[27]. “Patricius ... supremas dignitates scholasticas in viros onini laude majores (quorum vos hic vultus videtis) qui vel ipsas dignitates honorarunt, conferri curavit. Quid memorem Sandilandios, Rhætos, Baronios, Scrogios, Sibbaldos, Leslæos, maxima illa nomina.... Deus mi! quanta dici celebritas, quo tot pileati patres, theologiæ, juris et medicinæ doctores et baccalaurei de gymnasio nostro velut agmine facto prodierunt!” He alludes to the strangers attracted by the fame of the society—to the divines, Forbes, Barron, &c.—to the physicians. “Quantus medicorum grex! quanta claritas!... Quantum uterque Jonstonus, ejusdem uteri, ejusdem artis fratres.... Mathesi profunda, quantum poesi et impangendis carminibus valeant, novistis. Arthurus medicus Regis et divinus poeta elegiæ et epigrammatis, quibus non solum suæ ætatis homines superat verum antiquissimos quosque æquat. Gulielmus rei herbariæ et mathematum, quorum professor meritissimus est, gloria cluit. De Gulielmo certe idem usurpare possumus.... ‘Deliciæ est humani generis,’ tanta est ejus comitas, tanta urbanitas.”
[28]. These notices are taken from the History of the University of Edinburgh, from 1580 to 1646, by Thomas Crawford, printed in 1808 from a MS. of the seventeenth century.
[29]. Caballeros is the word used. It is hardly to be translated in an English word.
[30]. As a single sample of these excavations, we may mention one made at Portelette, on the Somme. At a depth of nine feet, a large quantity of bones was met with; and one foot lower, a piece of deer’s horn, bearing marks of human workmanship. At twenty feet from the surface, and five feet below the level of the present bed of the river, three axes, highly finished, and in perfect preservation, were turned up in a bed of turf. Some axe-cases of stag’s horn were also discovered in the same bed. Near these was a coarse vase of black pottery, very much broken, and surrounded with a black mass of decomposed pottery; and also large quantities of wrought bones, both human and animal.
[31]. Some very curious speculations and researches on this subject will be found in a pamphlet entitled A Vindication of the Bardic Accounts of the Early Invasions of Ireland; with a Verification of the River-Ocean of the Greeks. M‘Glashan, Dublin, 1851.
[32]. It is not improbable that the old feudal law, which placed the person of a female vassal at the disposal of the seigneur on her wedding-night, originated in political motives as well as in a tyrannous sensuality.
[33]. Aperçus Genealogiques sur les Descendants de Guillaume. Rev. Archéol. 1845, p. 794.
[34]. Types of Mankind. By T. C. Watt and G. R. Gliddon. London: 1854.
[35]. What Good may come of the India Bill; or Notes of what has been, is, and may be, the Government of India. By Francis Horsley Robinson.
Modern India. A Sketch of the System of Civil Government; to which is prefixed some Account of the Natives and Native Institutions. By George Campbell, Esq., Bengal Civil Service.