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c. To walk through Oxford is to walk through history. Nowhere else in
England
is so much history, so much tradition and such a wealth of fine
architecture to be found in a comparatively small area. Modern Oxford
is a paradox, trying to be very different places at once; it is on the one
hand
a busy industrial town, with its economy especially concerned with
the manufacture of motor cars and its vision fixed on the future; at the
same time it is one of the two leading university cities of the British
Commonwealth, with its roots fixed in the past.
d. Walking around the city of Edinburgh
is almost like visiting two
different cities very close to each other. To walk around the heart of
the Old Town and the New Town will take about an hour at a reasonable
walking pace. If you want to see more, it will naturally take longer. How
much longer will depend on whether you are content to admire buildings
from the outside or whether you wish to see what delights they contain.
e. Modern Cambridge has been described as “perhaps
the only true
university town in England”. University and college buildings provide
nearly all the outstanding architectural features. The city has a lot
of commons and other open spaces, including the University Botanic
Gardens and the Backs. The Backs are the landscaped lawns and gardens
through which the River Cam winds behind
the main line of colleges,
and under a series of magnificent bridges of which the Bridge of Sighs,
the stone bridge of Clare with thick stone balls on the parapets, and the
so-called “Mathematical Bridge” are among the best known.
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