Letters from England, Volume 2 (of 3)

Transcriber's Note:
This work is by Robert Southey. It is a fictitious account of an imaginary Spanish nobleman travelling through England.
Obvious printer errors have been corrected. Hyphenation has been rationalised. Inconsistent spelling (including accents and capitals) has been retained.
BY DON MANUEL ALVAREZ ESPRIELLA. TRANSLATED FROM THE SPANISH.
IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. THIRD EDITION.
LONDON: PRINTED FOR LONGMAN, HURST, REES, ORME, AND BROWN, PATERNOSTER-ROW.
1814.
Edinburgh: Printed by James Ballantyne and Co.

ESPRIELLA'S LETTERS FROM ENGLAND.
High-street, Oxford.—Dress of the Oxonians.—Christ Church Walk.—Friar Bacon's Study.—Lincoln College.—Baliol.—Trinity.—New College.—Saint John's.—Mode of Living at the Colleges.—Servitors.—Summer Lightning.
D. has a relation at one of the colleges, to whom he dispatched a note immediately upon our arrival. By the time tea was ready he was with us. It must be admitted, that though the English are in general inhospitable towards foreigners, no people can be more courteous to those who are properly introduced. The young student told us that he should show us the University with as much pleasure as we could see it; for he had abstained from visiting many things himself, till he should have a lion to take with him. Upon enquiring the meaning of this strange term, I found that I was a lion myself; it is the name for a stranger in Oxford.