“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.” Footnote 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. Footnote 29: _Caballeros_ is the word used. It is hardly to be translated in an English word. Footnote 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. Footnote 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. Footnote 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. Footnote 33: _Aperçus Genealogiques sur les Descendants de Guillaume._ _Rev. Archéol._ 1845, p. 794. Footnote 34: _Types of Mankind._ By T. C. WATT and G. R. GLIDDON. London: 1854. Footnote 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.