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England.* We afterwards visited one of the 

 colleges near the library: it contained many 

 apartments, and large halls for the professors, 

 &c. the whole reminding me strongly of those 

 in Oxford. 



The church of La Spiritu Santo — belonging 

 to the Jesuits, is a large and fine building; 

 and, like all the edifices erected by that 

 learned body, is in good architectural taste. 

 It had before the suppression of the order 

 two colleges attached to it ; one immediately 

 adjoining, and laid out in various schools and 

 apartments for the professors and lecturers, as 

 large as the palace of the Thuilleries, with 

 long galleries and corridors, having inscribed 

 on each door the branch of learning to which 

 it was appropriated. The walls are still 

 covered with pictures, and, notwithstanding 



* It has been planted, and is now growing- under the care 

 of Mr. Tate, of the Botanical Garden, Sloane-street, as well 

 as many other ornamental and undescribed flowers and 

 shrubs of Mexico which I brought with me on my return. 

 VOL. T. H 



