Ossian Collection > Journey to the western islands of Scotland

WESTERN ISLANDS, &c. 31
part to Aretinus that they were able to
excel him. Much is due to thofe who
firft broke the way to knowledge, and left
only to their fucceflbrs the talk of fmooth-
ing it.
In both thefe colleges the methods of in-
ftrudion are nearly the fame ; the ledures
differing only by the accidental difference
of diligence, or ability in the profeffors.
The fludents wear fcarlet gowns and the
profeffors black, which is, I believe, the
academical drefs in all the ScottiJJj univer-
fities, except that of Edinburgh, where
the fcholars are not diftinguifhed by any
particular habit. In the King's College
there is kept a public table, but the fcho-
lars of the Marifchal College are boarded
in the town. The expence of living is
here, according to the information that I
could obtain, fomewhat raore than at St.
Andrews.
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