Oxford opens to view 2 mile off, its Scituation is ffine on a Round hill Environ’d Round with hills adorn’d with Woods and Enclosures, yet not so neare as to annoy y^e town which stands pleasant and Compact. There is a ffine Causy for neare two mile by the Road for the Schollars to walke on, y^e Theater stands the highest of all and much in y^e middle Encompass’d with y^e Severall Colledges and Churches and other Buildings whose towers and Spires appeares very Well at a Distance; the Streetes are very Cleane and well Pitched and pretty broad. The high Streete is a very Noble one, soe Larg and of a Greate Length. In this is y^e University Church Called S^t Maryes, which is very large and Lofty but Nothing very Curious in it. The Theater is a Noble Pile of building, its Paved with Black and White Marble, exceeding Large and Lofty, built Round and Supported by its own architecture all stone, noe pillars to support it; itt has windows all round and full of Gallery’s ffor the Spectators as well as Disputants when y^e acts are at Oxford. Over the Rooff of this Large Roome are as Large roomes with Severall Divissions which are Used for the Drying the Printed Sheetes of bookes, and this has Light in Ovalls which is quite Round the Theater and in the Middle is a large Cupelow or Lanthorne Whence your Eye has a very ffine view of y^e whole town and Country; this is all Supported on its own work. Under the theater is a roome w^{ch} is ffitted for printing, where I printed My name Severall tymes. The outside of y^e theater there is a pavement and spikes of Iron in a Raile round with pillars of stone to secure it from the street. Just by it is a little building w^{ch} is full of Antiquityes w^{ch} have many Curiositys in it of Mettles, Stones, Ambers, Gumms. There is the picture of a Gentleman y^t was a Great benefactor to it being a travailer; the fframe of his picture is all wood carved very finely with all sorts of figures, Leaves, birds, beast and flowers. He gave them 2 ffine gold Meddals or Silve gilt w^{th} two ffine great Chaines of the same, one was all curious hollow worke w^{ch} were given him by some prince beyond the Sea. There is a Cane which looks like a Solid heavy thing but if you take it in yo^r hands its as light as a feather, there is a Dwarfe shoe and boote, there are several Loadstones, and it is pretty to See how y^e steele Clings or follows it, hold it on the top att some distance the needles stand quite upright, hold it on either side it moves towards it as it rises and falls.