SCOTS MAGAZINE, AND Edinburgh Literary Miscellany, FOR NOVEMBER 1808: With a View of BLACKFRIARS CHAPEL, ST ANDREWS. Proceedings of the Wernerian Natu. 808 . 811 The Bee,. 845 846 847 ib. Lines, addressed by an Officer to a 813 815 Italy, A Journey through the Highlands and SCOTTISH REview. Spain, 848 849 ib. ib. 850 ib. 851 852 Treaties between France and Spain,858 Portugal, ... 1. Craufurd's History of the University of Edinburgh,... Conferences at Erfurth, -Overtures for Peace, $67 868 Trial of Major Campbell,. ib. SCOTTISH CHRONICLE. 835 II. Blake's Illustrations of Blair's. 839 Synod of Glasgow and Ayr, ib. 876 877 ib. Births and Deaths, ib. Stocks and Markets, 878 880 State THE Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, FOR NOVEMBER 1808. Description of BLACKFRIARS CHAPEL, expeditione"." This expedition would ST ANDREWS. no doubt be promoted by the plunder of those famous edifices, which fell to the share of the mob. THIS ruin is situated in the ancient city of St Andrews, near the west end of the South or principal street. The convent here situated is generally understood to have belonged to the Dominicans, or Black friars; and to have been founded by Bishop Wishart in 1274. What now remains forms a mere fragment, tho' extremely elegant in its appearance, with an arched roof. The building appears to have been anciently of great extent. All the garden on the South side of the ruin, and of the present grammar school (which stands immediately contiguous to it) exhibits, when dug, the marks of having been built upon; and there are still standing, and inhabited, on the same side of the street, about forty yards west from the ruin, some old houses which have much the appearance of having once formed part of the buildings of the convent. This convent, with all the other fine ruins of St Andrews, was demolished in one day (in June 1559) in consequence of a sermon of John Knox, which moved the hearers with such zeal, that "as weill the Magistrates, the Proveist, and the Commonalty, did agree to remove all monuments of idolatry, quhilk also they did with Proceedings of the WERNERIAN Natural History Society. AT the meeting of this Society, 12th the Rev. Jameson of St Mungo, Dumfries-shire, read a paper intituled, Observations on Meteorological Tables, with a description of a new Anemometer. After some general observations on the importance of meteorological observations, and on the merits and defects of registers of the weather, &c. he pointed out what he considered to be the best form of a meteorological journal, and then described the external form and internal structure of an extensive and complete meteorological observatory, and enumerated about twenty different instruments, which ought to find a place in every establishment of that kind. He remarked, that a daily examination of the changes that take place in these instruments, joined with a careful record of the external appearances in the atmosphere, will afford a constant and most fascinating employment to the most * Knox's reformation. |
