The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ersconvenient thereto ; and in like wise from thence by thewater side, and about the gardens, and all the precincte ofliie place round about by the highway, until it come to thecloyster end, on the west side.— And as touching the di-mensions of the housing of my said College, I have devisedthat the south wall of the precincte of the same shall con-taine in length 1440 feet of assize, the est wall 1200 feete ofHSMz
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ersconvenient thereto ; and in like wise from thence by thewater side, and about the gardens, and all the precincte ofliie place round about by the highway, until it come to thecloyster end, on the west side.— And as touching the di-mensions of the housing of my said College, I have devisedthat the south wall of the precincte of the same shall con-taine in length 1440 feet of assize, the est wall 1200 feete ofHSMze, the north wall 1040 feete of assize, and the westwall 1010 feete of assize, &c. &c. * And, it is added, I will that the edification of my said College of Eton pro-ceed in large forme, cleane and substantially, well replenishedwith goodly windowes and vaults, laying apart superfluitiesof too great curious workes of entaile and busy to the last part of the founders wishes, we findthe present building characterised by a noble simplicity. Itconsists of two quadrangles. The chapel is a fine Gothicstruoture, ornamented with pinnacles and PYRAMIDS, OR DEVILs ARROWS, NEAR BGROUGHBRIDGEy YORKSHIRE, A LITTLE westward of the bridge stand these stupendousmonuments of antiquity: their latter name they probablyobtained during the dark ages of superstition ; they arethree large stones, of a pyramid form, fluted towards thetop, and stand nearly in a line from North to South. In theyear 170J), the ground about the centre one was opened ninefeet wide ; at first a good soil was found, about a foot deep,and then a course of stones of several sorts, laid in a bed ofcoarse grit and clay, near two yards deep from the surface ;a little lower was the bottom of the stone, resting upon clay :the entire height of this Pyramid is thirty-six feet six country people have a tradition, that Severus, dying atYork, left the empire to his two sons, Carracalla and G
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