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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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ig three separate buildings, Imilt in 1.SL5-7, in place of t i.-lliithian," which Ht(Hl 11. ir . till 1S17, when th.' g.it>! was L-I Slr i 1 : the ori- ginal bridewell, built by liobert Adams, 179 1 to the gaol in 1840 ; and the new extension giiou-* t.i the bridiiwi'll, and compL'trd in LSI," : tliis hut . toward i a grand gaU:, in keeping with tin i uj.peuiMJ 1 liatanco more like a su i
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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 *.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,