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to be made up of narrow streets and numberless filthy 

 courts and alleys. A splendid hall and library, new 

 lodges and buildings, have been erected, more con- 

 ducive to the comforts of the inmates, and more in 

 accordance with the orio-inal intention of this regal 

 endowment. 



The noble quadrangle of Trinity, with its spacious 

 hall, hung round with portraits of men eminent for the 

 services they have rendered science or religion ; its 

 library, replete with ancient manuscripts, and the works 

 of antique and modern writers ; its chapel, famous for a 

 work that has rendered the chisel of the sculptor almost 

 as immortal as his subject — the great Sir Isaac Newton — 

 by turns attracted my attention and engaged my time. 

 Neither did I overlook a similar, though not equal, 

 production in the Senate house ; and, in " looking upon 

 this picture and upon that," I could not fail to compare 

 the talents and services of the pilot that weathered the 

 storm — with the possessor of the numerous titles that 

 are engraved on the pedestal that stood beside him ; 

 while the outrageous representations of the two first 

 Sovereigns of the House of Hanover reminded me more 

 of their reputed though remote and savage ancestor, 

 Ariovistus, than they did of their talents, their virtues, 

 or their humanity. 



The mulberry-tree planted by the hand of the divine 

 Milton in Christ's College garden, and preserved in its 

 old age from the destroying hand of time by the care 

 of the less learned but as useful members of this pious 

 institution — who followed the occupation of our common 

 progenitor — did not escape my observation. 



