ABERDEEN (OLD), suburb, adjacent to the river Don, about a mile north of Aberdeen. It became the seat of a bishopric in 1154, acquired a university in 1494, and was long a rival to Aberdeen, but is now small, quiet, and semi-rural, and has a post office, with money order department, under Aberdeen. The nave of its cathedral still stands, measures 126 by 68 feet, has a very fine western window, and is used as Old Machar parish church. King's College was built in the 16th century, underwent much renovation and improvement subsequent to 1859, and has a tower surmounted by a stone crown, similar to that of St. Giles' Church in Edinburgh. The arts and divinity classes are held in this college; the law and medicine classes are held in Marischal College, Aberdeen ; and the number of matriculated students in the winter session of 1879-80 was 701, in the summer session of 1881, 233. An ancient one-arched bridge and a modern five-arched bridge span the Don in the near vicinity and the former is the ' Brig o' Balgownie, figuring in an anecdote and lines of Lord Byron.