His Excellency staying this day at _Prague_, I took that opportunity of viewing every thing I could of that noble city, which is thought to be the largest in Germany. It is inclosed with one intire wall, two third parts of which are regularly divided into curtains and bastions; but the remaining third is old and defenceless. Tho indeed the whole town is commanded by ascending ground, that no fortification can make it long defensible. The _Muldaw_, a large and rapid river, divides it into two parts, which are again joined by a fair and stately bridge of stone, seventeen hundred feet long and thirty five broad, supported by twenty four arches. Both parts of the city are adorned with great variety of magnificent buildings, the most remarkable of which I visited in this order. Adjoining to the _Star_ inn, where his Excellency lodged, is the new convent of Irish _Cordeliers_; and in the same neighbourhood are two seminaries, one called that of the _Archbishop_, and the other that of _St. Norbert_, patron of this kingdom; both which profess academical learning, but in societies distinct from the university of the place. Hence the way leads us to the townhouse, a large and stately building, which at one corner has a piece of clock work, giving the motions of the seven planets. On one side of this opens a fair piazza, with two curious pieces of workmanship. The first of these is a statue of the _B. Virgin_ trampling on the _Dragon_, erected on a stone pillar, on the pedestal of which are four _Angels_ defeating the like venomous monsters. This implies a triumphant declaration of her immaculate conception, and imitates that work before observed at _Vienna_. The second curiosity is a fountain of carved marble, with a basin of twelve sides, on which are cut very beautifully the twelve signs of the _Zodiac_. From hence we pass to a college of Jesuits, a noble and spatious building. The church is a fine fabric, and prodigiously rich; the cloister large, and adorned with agreable pictures; among the rest are large tables divided into little squares, containing the short history and pourtraiture of the eminent persons of their order for preaching, missions, and conversions, among whom are a great number of English. The same way leads us to the bridge above mentioned, and thence to another college of the Jesuits; but the third, and most splendid of this order, is in that part of _Prague_ called the new city, which we had not an opportunity of seeing.