ORNAMENTAL GROUNDS AT HAMILTON COLLEGE. 



Observatory, E. If 

 we stop at tbis last 

 named edifice, and 

 acsend tbe tower, we 

 sball bebold a land- 

 scape of great varie- 

 ty and beauty. Not 

 far from tbe base of 

 tbis building, tbe bill 

 slopes gently down 

 to tbe valley of tbe 

 Oriskany. Yonder, 

 several miles to tbe 

 nortb, tbis valley 

 unites witb tbe Mo- 

 bawk, from vvbieb 

 you see tbe mist 

 rising. Lookino; still 

 furtber, in tbe same 

 direction, among tbe 

 blue bills near Rome, 

 you discover a storm 

 raging ; wbile at the 

 east, the Trenton Cte^ 

 hills, some twenty 

 miles off, are bathed 

 in sunshine. At the 

 south and west, you 

 see other hills and 

 plains, not wanting 

 in interest and beau- 

 ty. Before leaving 

 tbis fine post of ob- 

 servation, whether of 

 the heavens above or 

 the earth beneath, let 

 us appoint another 

 visit here a year plan of gkounds at nAsniTON college. 



hence, when, the new telescope (the first large instrument of the kind ever made in 

 tbis country,) being mounted, and a transit instrument and clock obtained, we shall 

 be able to entertain you longer and better at this point in our grounds. 



Passing now in a south-westerly course, in the rear of the Colleges, we come 

 Gymnasium, G ; and to the Mineralogical Cabinet, F ; in each of which places we 



