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in the year, free of cost to the pupils. To this may be added a Normal 

 School ; three departments are organized in the University, viz : — sci- 

 ence and art, medicine, agricultural and mechanical art, including natu- 

 ral history, chemistry, &c. The following statistics are brought down 

 to December 31, 1851: 



Disbursements of the State for the University, since 1837,. . . $286,928 



School Fund invested, (annually increasing from sale of lauds,) 81 1,000 



School Districts, 3,307 



Children residing in do, . 143,222 



" attending school, 115,165 



Paid to teachers, 1851,... $154,469 



Volumes in township libraries, 97,1 68 



A mill tax is annually levied to purchase books for these libraries. 

 Both the University and primary schools own large tracts of land, the 

 proceeds of which, as sold, are funded. 



The University is located at Ann Arbor, the Normal School at Ypsi- 

 lanti, and both possess handsome, substantial, and convenient buildings. 

 A good library and museum belong to the University. 



Besides these, there are forty academies, theological institutions, lite- 

 rary societies, &c., incorporated by act of the Legislature, and a number 

 of private seminaries not so incorporated. 



There exists a general plank-road law, and such roads are now made 

 or being made, in all directions. 



There is a railroad in the south, commencing at Toledo, 0., and Mon- 

 roe, Mich., both on Lake Erie, and running partly through Michigan, 

 partly through Indiina, to Chicago. It connects with the Ohio rail- 

 roads, and these with the New Yoik Southern Railroad. It was com- 

 menced by the State, but is now owned by a New York companj.. 

 There is no finished canal in the State. 



The fisheries upon the Upper and Lower Lakes are of great impor- 

 tance, those for catching trout and whitefish* especially. The whitefish 

 are migratory, living in Lake Erie, and in the fall of the year proceeding 



•Trout, Salmo amelhystes (Min.); whitefish, Corregontia albus (Los). Brstdes these, the 

 most Tiiluable ari" iiickercl, Lucioperca Americana; pike, Esox reticulatus; mnskelnnKC, £, 

 tstor; fattish, Timelodus catus; hprriii);, Hijiidin tergisus; stur(fcon, Shirio maculosua, 

 (erowinp to six or seven foet lonp.) and siskowit, a spoccs of salmon. A marked pecuharity 

 of most of 1 he Lake fish is the iiimntit.v of /<i(, resi mliliin that of quadrupeds, which they 

 contain— entirely dflerent from tlic salt-wiiter fish. While ilieir ttavor difl(;rg from that of 

 the latter, it is much more delicate and riclier than that of river fish. Tho brook trout is 

 found in abundance in tlie LaliC Superior country. Eels arc unknown. 



