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tained beyond all doubt that this was the grave of the Bruce ; and that there 

 lay the hallowed relics, which, after the lapse of nearly five hundred years, acci- 

 dent had revealed to the veneration of his grateful and admiring posterity. 

 The discovery created a powerful sensation over the whole kingdom, and drew 

 many individuals of the highest rank to the spot. A new coffin was then made 

 and filled with melted bituminous matter, in which the precious remains 

 were carefully imbedded, and the whole again consigned in great solemnity 

 to the earth. 



With these brief remarks we take leave of Dunfermline, and proceeding 

 through a succession of the richest landscapes, arrive at St. Andrews. As 

 partially seen in the annexed engraving, this city shows only the skeleton of 

 that ancient grandeur to which it once laid claim ; and, in its ruined outline, 

 harmonizes well with the stormy sea and sky here depicted. Those towers and 

 spires which once overlooked a populous city, are now the solitary chronicles of 

 its history the dilapidated monuments of the past, pointing a moral on the tran- 

 sitory nature of man and his works. But, although decay and desertion are 

 legibly impressed on every building around although the grass grows on the 

 street, and those noble monuments raised by a departed hierarchy are left 

 mouldering in the winds of heaven, Learning has still her seat within her walls ; 

 and that celebrated university, identified with the good city of St. Andrews for 

 so many centuries, maintains her vigour and freshness, and is yearly giving 

 new proofs, that, while matter is crumbling away while the crosier and the 

 sceptre are continually changing hands, the lamp of science is kept burning 

 the " mind" still advancing in its immortal career. 



In its history, St. Andrews is certainly one of the most remarkable cities in 

 the kingdom. Its university, which, in point of date, takes precedence of every 

 other in Scotland, was founded by Bishop Wardlaw in 1411 ; and, during the 

 long period which has intervened, has been frequented by students from almost 

 every part of Christendom. The archbishop of St. Andrews, as we have already 

 noticed, was primate of Scotland, generally a person of the highest rank, and 

 possessing a powerful influence in the state. To the unhappy fate by which 

 two of these dignitaries were overtaken, we have already adverted. 



The ruins of the Cathedral, founded in 1162, t'he Gray Friars' Chapel, and 

 Cardinal Beaton's Castle, are objects which fully attest the number and splen- 

 dour of consecrated edifices in this place, and awaken a sentiment of veneration 

 in the mind of every stranger. In the parish church is a monument erected 

 to the memory of Archbishop Sharp, who, as our readers know, was assassinated 

 on Magus Moor, by Balfour of Burleigh, and other enthusiasts, called 



