80 TRAVELS IN THE CONFEDERATION 



the manners of the savages than they do to civilization. 

 Although this Indian establishment was abandoned as 

 fruitless, the college proper still goes on, where the 

 higher sciences are taught, and besides this there is at 

 the present time no other College in the southern 

 provinces. At this university there are now 7 Pro- 

 fessors, one for divinity, one for law, one for medicine, 

 and the others teach languages, philosophy, and the 

 mathematics. The Professor of Physic is Dr. 

 Maclurg, the author of an excellent treatise on the 

 gall. The number of those studying here is about 50. 

 Some of them live in commodious rooms in the Col- 

 lege, the others lodge and board in the town, paying 

 36-40 Pd. Virginia a year. The total annual expense of 

 a student can be met for 100 Pd. Virginia (333 Span, 

 dollars). Doctors in all the faculties are graduated; 

 but most of the students complete their training at the 

 English and Scottish universities, preferring to make 

 the highest degrees there. 



Midway of the chief thoroughfare on the south side, 

 stands a little six-cornered building, surrounded by a 

 wall, which was formerly an arsenal ; and over against 

 this is the Court-house. Both buildings stand a little 

 back from the street so as to form a Square, from 

 which one has a view of the most important buildings 

 and the finest part of the town. The palace of the one- 

 time Governors, also on the north side of the principal 

 street, lies in ruins ; this was a large and handsome 

 building; but through the negligence of the American 

 troops quartered there after the siege of York was set 

 a-fire, although there are those who say it was done by 

 Loyalists. Williamsburg is now a poor place com- 

 pared with its former splendor. With the removal of 



