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Betbune, or Beaton, who did not live to complete it. This is fal
to have been the fite of a fchola illujiris long before the eftablij
ment even of the univerfity •, where feveral eminent clergy J
taught, gratis., the fciences and languages. But it was called t l
new college, becaufe of its late eredtion into a divinity college ■
the archbiihop.
The univerfity is governed by a chancellor, an office original!
defigned to be perpetually veiled in the archbilhops of St. Andrn'm
but fince the reformation, he is eleiled by the two principals, sn|
the profelTors of both the colleges.
The prefent chancellor is the' Earl of Kimoull, who, with his c J
raileriftic zeal for promoting all good works, has eftabliihed hoi
premiums, to be diftributed among the ftudents, who make the bell
figure in the annual exercifes. The effedl is already very apparent
in exciting the ambition of a generous youth to receive thele marl*
of diftindtion, that will honor their lateft days.
The reftor is the next great officer, to whofe care is committed till
privileges, difcipline, and ilatutes of the univerfity. The college!
have their redtors, and profefiors of different fciences, who areind*
fatigable in their attention to the inftrudlion of the ftudents, and t l
that effential article, their morals. This place poffeffes feveral verl
great advantages refpedting the education of youth. The airispui!
and falubrious the place for exercife, dry and extenfive ; the exerli
cifes themfelves healthy,and innocent. The univerfity is. fixed in 1
peninfulated county, remote from all commerce with the world, thl
haunt of diffipation. From the fmallnefs of the fociety every ftu®
dent’s charadter is perfedtly known. No little irregularity caifl
be committed, but it is inftantly difcovered and checked: vice?;
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knot attain a head in the place, for the incorrigible are never perited
to remain the corruptors of the reft.
[The ftudents may be boarded in the colleges, or in private
Ls, or in thofe of the profeffors. The price at the colleges is- L ei’ght pounds for the feffions, which lafts feven months. The
[tis very good, and a mailer always prefides at the table.
|The price at the profeffors,. or at private houfes, is from ten
twenty-five pounds a quarter. I obferved at one of the pro-
Bbt’s, young gentlemen from Bath, from Bourdeaux, and from
L; a proof of the extenfive reputation of the univerfity, not-
Vijhftanding the ftudents are far from numerous : there are at prefent
lie more than a. hundred, who during feffions wear red gowns,
Kthout fleeves.
Leave St. Andrew's-, afcend a" hill, and find the country on the
fights very uncultivated, and full of moors. Here firft meet with
plieries on this fide of North-Britain. Defcend into a trail, rich
|i corn, and enjoy a moft extenfive and beautiful view of the'
of Forth, the Bodotria of Tacitus. The Bafs ifland, with the
lores of Lothian, extending beyond Edinburgh, bound the fouth-
irr. profpeft. To the left, a few miles from the coaft of Fifey
Spears the ifte of May, about a mile in length, inaccefiible on the
fcern fide. On the eaftern is fafe riding for ihips, in wefterly
■orms. This ifte in old times was the property of the monks of
!<*%, in Yorkjkire; and in it David I. founded a cell, dedicated 1° til the faints ; who were afterwards fuperfeded by Adrian, a
Py man, murdered by the Danes, in Fife, and buried here. By
interceflion the barren had the curfe of fterility removed from
1®» and great was.the refort hither of female pilgrims.-
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