134 THE JOURNEYMAN. 



Charles II., he proceeds in a very different spirit to 

 refer to another and less pretentious effigy then visible 

 in Edinburgh. ' At the lower end of the High-street ' 

 these are his words ' is a house, from a window of 

 which, in the earlier days of the Reformation, John Knox 

 frequently used to preach. To preserve the memory of 

 this, in a small niche, a bust of the illustrious Reformer 

 appears, as if still holding forth to the people. At his 

 right hand, in low relief, a circle representing the sun, 

 upon which the name of God is inscribed in Greek, 

 Latin, and English, appears as if emerging from a thick 

 cloud. The sculpture of the whole was rude when at its 

 best, and the wasting hand of Time has rendered it still 

 more uncouth ; nevertheless, some person, doubtless of 

 more zeal than judgment, has got the bust painted, and 

 surrounded it with a tawdry pulpit. I need hardly tell 

 you that these ill-judged alterations have given it a carica- 

 tured appearance ; and yet I felt more impressed when 

 looking at it from the very spot upon which some of the 

 original's auditors stood, than I did when standing before 

 the horse and man of Parliament Square; for, with a 

 feeling which perhaps the venerable Reformer would have 

 censured, as savouring too much of the idolatry he 

 abolished, I uncovered my head and bowed very low to 

 his effigy/ 



His estimate of Edinburgh College is high, and the 

 terms in which it is couched prove that he had already 

 acquired some technical knowledge of architecture. ' The 

 College in my opinion is the finest building in Edin- 

 burgh, either taken in its parts or as a whole. It forms 

 a square, the exterior of which displays all the chaste 

 simplicity of the Doric order, and the interior the lighter 

 graces of the Ionic and Corinthian.' 



He visits the burying-grounds of the city : here is 



