though low, and built with a dull red stone, presents a most beautiful and highly-enriched specimen of the English, or pointed style of Gothic architecture; the windows are ornamented with peculiar richness, and, in the general decoration, no part, interior or exterior, has been forgotten. On viewing this elegant pile, where the most exquisite workmanship is mouldering, obsolete, and almost in oblivion, sensations of the strongest regret are excited. Part of the upper roof of its chancel is yet in existence, though the lower one is entirely demolished; on the wall is a beautiful monument, to the memory of Margaret, daughter of Robert the Third, king of Scotland, and wife to Archibald, earl of Douglas, and duke of Terouan. The sequestered situation of this college, the romantic scenery in its immediate neighbourhood, the gentle murmuring of the Clouden, and the distant roaring of the "swells and fa's" of the Nith, seem to have inspired the poet with the most sublime ideas. His poem, intituled, A Vision, is a proof of his fondness for liberty, though prudential reasons have here, as in other instances, prevented the full expression of his sentiments; it is also interesting, as conveying to the person who has visited these ruins correct ideas of their situation. The tower, mentioned in the beginning of the poem, is attached to the college, and seen in both the views here given: it was formerly the residence of the provost, but is not so ancient as the college itself: this, as well as the rest, is totally in ruins: here The wa'-flower scents the dewy air, |