"Of course I edited the Granta for a year," he would say, "

In 1745, he took his degree of Bachelor of Arts; and in the ensuing year, with a heavy heart, and with some fear lest he should grow old 'in northern clime,' bade farewell to Granta in an Ode, which commemorates the virtues of his tutor, Dr. Powell.

One of our first acts was to order a four-oared boat to be built, fitted with a lug-sail: she was called the Granta of Swansea.