Here is a good garden, an admirable bowling-green, a beautiful summer-house, at the back of which is a walk, agreeably winding, with variety of trees and shrubs intertwining, and forming, the whole length, a fine canopy over head; with nothing but singing, and fragrance, and seclusion; a delightful summer retreat; the sweetest lover's or poet's walk, perhaps, in the University. So our traveller is left to his own meditation.

Having never looked into the library of this college but once, and then very rapidly, I was in danger of overlooking it. So I just whisper to my traveller, that the Library is a small neat-built room, corresponding to the other parts of the college. It communicates with the Master's Lodge, and has in it, I understand, some good printed books, and a few MSS. So I leave my traveller again to his meditations.

P.S. I have omitted one of the best classical scholars of this college, Thomas Twining, A. M. 1763. He published a Translation of Aristotle's Treatise on Poetry, with Notes on the Translation and on the Original, and Two Dissertations on Poetical and Musical Imitation; all of which (together with his Preface) discover equal sagacity, erudition, and taste. It was published in 1789. I was mistaken as to Mr. T.'s college, and thought he had already been mentioned.

DOWNING COLLEGE.

Now we are approaching the very last, though not the
very least of the family of our Alma Mater: For Down-
ing, it appears, aspires to be great among her daughters.
From the manner in which the last chapter was word-
ed, our readers would conclude that we intended to close
with it; and, indeed, so it was intended: but from infor-
mation just received, that the artist had provided a plate
for this college, it becomes necessary to furnish a history.
A few materials for it, indeed, had been prepared; but
the work had so grown upon our hands, that in consult-
ing brevity, it seemed expedient to reserve those materials,
with other appendices, for some future opportunity.

Sed non fata sinunt.

The founder, then, of this college was Sir George Downing, of Gamlingay, in Bedfordshire, of an ancient family, that first settled in the county of Essex, where Geffry Downing had an estate at Poles Beldham in that county. His ancestor, Dr. Calybut Downing, was competitor for the wardenship of All Soul's College, Oxford (which, however, was obtained by Dr. Gil