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MWeYW, till aft' i tli.it this institution attained it- semi- "I |jii..|iL'; but now in. coll. _'<; can probably boast of a longer or inoro brilliant in- n, whether as profess >i's cir alumni. Ani'.ng the i CuUen, Black, Man, . Mae- laurin, lilair, !' . o, I'layl'.iir, Brown, Monro, I In 172D thr faculty of modicirn . d; and at it the university numbers considerably above 2,000 students, of whom nearly half have entered for litera- ture, two-thirds a .ining half for medicine, and tin' rest fur law and divinity. Tho number of matricu- lated students 1 ,'>'M; of members of the i.il council, 1.7SS; and of graduates of that 102, viz. in arts 1"> (>> M.A., '23 B.A.), in medicine 57. Tin' winter session opens in the beginning of November, and closes in the end of April ; the summer session opens in the beginning of May, and closes in the end of July. The general council meets twice a year on tho first Tuesday after th" llth of April, and on tho last Friday of October. Tho university court consists of the rector, the principal, the Lora-1'rovost of Edin- burgh, and tho five assessors. The Sonatas Academicus consists of the principal and professors. Tho foun- dation bursaries number eighty, of tho aggi value of 1,172. Tho site of the present building wag purchased in ">',. and includes tho whole space between South Bridge-street, North, West, and South i ..! _ :: '- lii" tdifioe ils.lt it a magnili nt Grecian structure, fomiiiig a parallelogram 358 fe< ; l>y 'J'i.5 wide. Its main front is to South Bridge-street, and is pierced by three lofty archways formin principal entrance, and adorned by it Doric portico, composed of six columns 26 feet high, i of a single block of stone. The university buildings surround the inner court, and include the library, the museum, tho hall of the Sonatus Academious, and tho * class-rooms. Tho building was commenced in 1786 by the town council, but soon came to a stand for want >!" funds to carry out so magnificent an undertaking, and continued in this unfinished state till ISLj, wln-n tie- government resolved to expend 10,000 annually towards its completion, which was effected in 1834. The original design was by Kobert Adams, but was subsequently modified by V . Playfair, to whom tho completion of the building was intrusted. The county hall, near Par- liament-square, was erected in 1817, after designs by Kli.it, in imitation of the temple of Erectheus at Athens. It lias a fine Ionic portico, modelled after tho Choragic monument of Thrasyllus, and contains several sj> . apartments, as tho court-room, 43 f>vt l.y 29, tho room in which the county meetings are hold, 50 feet by 2<>, besides other apartments for the sheriff's court. The General Register House for Uecords, ice., was also built from designs by Adams. It is situated at tho E. end <>t Prince' -street, and stands 40 feet back from tho road- way, being screened on cither side by a: wall, with a double flight of steps in tho centre, much unproved F by the alterations made in 1850. The front of th" tdifieo is 200 feet long, and two stories high, with basement floor, and flanked by round corner turrets. The central i- nirt is 8urmuiiV 1 by a dome .~n> : diai.. opposite tho building is ti tho Duk ~.-ilii|.,'..,n. Tho town and e .unty gaol. which adjoins ti ; V iterloo- place. MI the slope of th>' Calton Hill, extending along the
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side of the Onus Mark, t, i-. a han ! 152 feet long, erected in 184^'. lu The observatory, situated on ('jlt.m Hill, coil buildiiig.'i the original one, instituted in 17 fine camera obscura; an I ;h. n. .-. one, . .:.. d Sal George's Cross, 62 feet l.y o"2, with a doni.-, tiansil, and other instruments, and a monument t" I'layliiir. 1 I-.M- building is situated in lat. 5.3" " , ufl long. 3 10' 54" V. of Greenwich, with which it it Cflil nected by electric wires. The instant of one o'd^^l Greenwich timo, is simultaneously indicated by the d^H of tho time-ball on tho summit of N. ! .n'.- nr.nnineiit, and by the clock of the observatory, which simple piece of mechanism, fires a gun from one of f ihish of tho gun j the fall of tho time-ball communicate tin whatever distance theitateoftheatmoipheremayi them visible; butallowai inade,accorc distance, for tin i. jMjit of the time-gun, sound longer to travel than light. On tin- 1< .p of Arthur's i is heard 7 seconds aft. i t i , and ut the j Leith and Grant on not till 1 1 or 12 seconds. The j Theatre stood at the interact i"ii i.f Uroughton- and Leith-walk; it was burnt down in 1S.W, but since been rcbuii: Assembly Rooms are situated on the S. side of <jc Doric columns. by 42 wide, and 40 high ; and a handsome in 108 feet in length by 1)1 feet in breadth : the 1 1:: . >*.n built in 1843, at the cost of 10,000, a addition to the original building. T tution. 'ii tin N. end of the SI founded in lS2:i, and c mipl. i, ,1 at a cost ol 4" It is a handsome .!.!. >iu iiii< >. Mm .. its four fronts by fluted 1> steps, and surmounted by an nniioi m th.' N. M.l.' the building is crowned by a colossal of Uueen Victoria, execut. 1 by M roundeil by sjihynxes. K'.y.il Institution, which al.s'i ad- luii'l, the building accommodates tin I'Miiiburgh, with its library, museum, at the > the Hound stands the new bm to th U.iy.il Institution, but surpassing it The X. iiu.l S. ii-on:, an- ,ttl..nn-d l.y a iiied of tw.. wings, with a t . 1850, with great pomp, but was ling a ll" in the i. li'.nal li.illery, - -i ..!' the Scottish li for a museum nl art, iprising S : i .1 tion of pictures and In. .11. stands ill i , 1 WM i m IM'i from de.sign., l.y I l:iinilt"ii purely (in-eian building, " of unique ehai-.i. geons wax models, &c. The l;.t-.. is in nil. There are two Clyde-street, and the other in th" i "' i'lw Highland and Agricultui.il S.H i. 1 y's i : , some i and ('< ..rg.- 1 V : i ..t Auti.ju ui. > is in.w :. 1 in the itn.n. It is rich in euri" ti;d_ wiUl li history, as the maiden" or guillotine, Knoi's pulpit, an old bridle for taming tho tongues of railen,
