The classical descriptive ‘rus in urbe’ has a powerful charm for the imagination: it implies the attraction of rarity, the force of contrast, and promises all that is delicious in the centre of all that is odious.

There are several spots in our town which merit this praise; but no where perhaps is it more literally applicable than in the instance submitted to view; and a partial admirer might be disposed to adopt the sentiment of a Jersey householder, who, enamoured of his garden, has set up over the entrance this motto,

The scene presented to view is that of a ‘terra incognita’ to all but a few: the reader therefore is informed that he is to suppose himself in the Fellows' Garden of Caius College.

Now, as far as the cause relating to the attractions of this College has been pleaded before the public, only the evidence against us has been given. It is Carter's testimony that “This College being surrounded with lanes on three sides and the street, in the Founder's time called ‘vicus major’, on the east, cannot be thought to contain much garden ground: yet besides the garden belonging to the Master, the Fellows have a small one, or rather orchard; and the court next the street (for it has three) is handsomely planted with lime-trees.”