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call it, with an arching joints 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 ^rcte quite removed. There is 
alfo much foch another roof over a little Oratory or Cbappel in the 
Church of North Leigh in this County, 
138. As for arched roofs jlone^ thzt of the Divinity School 
is a fine piece of Architecture ; and fo is that of the ftately slair- 
cafe leading into C hriH-Church great hall. The Phyfickgarden gate 
is a curious piece of rujlickrockr^ork ; and the Portch at St. Mariesi^ 
the Vniverfity Churchy is a well contrived thing. And were it not 
improper amongft thefe to mention a ftru^ure of fo inferior a qua- 
lity, as New C ollegehoxxftof Eafement-, commonly called the long- 
koufe^ 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 Eajl and Wefl fides of the New Qua- 
drangle zt St. yohns College^ built by the moft Reverend Father in 
God, Ifilliam Laud Arch-Bifliop of Canterbury^ fupported with 
■pillars of Blechington Marble, are well worthy notice ; and fo is 
the Cloyfter at Magdalen College^ the Buttereffes without being 
curioufly adorned with Hieroglyphical Imagery. 
140. The ereO; Southern declining J)ial over ^11 Souls College 
Chappel, is a neat piece of work, fo curioufly contrived by Sir 
Chrijlopher Wren^ that though it fland high, yet by the help of twd 
half rays^ and one whole one for every hour^ one may fee to a mi^ 
nute whatit isac/of^^ the being depi^led on the fides of 
the rays^ viz^. 1 5 on each fide, and divided into five^ by a diffe- 
rent character from the reft. 
141 . The Cylindrical Dyal in Corpus Chrijii College Quadrangle^ 
fet at right angles with the Horizon (the common fe^ions whereof, 
mth the hour circles (except the Meridian circle which divides it 
by the axis) as alfo the /Equino^ial^ are all Ellipfes) is a fine old 
piece of Gnomonicks ; of which no more, becaufe its Contriver 
Mr. Robert Heggs^ Fellow of the College^ has already written of it 
And the Pidf/xmade upon a pile of Booh on New College Mounts 
with on the top, exaftly pointing out from what Quarter 
the wind blows, upon the 32 Points of the Compafs^ depided on 
^ Traii. de Horologihj Lib. ^, cap. ^. MS'inBiblioth.Z.CC. 
