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old shareholders were induced to take more shares, and 

 new shareholders were added, and by the joiot contri- 

 butions of these, a sum was raised which proved nearly 

 sufficient to erect a large and commodious Hall within 

 what was the ancient Garden of St. Leonard's. The 

 completion of this structure will be noted in due time. 

 Wliether the venture was altogether prudent or not, is a 

 question which time has not yet finally answered. 



A fourth project which deeply interested Principal 

 Forbes, was the restoration of the College Chapel of St. 

 Salvator's. This chapel is not only the oldest unruined 

 fragment of ancient St. Andrews, but along with the 

 noble tower of St. Salvator's, which rises above it, forms 

 the earliest piece of University building still extant 

 in Scotland. Tower and chapel had both been built by 

 the good Bishop Kennedy, and are the only remnants 

 of his workmanship. The original roof of the chapel is 

 said to have been of a peculiar and rare construction, 



<ive blue stone, deeply engroined. Within the chapel 

 is the tomb of the founder, a Gothic structure wrought 

 in Paris, of blue stone, in the middle of the fifteenth 

 century, which must originally have been of wonderful 



ity, since even in its cruel defacement it still shows so 

 As the old stone roof is said to have been nearly 

 flat, the Professors, about a hundred years since, either 

 themselves conceived, or were persuaded by some architect, 

 t hat it would one day fall in and crush them. They there- 

 fore resolved to have it removed, and a common lath and 

 ng placed in its stead. So solidly, however, 

 was the old roof compacted, that the workmen, in order 

 to remove it, had to detach it from walls and buttresses 

 and let it fall en masse. The fall is said to have shaken 



whole city. But however this may be, it is only 

 too certain that it shattered the richly wrought columns, 

 canopies, aud pinnacles of the founder's tomb. A maim. .1 

 and mutilated fragment that tomb now stands, ! aulii'ul 

 still in its decay, proving that Professors of the eighteenth 



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