A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

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Samuel Johnson. A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland

INCH KEITH

ST. ANDREWS

ABERBROTHICK

MONTROSE

ABERDEEN

SLANES CASTLE, THE BULLER OF BUCHAN

BAMFF

ELGIN

FORES. CALDER. FORT GEORGE

INVERNESS

LOUGH NESS

FALL OF FIERS

FORT AUGUSTUS

ANOCH

GLENSHEALS

THE HIGHLANDS

GLENELG

SKY. ARMIDEL

CORIATACHAN IN SKY

RAASAY

DUNVEGAN

ULINISH

TALISKER IN SKY

OSTIG IN SKY

COL

GRISSIPOL IN COL

CASTLE OF COL

MULL

ULVA

INCH KENNETH

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At an hour somewhat late we came to St. Andrews, a city once archiepiscopal; where that university still subsists in which philosophy was formerly taught by Buchanan, whose name has as fair a claim to immortality as can be conferred by modern latinity, and perhaps a fairer than the instability of vernacular languages admits.

We found, that by the interposition of some invisible friend, lodgings had been provided for us at the house of one of the professors, whose easy civility quickly made us forget that we were strangers; and in the whole time of our stay we were gratified by every mode of kindness, and entertained with all the elegance of lettered hospitality.

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Saint Andrews seems to be a place eminently adapted to study and education, being situated in a populous, yet a cheap country, and exposing the minds and manners of young men neither to the levity and dissoluteness of a capital city, nor to the gross luxury of a town of commerce, places naturally unpropitious to learning; in one the desire of knowledge easily gives way to the love of pleasure, and in the other, is in danger of yielding to the love of money.

The students however are represented as at this time not exceeding a hundred.  Perhaps it may be some obstruction to their increase that there is no episcopal chapel in the place.  I saw no reason for imputing their paucity to the present professors; nor can the expence of an academical education be very reasonably objected.  A student of the highest class may keep his annual session, or as the English call it, his term, which lasts seven months, for about fifteen pounds, and one of lower rank for less than ten; in which board, lodging, and instruction are all included.

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