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tures have ‘already appeared to: fully» his 
fame, and disfigure his performance. This 
library -contams more than : 30,000! vo- 
lumes,, and: many | cutiofities;\ among 
which are .a copy of \Newton’s Principia, 
with his own Corrections in the margin, 
and the original manu{cript ‘ef Milton’s 
€omus. ‘The books in«this library are 
fubjest to fimilarregulations in regard ’to 
the members of the college, with thofe of 
the public library in refpeét to the whole 
univerfity. This college has had the he- 
nour of enrolling among its members 
three men, wnofe equals have never been 
produced by any feminary in the world— 
Zord Bacon, Dr. Barrew, and Sir Ifzac 
Newton. | . 
The next college, in: point ef magni- 
tude as well as numbers; is St. John’s; 
which confifts of three courts, and is 
chiefly built of bricks. The library of 
this college is inferior only to that of Tri- 
nity, and the public library: it contains 
many fearce and valuable books, befides 
modern publications. ‘This college has 
produced a greater number, of fenior 
auranglers than any other in the univerfity. 
The walks are faid to have been laid out 
by the poet Prior: whether this be the 
eafe or not, their artlefs fimplicity, and 
their rural beauty, ‘certainly do credit to 
any talte. Pafling through thefe, and 
Jeaving Trinity on the left, we arrive at 
Clare-hall Piece, which, in fummer even- 
ings, exhibits a fine promenade ; where a 
band of mufic, provided by fub{criptions 
among the nobility and geptlemen of for- 
tune, plays three or four times 3 week, 
From this pieee, looxing towards the 
eait, a very fine view is aifurded by the 
noble and elegant new building of King’s- 
college, the welt front of the chapel, and 
Clare-hall: a view which, for archite&tu- 
ral beauty, can {carcely any where be ex- 
ceeded. Of King’s-chapel, that une- 
quailed fpecimen of the ornamental Go- 
thic, itis unneceflary to fay much, fince 
its celebrity is univerfal: it may never- 
thelefs be proper to obferve, that a new 
organ is ereéting, much more grand and 
powerful than the former. The chapel of 
Clare-hall is diftinguifhed for lightnefs 
and elegance: that at Pembroke hall is 
the work of Sir Chriftopher Wren, and is 
by no means difhonourable to the talents 
ofits architect. At the latter mentioned 
college, the great giobe erected by Dr. 
Long, is fhewn asacuriolity ; and a great 
curiofily it is. The diameter of this globe 
is eighteen feet: it is formed of fheets 
of iron riveted together, and is fo placed 
that its north pole is reétined for the lati- 
Account of Cambridge. 
[Feb.'1, 
tude of Cambridge. On the infide are 
painted the confteilations, and the princi= 
pal fixed tars, and the whole turns onan 
axis; by which it may eafily be made to 
reprefent the ftate of the heavens at any 
time. The entrance is by fteps over the 
fouth pole ; and the floor is furrounded by 
a feat, on which thirty perfons may fit 
conveniently. Since Dr. Long's: death, 
this globe has been much negleéted, and 
many parts of it fuffered to decay ; though 
it is faid the Doétor bequeathed a fufh- 
cient fum of money to the college in 
truit, to keep it in perpetual repair. The 
dilapidation of this globe is much to be 
lamented, not only becaule it is the largeft 
in the woild, but hecaafe it would ferve 
for the bei legturesrcem’, on allronomy 
that can he conceivedy. I  negleéted to 
obierve, in its proper place, that an ob- 
fervatory, which Sir Ifsac Newton ereéted 
over the gateway of Trinity-college, was 
taken down aj.few years ago; being out 
of repair, it was thought not worth while 
to be at any expence to renew it, as the 
fhaking of carriages palling by tended 
very much to diturb: the accuracy of ob- 
fervation. I éoafels [felt a regret whem 
I beheld the demolition of what to great @ 
man .uad-raifed, and could not forbear 
thinking ut hard, that a littl money 
might not.be annually expended toypre- 
ferve it to his memory; but the college 
judged, and, now think, very properly, 
that his fame could not be extended, nor 
his honour increafed, by the prefervation 
of that which was of little, or of doubt- 
ful, utility. ssf 
Te thofe who are at all acquainted with 
the hiftory of Englith literature, itas un- 
neceflary to point out the exalted rank 
which this untverfity has, at different pe- 
riods, held in all ttsdepartments. Nor 
will the readers ef the Monthly Magazine 
require an explicit enumeration of thofe 
luminaries of fcience, who have here been 
qualified to fhine with fo much Iuftre 3 
fince a tranfient elevation of the mind 
towards the firmament of learning is fuf- 
ficicat to behold them in their brightnets. 
And if, in former times, Cambridge 
could boalt of men, whofe eminent, abilt- 
ties have contributed to enlighten the 
world by their talents, to inftru& it by 
their difcoveries, and to improve it by 
their virtues ; fhe has alfo the happine!s 
of including among her prefent refident 
members, a Milner; a Vince, a Wood, a 
Farifh, a Jones, a Martyn, a Barnes, a 
Tyrwhitt, a Mari, a Davy, a Har- 
wood, a Jowett, a Craven, &c. &e. and 
in different parts of the kingdom, pro 
bably 
