conduct ; and to guard and proteft them from the fatal effe&s of th' ■ diffi* 
pation and diffolutenefs of manners, which is too apt to prevail in larger towns, 
and where the conduit of individuals cannot be fo particularly recognized,. 
Whatever the cathedral and canonry may have loft in fplendor as an 
evangelical eftablifhment, by the devaftations attending the hafty and entire 
change of the inftitutions of religion, which occurred here about a hundred and 
fifty years ago; it has not fuflfered in its capacity, as a feat and feminary of 
learning: the profeffors chairs are filled with men of ability, and ftudious to 
djfcharge the important duty of the inftrudtion of youth, with an affiduity and 
zeal worthy of an enlightened rera, and the interefting office which they have 
in charge. 
From the fituation of the college, a kind of retirement is enjoyed, every way 
favourable to erudition : equally at a diftance from the buftle of a commercial 
city, and the diffipations of a crowded and a gay one, that more thorough difengage- 
ment and tranquillity is indulged, fo dfential to the deliberate inveftigation of the 
principles of fcience, and to the fuccefsful profecution of the difeoveries of 
philofophy. 
