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call it, with an arching joint, muft neceflarily lye as firm ("and for 

 the very fame reafon) as thofe at Queens College do, and fo moft 

 certainly they would, were the arches quite removed. There is 

 alfo much fuch another roof over a little Oratory or Cbapptl in the 

 Church of North Leigh in this County. 



138. Asfo- arched roofs of fione, that of the Divinity School 

 is a fine piece of Architecture ; and fo is that of the ftately ftair- 

 cafe leading into Chrisl-Church great hall. The Phyfickgarden gate 

 is a curious piece of ruftick.rock?work. ; and the Porich at St. Maries, 

 the Vniverfity Church, is a well contrived thing. And were it not 

 improper amongft thefe to mention zftruclure of fo inferior a qua- 

 lity, as New College houfe of Eafement, commonly called the long- 

 boufe, I could not but note it as a ftupendious piece of buildings it 

 being fo large and deep, that it has never been emptyed fince the 

 foundation of the College, which was above 300 years fince, nor 

 is it ever like to want it. 



139. The Portico's on the Eafi and Weft fides of the Neve Qua- 

 drangle at St. Johns College, built by the moft Reverend Father in 

 God, William Laud Arch-Buliop of Canterbury, fupported with 

 pillars of Blecbington Marble, are well worthy notice ; and-fo is 

 the Cloyfter at Magdalen College, the Butterefles without being 

 curioufly adorned with Hieroglyphical Imagery. 



1 40. The erecl: Southern declining Vial over ^11 Souls College 

 Chappel, is a neat piece of work, fo curioufly contrived by Sir 

 Chriftopher Wren, that though it ftand high, yet by the help of two 

 half rays, and one whole one for every hour, one may fee to a mi- 

 nute what it is a clock* the minutes being depicted on the fides of 

 the rays, vi%. 1 5 on each fide, and divided into fives by a diffe- 

 rent character from the reft. 



141 . The Cylindrical Dyal in Corpus Chrifti College Quadrangle, 

 let at right angles with the Horizon (the common feclions whereof, 

 with the hour circles (except the Meridian circle which divides it 

 by the axis') as alio the Mquinottial, are all Ellipfis) is a fine old 

 piece of Gnomonicks ; of which no more, becaufe its Contriver 

 Mr. Robert Heggs, Fellow of theCollege, has already written of it^. 

 And the Dials made upon a pile of Books on Neve College Mount, 

 with Time on the top, exaftly pointing out from what Quarter 

 the wind blows, upon the 32 Points of the Compafs, depi&ed on 



' Tr*8. deHorohgiii, Lib. 4:. cap. 4. MS- in BH>liatA.C.C,C- 



