SCOTS MAGAZINE, Avant of the remarkable Case of Margaret Lyall, who remained in a state of Sleep nearly Six Weeks,..... 13 Meteorological Table of the Weather for 1916, kept at Gordon Castle, Epitaphs and Sepulchral Inscriptions,.. 17 Proceedings of the Caledonian Horti- Origin of Fountain Worship,............ 21 New Works published in Edinburgh,.. 51 Literary Intelligence,........ Memoirs of the Progress of Manufac- Verses recited on the 25th January 1817, being the Birth-day of Burns, 55 Lines, written in the ruined Chapel at Balcarres, 31st October 1816,........ 56 Auld Age and Young ne'er gree the- Verses to a Young Lady,........................................ ib. Interesting Extract from the Sydney Gazette, relative to the newly-disco- vered Country to the Westward of Account of a dreadful Massacre, by the New Zealanders, of British Seamen, 58 North America-The President's Mes- July 1815, to 1st July 1816,......... 23 On the Standard to be adopted for the Regulation of Weights and Measures, 24 On the Poetry of Scott and Byron : from Present State of Poetry in Germany,... Tas of Abbreviation of the different Orders of Knighthood,............. Os and Residence of the Scottish Outlines of a Plan for the Encourage- Piculars of the Failure of the Expe- Con up the River Congo,............ 33 aphical Notice of the late Right Scots Magazine, AND EDINBURGH LITERARY MISCELLANY, For JANUARY 1817. Tis pleasant to see antiquity revived, and the taste for Gothic nhitecture renewed. It recalls to minds the times of old, when all these venerable Cathedrals and Abes, which are such splendid monuments of the taste and wealth of our refathers, and which still form the thest and noblest displays of archilecture, of which this or any other Country can boast, were standing omplete in all their magnificence, hurt by the band of time or of vioence, and frequented by generations, which, with all their pomp and splenmar, have passed away. We, who re now acting our parts on the stage of time, must soon follow, and geneeas yet unborn shall view with miar feelings those sacred edifices which our hands have reared. This city deserves great praise for that zeal which it has, of late, so remarkably displayed, in erecting new ces of public worship, and in the good taste with which they are planed. The two Episcopal Chapels in the Gothic style, which are at pre It sent building in Edinburgh, are, in this respect, highly worthy of notice. But Bishop Sandford's Chapel, in particular, will have a splendid appearance, and from its delightful situation, will produce an imposing effect on the mind of the beholder. Standing at the end of one of the finest terraces in Britain, (with Lord Nelson's monument, and the governor's house full in view) like a venerable Cathedral with its Gothic spire, it will meet, in majesty, the eye of the spectator, at a considerable distance, whether he approach it by Princes Street, or the Lothian Road. will besides form a happy combination with the beautiful spire of St Cuthbert's Church, to which it is conti guous, and also with the dome of St George's, which, situated to the one side, raises its majestic head above the neighbouring edifices. It will thus form a grand termination to that romantic vale, which the stupendous rock of the Castle overhangs in awful majesty, and which separates the wild, irregular, and elevated masonry of the Old Town, from the beautiful, regular, and moderate buildings of the New. This singular and contrasted group of objects, together with the unrivalled and picturesque scenery which, |