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the continual lofs or cavalry to have been very heavy, in 
confequence of the almoft total ignorance or thofe who 
have hitherto had the veterinary department in the army. 
This report his majefty approved ; and henceforward, to 
qualify for the military fervice, a veterinary furgeon mull 
be provided with a regular diploma from this college. A 
number of gentlemen, fubfcribers to the inftitution, at¬ 
tend once a fortnight, for the purpofe of infpe&ing the 
difcipline of the ftables, and feeing that the regulations 
are duly complied with. 
Thefe form the moft material objects and regulations 
of the eftabliftiment; from which it is evident, that it is 
capable of being of great ufe and advantage, if properly 
directed, and confined to the points which it has princi¬ 
pally in view. We are informed, moreover, that a volume 
of the Tranfa&ions of the Society are publiftied annually, 
and prefented gratis to each fubfcriber. 
In different parts of the parifh are various fets of alms- 
lioufes, and fundry charity-fchools, among which we may 
mention the national fchool for 800 children near Eufton- 
fquare, and one at Kentifh-town for too. The female 
charity*fchool in the Hampftead-road, fupported by vo¬ 
luntary contributions, contains 70 girls, who are entirely 
ciothed, boarded, and educated. A national fchool is now 
in progrefs near Brewers-ftreet, Somers-town, which will 
accommodate 300 girls and as many boys. 
At the top of Tottenham-court-road, where the ICing’s- 
head public lioufe now Hands, there was a palace of king 
John’s, but of which there are now no remains. And at 
Kentifh Town, near the Caftle-tavern, is the building 
(now a private houfe) which was formerly king John’s 
dog-kennel. 
Two miles from Tottenham-court-road, towards 
Hampftead, on t)ie left hand, is Chalk-farm, of duelling 
notoriety. 
The Regent’s Canal paffes through this parifh from the 
Regent’s Park to White Conduit Houfe, where the tun¬ 
nel begins, which goes under Illington on its way to the 
Thames. Its courfe is between Camden and Kentifh 
Towns : there are fix bridges and two locks in the dif- 
tance of one* mile. See the article Paddington, p. 183. 
The barracks lately erefted for the reception of the 
life-guards are in this parifh : they are ntuated on the 
banks of a branch of the canal which runs up to the bafon 
at the Jew’s Harp, near Portland Place. 
At a place called the Brill, on which part of Somers- 
town is built, was an entrenchment, fuppofed by Dr. 
Stukeley to have been the camp of Julius Csefar; but 
others think it by far more modern, and nobody knows 
to whom it really belonged. 
Bagnigge-wells, fituated in this parifn, has been no¬ 
ticed under Islington, vol. xi. Another mineral fpring 
near Pancras-church was formerly in great repute, but is 
now abandoned. The water of this fpring was fimilarin 
its properties and effefls to that of St. Chad’s Well, near 
Battle-bridge, which is ftili heldin confiderable eftimaticn 
for its diuretic and aperient qualities. 
Caen-wood or Ken-wood, the beautiful feat of the earl 
of Mansfield, is fituate at the northern extremity of the 
parifh, between Hampftead and Righgate. The manfion, 
though hidden from the notice of palfengers on thf road, 
is delightfully and fantalticaliy fituate in the wood by 
which it is completely furrounded. The plealure-greunds 
and gardens are moft taftefully laid out; the judicious 
arrangement of wood, water, and pleafure-ground, make 
it indefcribably beautiful. It is impoftible to do it juftice 
in defeription ; it is a perfect terreftrial paradife, and muft 
be feen before it will appear credible that there fhould be 
fiuch a charming and retired fpot fo near London, the 
diftance being little more than three miles. This place 
was purchafed, in 1755, of the earl of Bute, by the firft 
earl of Mansfield, then attorney-general, who improved 
the whole, with great elegance, after the defigns of the 
celebrated architects of the Adelphi. The grand front, 
which is near the fide of the road leading from Highgate 
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to Hampftead, is eppofite the wood that giv$s name to the 
houfe. The garden-front, which is more extenfive than 
the other, commands a fine view of rich meadows, falling 
in a gentle defeent, and relieved by fome noble pieces of 
water, (the refervoirs of the Hampftead water-works,) 
that fupply part of the metropolis : this view is termi¬ 
nated by the fpires of London, and the diftant hills of 
Kent. The moft remarkable room in the houfe is the 
library, a beautiful apartment, fixty feet by twenty-one, 
defigned by Adam, and ornamented with paintings, by 
Zucchi. In this room is a whole-length of the firft earl 
by Martin, and a fine buft of him by Nollekens. There is 
another buft of his lordfhip, when young, in the hall; 
one of fir Ifaac Newton ; and the antique buft of Homer, 
which was bequeathed to the firft lord Mansfield by Pope. 
