Print  Specifics: Type of print: Intaglio, Steel engraving - Original antique print Year of printing: 1842 Publisher: William Beattie, George Virtue, Ivy Lane, London Condition: 1 (1. Excellent - 2. Very good - 3. Good - 4. Fair). Dimensions: 8 x 10.5 inches, (20 x 26 cm) including blank margins (borders) around the image. Paper weight: 2 (1. Thick - 2. Heavier - 3. Medium heavy - 4. Slightly heavier - 5. Thin) Reverse side: Blank Note: Green border around the print is a contrasting background on which the print was photographed. Original Narrative:   THE city of Aberdeen, the seat of two celebrated universities, is divided into the old and the new towns, at an interval of about a mile.  Of these, the former —now reduced almost to a village—appears to have been a town of some note as early as the ninth century, but gradually fell into decay after the great epoch of the Reformation.  The Cathedral of St. Machar was founded at the remote era of 1164, and repaired in the beginning of the fourteenth century.  But a new building of more elegant design was founded by Bishop Kinnimond, the second prelate of that family, and finished by Bishop Lcighton.  The Reformation, however, suspended all further operations, and left the pile a monument of premature decay. Of King's College, founded at the close of the fifteenth century, the learned Hector Boethius was the first principal. New Aberdeen, though irregularly built, is a hiindsome city, and beautifully situated on three gentle eminences at the mouth of the Dee.  The streets are spacious, and many of the public buildings of elegant design.  In ancient times, several religious establishments flourished here, belonging to the different orders of Dominicans, Carmelites, and Grey Friars, with an hospital, or Raison-Dieu. Marischal College, so named from its liberal founder, George, Earl Marischal of Scotland, has, like its predecessor, been long celebrated as a seat of the muses. Its professors and lecturers—twenty-seven in number—have shone conspicuous in every department of human learning, and arc continually sending forth in their pupils the living proofs of that zoal and assiduity with which their important functions are discharged.  With the fame of thia university, tho names of Campbell and Beattie are more especially associated, as the champions of religion and the ornaments of our native literature.   Martin2001 Satisfaction Guaranteed Policy! Any print purchased from me may be returned for any (or no) reason for a full refund including all postage. Internet seller since 1998. Five-star service.