ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE EARL OF LEVEN AND MELVILLE, K.T. AND JOHN COOK, ESQUIRE, WRITER TO H. M. SIGNET The Trustees of Dr Bell's Will, AND THE FOUNDERS OF THE TWO CHAIRS OF EDUCATION IN THE UNIVERSITIES OF EDINBURGH AND ST ANDREWS, THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED. in large flakes, over house and church-steeple, away to the farthest end of the little wind-swept city. From the west, too, wind-currents find their way easily through it; that there is no stagnant air, and no close vapours, everywhere an openness, a skyey influence, and a ess of air all about. oach it from the south-from the hills that -and the traveller sees it set in a framework sea, and wood; while the pilgrims of the rmounting their last hill, halted at an till stands on the Hill of the King,1 knees at sight of the sacred spires, at length given them to behold of flesh. Stand in the middle gaps of the sand-hills flashes lue of the bay-waves; you ANDREW BELL was om in the 27th of March 1753. St Andrews is a place of deep-blue sea, which is new and old, town and entry tianity, that one or two words and infinite sky. Skylooks; while the town The traveller on reaching it sees a let down upon the fallen out of the ordinary track-rine to the sons of the common world, and that he has on lying place, which cannot be judged. You meet place,—which standards we apply to villages, and towns, experienced Such a cold stony hideousness of street, such a red; of sky, alternately chills and depresses, or lifts and inspires him. Old ruins, rising up bare and gaunt into the heaven, long reaches of monotonous street, quiet fields looking suddenly in upon the town, a bay of the most changeful hues-sometimes black as night, at other times of a blue as deep as the Mediterranean, or A |