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Geography was (aught in connection with Geometry. Thalcs had 

 ah'eady made use of geographic tablets (^TrnctKSi), on which countries 

 appear to be marked with great accuracy. Of course, the geographical 

 knowledge of the Greeks was limited and defective. Anaximander, (about 

 570 A. C.) is said to have first described the circumference (Trs^iju-sr^og) 

 of the earth and sea, to have declared the earth to be speroidal and 

 the central point of the world, and to have constructed a terrestrial 

 globe." 



Olhcr interesting facts might be mentioned, but as we design rather 

 to direct the attention to the sources than to exhaust the subject, we will 

 conclude. We sum up by recommending very earnestly the study of 

 the Greek language, which itself is a most extraordinary production of 

 the human mind, embodying thought brought out to an unsurpassed, un- 

 equalled extent, expressing every variety of human conception with the 

 richest shades of meaning. No employment can be more profitable to 

 the human intellect than this study, we do not mean the superficial 

 study, but the thorough study of the great masters who have written in 

 this language. We name Homer, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripi- 

 des, Aristophanes, Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Plato, Aristotle, 

 Demosthenes, Aeschines, Lysias, and Isocrates. Let them be studied 

 by day and by night, in youth, manhood, and old age, at home and 

 abroad, and then will we not only know what Grecian Education was 

 and what it produced, but educated ourselves by Grecian mind, we will 

 rot found the claim to a blissful immortality on the literary eminence of 

 these men, nor ask in the language of a corrupt Christianity, Holy So- 

 crates pray for us ; but we will ascribe the best part of our intellectual 

 histruction to these master-minds, and believe that God in his provi- 

 dence made Greece what it was; that it might exert upon all future gen- 

 erations a salutary influence, and contribute largely to his own glory by 

 refining and improving the noble faculties with which he has endowed 

 that noble image of himself, placed at the head of his creation in this 

 worUI, man. 



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JJmifran Hall. — The ceremonies connected with the laying of the 

 corner-stone will take place on Thursday the 23d inst. as announced 

 in the last number of the Record and Journal. As we stated some 

 time since that the Hon. Geo. M. Dallas had consented to deliver an ora- 

 tion on the occasion, and as he has since recalled his promise, we deem 

 it proper to mention the fact, lest we should appear to have made a false 



