members of the univerfity can fcarce recollect 

 it in better plight. But the faithful records of 

 hiflory * have handed down it's ancient dimen- 

 fions. Through a fpace of fixteen yards, on 

 every fide from it's trunk, it once flung it's 

 boughs; and under it's magnificent pavilion 

 could have fheltered with eafe three thoufand 

 men j tho in it's decayed flate, it could, for 

 many years do little more than fhelter fome 

 lucklefs individual, whom the driving fhower 

 had overtaken in his evening walk. In the 

 fummer of the year 1788, this magnificent 

 ruin fell to the ground ; alarming the college 

 with it's ruming found. It then appeared how 

 precarioufly it had flood for many years. It's 

 grand tap-root was decayed ; and it had hold 

 of the earth only by two or three roots, of 

 which none was more than a couple of inches 

 in diameter. From a part of it's ruins a chair 

 has been made for the prefident of the college, 

 which will long continue it's memory. 



Near Workfop grew an oak, which in 

 refpecl both to it's own dignity, and the 

 dignity of it's fituation, deferves honourable 



* See Dr. Plot's Hift.'of Oxf. ch. vi. fed. 45. 



mention. 



