CHAPTER II.

OXFORD TO ABINGDON.--_By D. MACCOLL._

Oxford, from the Upper River; the New Town--The Courses of the River, from Medley Weir to Folly Bridge--The Houses of the Regulars and Friars--The University and Parish Churches--The Halls and Colleges of the Seculars, from the Thirteenth Century to the Reformation--Jacobean Oxford--Classic Oxford--Convenient Oxford--The Architectural Revival--The Undergraduate Revival--The River below Folly Bridge, and the Invention of Rowing--The Navigation Shape of the River--Floods--The Barges--Iffley--Littlemore--Kennington--Radley--Sandford--Nuneham 33