2<S8 The Statural Hiftory 



134. In (liort, this fl air -cafe feems to be a compofition of 4 

 half-pace- open-newel'd fair-cafes, as may eafily be perceived by 

 the figures^ 123, 123,123, 123, and 567, 567, 567, 567 , only 

 communicating in the middle ; which indeed (hews very magni- 

 ficently, but has this inconvenience, that there is no paflage from 

 one room into another though on the fame floor, without going up 

 and down many fteps ; as in Scheme the fecond, if from a to b, 

 andfoof the rooms of any of the other fides, you have no paf- 

 fage but from 6 to 7, and fo down again to 6, i. e. 14 fteps. But 



if you are to go from corner to corner, as fuppofe from a to c, or 

 b to d, & vice verfa, whether you pafs round the fides, or over 

 the middle halfpace^ you cannot do it, without afcending and 

 defcending in all twenty eight fteps. 



135. Ofpublick Buildings, the moft eminent in the County 

 are certainly thofe of the Colleges and Halls, the FublickScbools r 

 Library and Theater in the Vniverfity of Oxford-, of which yet in 

 the whole I (hall give no account, their magnificence and outward 

 Architetlure being already fufficiently (hewn,by the exquifite hand 

 of Mr. David Loggan, C halcographer to the Vniverfity, in his Cuts 

 of them all lately fet forth. It (hall fuffice me therefore to give 

 a fuccincl: account of fome particular parts of them, whether in 

 the /lone or Timber-work) fcarce to be met with elfewhere, or 

 known to few. 



136. Of the firft fort is the flat floor offlone over the paffage 

 between the Right Reverend the Provotts Lodgings, and the Chap- 

 pel at Queens College, born up only by the fide walls without any 

 pillar, though confifting of divers ftones not reaching the walls, 

 which yet indeed may very well be, fince as I am informed by the 

 fame Right Reverend Frovoft, and Bi/hop of Lincoln, who pulled 

 up the boards of the room above to view the curiofity ; the Jlones 

 are all cuneoform, and laid like that they czWjlraight Arch-work, 



137. The Roof of Merton College Treafury is alfo an odd piece 

 of f one- work-, being all made of Ajhler, yet flooping to an angle 

 (only more acute than ufual) like roofs made of Timber : It has, 

 'tis true within, three inequidiftant arched ribs of flone thatfeem 

 to fupport the Fabrick, which is about 20 foot long, but thtf ones 

 not reaching from rib to rib, and feeming to be laid like common 



s pavementboth within and without, make many to wonder that it 

 does not fill in : but the ffones being pretty thick, and cut as they 



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