1833-36 
VISIT TO ETON 
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young gentlemen have, 1 will describe. They 
are limited to a single room each, in which there 
is a turn-up bed, with their chest of drawers and 
Wash-stand ; two or three chairs, a small table, 
reading stand, and book-case complete the furni- 
ture. My room looked into the same garden as 
George’s. ‘ Mydelton ’ cut on the bedstead indi- 
cated the previous possessor. . . . The dames’ 
houses are all situated within the College, and 
built with a view of rendering escape from them 
as difficult and detectable as possible. The en- 
trance to them from the street is by a long, low, 
and narrow passage, but the house itself is sur- 
rounded by gardens, which have high walls 
separating them from the fields ; the windows of 
such of the rooms as might afford any outlet are 
barred and grated. . . . After dinner, went to 
bear the speeches of the scholars elected to 
King’s College, Cambridge, spoken before the 
Provost of the College. On this occasion he sits 
in the Master’s seat and takes precedence of him. 
The boys are in full dress and step out into a 
clear space in front of the Provost, behind whom 
nre a series of raised seats for visitors. We were 
admitted on the floor, and sat behind the Fellows 
of Eton. It was a very interesting sight ; the 
Speeches were in Latin and Greek, selected from 
different classical authors. When that was over 
We proceeded to walk to the river side to see a 
procession of the boys in boats. They go up the 
