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the day, and our engagements with Mr. 

 Hollingfworth did not allow us to accept the 

 invitation. We however had an opportunity 

 of thanking him, by making him a vifit in the 

 houfe built for the principal of the college, 

 which we were forry to obferve, like the other 

 parts of the ftrudure, had been left unheeded, 

 and was falling into comparatively youth- 

 ful decay. Mr. Thomas fliewed us a model 

 in wood, according to the original defign; 

 and, had the building been completed upon 

 this plan, Barbadoes might have boafted a 

 college, vying in grandeur, and elegance of 

 ftruSure, with the greateft ornaments of the 

 celebrated univerfities of the mother-country. 

 The model, like the building, feeling the 

 deftrudlive effed of the climate, and of fad 

 negled:, was faft crumbling into a ftate, in 

 which it could only ferve to minifter duft 

 to the elements ! 



Twelve boys, only, are yet admitted on 

 the foundation, and thefe, inftead of occu- 

 pying any part of the college building, are 

 accommodated in the houfe of the mafter, 

 the parlour being converted into a kind of a 

 fchool-room, for the purpofe, 

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