In the breakfaft-parlour, is a buft of Pope, and a portrait 
of fir Chriftophet 1 Hatton. In the other rooms are fome 
portraits, well deferving of notice; particularly thofe of 
Pope, Garrick, the duchefs of Queenfberry, and a good 
head of Betterton, the tragedian, faid to be by Pope, wlio 
had been inftru&ed in the art of painting by his friend 
Jarvis; two landlcapes, fuppofed by Claude; a piece by 
Teniers; and Wilkie’s Village Politicians. Here, too, 
are fome fine portraits, among which is the picture of 
lord Mansfield, by fir JofliuaReynolds, from which a well- 
known engraving has been made. The mufic-room was 
painted by Julius Ibbetfon, and exhibits, in pannels, the 
various operations of agriculture, (fancifully reprefented 
as carried on by unattired children,) interfperfed with 
views in North-Wales, fweetly delineated. The pleafure- 
grounds, including the wood which gives name to the 
place, contain about fifty acres. The fituation is naturally 
beautiful; and the hand of art has been fuccefsfully em¬ 
ployed in making them ftili more piffurefque. On the 
right of the garden-front of the houle, is a hanging-wood 
of tall fpreading trees ; and, on the left, the rifing hills 
are planted with clumps, that produce a pleafing effedt. 
A fine flirubbery immediately before this front, and a 
Terpentine piece of water, render the whole a very en¬ 
livening fcene. Hornfey great woods, held by the earl of 
Mansfield under the bifliop of London, join this eftate on 
the north, and have been lately added to the inclolures. 
It muft be here noticed, as a circumftance of local intereft, 
that Venner, the fanatic, who created a difturbance at the 
head of the fifth monarchy-men, in January 1661, fought 
a retreat with his followers, for a ftiort time, in Ken 
Wood. 
Near this place, at Highgate, is Holly Lodge, the beau¬ 
tiful feat of Mr. Coutts, the banker. Wilkes's Briti/h 
Directorp, vol. v. Wakefield's Perambulations in London. 
Ambulator. Lambert's Hift. of London , vol. iv. Lyfons's 
Environs of London, vol. iii. 1795. and Supplement, 1811. 
Private Communications, Nov. 1830. 
PANCR A'TIAN VER'SE, the name of a fort of Greek 
verfe, confifting of two trochees and a fupernumerary 
fyllable : (psvye XoiIt is fo caLled from its fuppofed 
inventor Pancrates, who is faid to have lived in the time 
of Alexander the Great. 
PANCRAT'IC, or Pancratical, adj. [from the Gr. 
irett, all, and xpalo;, power.] Excelling in all the gym- 
naftic exercifes.—He was the moft pancratical man of 
Greece, and, as Galen reportet’n, able to perfift erefit upon 
an oily plank, and not to be removed by the force of three 
men. Brown. —Arrived to a full pancratick habit, fit for 
combats and wreftlings. Hammond. 
PANCRATIUM, f [Greek ; compounded of wav, all, 
and xpaTE«, I overcome.] Among the ancients, a kind of 
intermixed exercife, confifting of the India, or wreftling, 
and the pugilate, or boxing. The pancratium was the 
third gymnaftic exercife, and was not introduced till long 
after the others. The people, who were engaged in thele 
exercifes, were called pancratiaftce ; which name was alfo 
given to fuch as did not confine themfelves to one ex¬ 
ercife, but lucceeded in feveral different ones. 
As this exercife partook both of the ceejlus and the puli’, 
as 
