Ambulator: or, a pocket companion in a tour round London, within the circuit of twenty five miles. Describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty: including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations / to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described.

Date:
1793
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Ambulator: or, a pocket companion in a tour round London, within the circuit of twenty five miles. Describing whatever is most remarkable for antiquity, grandeur, elegance, or rural beauty: including new catalogues of pictures, and illustrated by historical and biographical observations / to which are prefixed a concise description of the metropolis, and a map of the country described. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    difpofition of tlie Mufeum in the prefent building, eredled on purpofe for its reception, appears to have well merited his good fortune. Another Museum, confifting of anatomical preparations, and natural curiofitics, collefted by the late Dr. William Hunter, who built a fpacious edifice for their reception, in Windmill Street, Haymarlcet, is now open to the pub- lic, and is to continue fo for thirty years from the time of his death in 1783. In a large volume, devoted folely to the Metropolis, we might have given a minute defcription of the Inns of Courts, the Colleges, the Societies of Artifts and Learned Men, Public Schools, the Places of Diverfion, the. Public Halls, Hofpitals, and Prifons. But as the principal defign of this Work is to ferve as a com- panion to the reader, in his excurfions into the country round London, our limits will not permit us to be more copious : and we fhall, therefore, mention the principal remaining objedts in the Metropolis in a very curlory way. Of the Inns of Court, or Societies for the Study of the Law, the principal are the Middle and Inner Temples, Lincoln’s Inn, and Gray’s Inn. Thefe are very fpacious, and have large gardens, which, at certain times of the day, are open to the public. The others are Clifford’s Inn, Clement’s Inn, Serjeants Inn, New Inn, Lyon’s Inn, Bar- nard’s Inn, Furnival’s Inn, and Staples Inn. The College of Phyficians, unfortunately hidden in War- wick Lane, was built by Sir Chrillopher Wren. Q;i the top of the dome is a gilt ball, and on the fummit of the centre is the cock, the bird of .^fculapius.—Greiliam College, erefted in 1581, by Sir 1 homas Grefham, for feven Profeilorsin divinity, civil law, aftronomy, geometry, rhetoric, phyfic, and mufic, flood on the fitc of ilie-Excife Office. But, in 1768, the reading of the leAures was re- moved to a room over the Royal Exchange, and the Pro- feffors were allowed an additional 50I. a year, in lieu of their apartments in the College. Taefe profelforfhips are now mere finecures.—Sion College, near London Wall, was founded, in 1603, by the Rev. Thomas White. It is governed by a PreliJcnt, two Deans, and four Afliftants; and all the Clergy within the bills of mortality are its Fel- lows,