniler’ s maw.! ■
B.urryed under mountains, which are high and deep!.
Plunged under waters hundred fathoms deep !
Not fo was Noah in his houfe of tree,
lo r through a window he the light did fee :
He failed above the higheft waves: a wonder,
I-and my boat are all the waters underf
He and his ark might go and alfo come;.
But I fit ftill in fuch a ftrait’ned room
As is moil uncouth; head and feet together,
Among fuch greafe as would a thoufand fmother;
Where I intombed in melancholy link,
Choaked, fnffocate with excremental ftink!
I Meifrs. Robert, and Andrew. Foulis, printers, and bookfellers to
like univerfity, have inftituted an academy for painting and en-
fcraving; and, like good citizens,, zealous to promote the wel-
fcre and honor of their, native place, have, at vaft. expence.,.
»formed a moft numerous collection of paintings from abroad, in
Birder to form the. tafte o f their eleves.
I The printing is' a considerable branch of bufinefs, and has long
■oeen celebrated for the beauty of the types, and the correftnefs'
■of the editions. Here are preferved, in cafes,, numbers of monu-
inental, and other ftones, taken out of the wall on the Roman
■ifations in this part of the kingdom: fome are well cut and or-
inamehted: moft of them were done to perpetuate, the memory
■of the vexillatio, or party, who performed fuch. or fuch works ;
■others in memory of officers who died in.the country. Many of
ithefe fculptures were engraven at the.expence of the univerfity ;
■whole principal.did me the honor of grefenting .me with afet.
The iit plate is very beautiful: a viftory, reclined on a globe,
■with a palm in one hand, a garland in the other; a pediment
■above, fupported by two fluted pilafters, with Corinthian capi-
Itals:. beneath. is a boar, a.common animal in fculptures found
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