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King's Coll. Chapel. The Public Library, & The Senate House, Camb.

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Containing, correct and comprehenfive defcriptions of the
Public Buildings, Colleges, Churches, Curiofities, &c. &c.
Alfo a concife account of the different Orders, Degrees,
Ceremonies, and Offices of the Univerfity; a lift of the
present University Officers; and a variety of articles of ge-
neral utility.

Cambridge;

PRINTED BY M. WATSON.

PRINTED FOR AND SOLD BY J. NICHOLSON, TRUMPING-
TON-STREET; AND BY F. AND C. RIVINGTON,

ST. PAUL'S CHURCH YARD, LONDON.

ADVERTISEMENT.

As the public are already in poffeffion of a Defcription of Cambridge, the present publication may be deemed fuperfluous; the Editor therefore thinks it neceffary to explain his reasons for undertaking. it. His principal motive is to furnish strangers with a Guide, more correct and more generally ufeful, than any work of the kind that has preceded it; to effect which, he has reforted to the most approved works, and drawn his information on the respective subjects from the most indisputable fources. The Editor was also ftimulated with a wish to render his little tract more particularly adapted to the defign of fuch a publication; he has therefore omitted many articles which appeared tedious and uninteresting, if not useless; and has, on the other hand, added feveral pieces of intelligence, of univerfal advantage and utility:

as for inftance, in the long catalogues of paintings contained in the Colleges and Lodges he has noticed thole only more efpecially worthy of obfervation; and it must also be allowed, that the long lifts of Bishops, &c. who have been educated here, can afford little entertainment to those who visit the University; therefore, the names of those only who have distinguished themselves as Authors, or otherwise, have been selected for the New Cambridge Guide. Laftly, in order to render the publication more extenfively convenient, it is published at a much cheaper rate than any other extant ; and the Editor has been careful to include every article that can intereft or amufe, without encumbering it with tedious and unnecessary subjects, which might swell the volume; or filling it with engravings, which would ferve to render it expenfive.

If his endeavours have attained their purpose ; that of affifting those who vifit Cambridge, to view the different objects with the greatest pleasure and convenience; his wishes will be fatisfied and his intention answered.

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