nios and Adomnan, the latter the- friend of Bede, Among the Strath--
clyd'e Welch, may be named Patrick, in his turn the. àpoftlc. of
Ireland.
, Independently o f thefe, the mod ancient fragment remaining of
Scôtiîh literature, is'th e Ghr.onicón 'Pittoriim, written by fome IriOi-clergyman,
probably a dignitary of the church o f À bcmëthy, tin the beginning
o f the eleventh century. Ö f the twelfth, century there are
fóme fragments, in the Regifter óf St. Andrews ; and fome fhort Chronicles'
publiihed by -Innés the Chronicle o f Melrofe,. and that o f
Holyrppd. p
I O n a o f the earl left, native writers; 4 s- Thomas o f .Erceldon. .'cjallcdtfthe
Ritiier; who flourifhed about the year 1270-* .an d w fo te .a .tmeteieal ro-
ïiïalÿdè^ blâïfed Sfr Triftrata, now unfortunately 'ldft. The çlex't.anmor
©f note is John Barbour, Archdêâccm^^M^Aberdfenj?; whoJ^ffteBajs-
poem 'b h th e A&iöhs b f Robert I; tt-he'year « 3 7 5 , <n®~ ta ta n ||® ö n u -
jn e n t o f induftry and talents for, that, 'pêfibd? A*Att-the fame time' 'frou-
rifhed John Forddn-j the fa th e r o f Scotifh hiftory* jpamses 1-,-of Srfotl&nd,.
wrote ’fome excellent poems, early iij3fhe fifteenth « ^ 'th iy ^ an d .h fi|^ ^ s ;
foU ow tf b y Holland, and H e n ry tlie Rimer. In the end ofithatt century
arofe Dunbar, the chief o f the ancient Scpti£h- pçète ; and, in the beginning
o f the next, G awin Douglas-, and D avid Liîidfâÿ. The Scötifh mufe
continued tew a rb le till the middle'- oF th e ’fëVehteehm1 bemtkiry, when
religious fanaficlfm eXtifrguifhed all the arts attcHbien'ee^ but no^yerore'
Drummond had ytoyen h i f wéb of Doric “delicacy.- 't a more
times, the names o f Thomfon, Blair, Armftrong, Beattie, Burns, l&c.
are ühiyerfàriy known.
Rude chroniclers continued the chain of -events; but Hiftorywas-
mrfte tilt Buchanan founded his claflieal trumpet. Bifhops L e f l e y and
B u rn e t. are not without th e irm e rit ; but w h y repeat *tb the echoes pf
fame, thé îlluflribûs namés of tïu tn e and Röbertfon ? f
The o th e r departments of fcience are of yet more recent cultivation
in (Scotland, ; even theology feems unknown till the beginning of the
Sixteenth century ; and o f medicine there is no itrace'' till the feven-
• feenth : while we can now bo aft of Blair ; and Edinburgh ranks among
the firft medical fchools o f Europe-. Natural phildfbphy and -luftbry
Hwere.-
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the I J p ||( ^ a $ > o n S c o t l a n d can now Eiw**-
,pr writers in ahnoft every branch, and equal progrefs has been TUKEmade
in moral philosophy. Among the few- departments -of.literature,
in which the.iiJBcht*fh authors hawo may he flamed
epic poetry;; comedy; • and the pritical illnftration of the clafficsyu'y
f.Tlu>?mpdhof edification parfued,"in^Sb®6land is highly .laudable ; and Education.
isVIiephSp^'thcfcft-pi^£ticahJ|rftebipnrftied in anyteountry in. Europe. -
The plan^vhtehi ‘is1 foliowedriri the citie^, 'd stn e a rly fimilaf'tQ that o f
BiiglatM^ehh'e'riSy private t.eadheEst;«0rfah’ large .public #K<f©Jgf pf w hich
t h a ^ W i s b t h e atod\< mary5-,ht$,,4®,§fjd', fto,rri the
fikt-eefith le!oitewyJf-’S'iBs0**the. fiipeiior.' advafntagefb6(th:erBcalafh .edupation
chrifflSs -intfevery tfectoht&yspari.lsh, poffeWi g®,'iche^)lma&er ,* 'Hi Uniformly
-aS^a]0lergy®ian; a t dead:,-the mlpiri® “general, .and thfc raf-e.
The 'fchfeofeUafter has 'aufe^i® -falary, o r rather-' pittance, -(Whiph g ab le s
Ohifdrep^at a rateje’afy and convenient, even
di^eflt’-paTefftsv It may, indeed, be, capj.puted,f hat & ifliiUing will go
far in this ^parochial' education, as A guinea in a#, .English, Jchpof _ lit
4t e ■ Highknid®,-theipbonchldren will a t t e n d ,t ^ t ^ ^ f ik s ih t^e.fpmines,
and tfee*ifch©al in >thp winter; j i t is-ridfe-wjfhpdsth-ppphe^ falai^- o f that
mb ft Ufeful- body; p f i&eti,4 fcHeiparach;iai fchb»J^mhftecs',iwere. 'moderately
-augfflfe^t'fed j-fslas 'n o t to (dewatic.rtfeem «.above, th e ir duty, !’.hut' to feeurp
them^&om w a n t, or flom^the hebeffity ofSiatermingling,joth^r!>Ia>bb©r
5WM',lfc^ritep'oMa'tit ;akdifa4tit:ary Qfficef
'e '^ra'Univeifitfes'ofSeottod-fOr rathe-r- end'eges ^f^r^alto^ngJafhmnL Unjverfitiea.
verfit-y includes many colleges and foundations)', .amountto no Jefs. than .
f o u ^ A f l S eaftfem St.. Andrew*«, Aberdeen,? apd- ,Edi®t
burgh ; and one on th e weftern, that ofoGlafgow. It would have.,been ■
far preferable-to'havefpunded one Qn 'the weftern coaft of Rofshire,jri
the centre of the Highlarids and Illes, that the light o f feiehce .might
have been diffufed over thefe heglefted region®;
■’ The uniyeffity o f St. Andrew’s was founded by Bifliop Wardlaw, in ■
the year 1412 ; but as.it is now o f fmallimportan.ee in the proximity of
that of Edinburgh, i t wouid-'he ..a .patriotic meafurc to transfer it fp (thi'
Highlands as -above mentioned. T h a t'o f Glafgow was[fourided by Bifhop
Turnbull, in the -.year. 145.3;, and it has produced many ilduftrious proy
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