Cardinal Beaton's Caftle isfituated, north of the cathedral, on a ridge of rocks 
projecting into the fea, and feems to have been a forLrefs capable of good defence. 
The front, which communicates by a kind of bridge with the land, is the only part 
in the fmalleft degree entire : the reft is a heap of ruins ; fome large maffes fcattered 
along the cliffs, others lying in the fea. The fragments of this gorgeous edifice bear 
ample teflimony that it has been one of the moft fuperb in its own time. 
In this Caftle the celebrated Cardinal was murdered on the twenty-ninth day of 
May, 1546. 
The Cathedral is faid to have been founded before the end of the eleventh cen- 
tury, but was not completed until the thirteenth. Its length from eaft to weft has 
been about three hundred and feventy feet. The caftle and the chapel of St. Re- 
gulus are mentioned as buildings of a ftill older date. The tower belonging to the 
chapel is a fquare, on each fide about twenty feet broad, and upwards of an hundred 
high. The magiftrates of St. Andrew's have lately given it a thorough repair, and 
carried a {tone ttair-cafe up to its top. 
In the town church, a magnificent white marble monument is raifed to the me- 
mory of Archbifhop Sharp, who was cruelly put to death a few miles from St. An- 
drew’s in the year 1675. His effigy, as large as life, is placed between two Corin- 
thian columns. He is dreffed in his facred robes, kneeling on a cufhion, with a 
book open before him. Below, the manner of his death is reprefented in exquifite 
workmanffiip. Some of the affaffins in the very ad of committing the murder, are 
dragging the prelate out of his coach ; others, on hoifeback, are feeding their eyes, 
looking towards the horrid fpeftacle. The Biffiop’s daughter, who had been with 
him in the coach, is reprefented on the ground fainting in the arms of two fup- 
porters. 
St. Andrew’s, in the days of epifcopacy, was the fee of an archbifhop, who held 
the primacy of all Scotland. 
Three fpacious grafs-grown ftreets, almoft parallel, concentre in the area before 
the cathedral, and are croffed at right angles by feveral lanes. 
' The fituation of the univerfity is peculiarly favourable to fcience, as there is no- 
thing near to draw off the attention of the ftudents, and as there are many feenes no- 
bly calculated to infpire wifdom and awaken genius. 
