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ajnd Improving it in its beft principles and 

 operations. 



Natural philosophy in all its branches, 

 (except Chemidry) — including Opics, PneumaticSy 

 Bydrcftotics^ Afironomyy FJe5lridty, &c., — or thedif- 

 coveries relating to Vifioriy Air^ IVater, the Hea- 

 venly Bodies , Tde5iricFire^ &c — and attended with 

 experiments, on Miaofcopes, 'Tele/copeSy Air- 

 Pumps, Fire- Engines y Orreries ^ Ele£lric Machines 

 &c. will form a very large and important part of 

 the propofed plan. 



Chemistry will be a province by itfelf. Its 

 extent, and reference to fo many of the arts^ on 

 which our manufoMures depend, entitle it to this 

 difiinclion. Here, will be confidered, the ele- 

 mentary principles of bodies^ the nature of Fire 

 Air-, Acids, &c. And the whole will have a re- 

 ference to the arts of Dyeing, Bleaching, &c. which 

 depending upon chemical principles, micrht 

 probably, by the knowledge of thofe principles, 

 be very greatly extended and improved. 



The MATHEMATICS, including Geometry, Trigo^ 

 notnetry. Conic Sections, Algebra, &c. would fuffici- 

 ently fill another department, of the importance 

 of which no detail is here neceflary. 



A SCHEME, THUS FILLED UP, would, we flatter 

 ourfelves, comprize the principal objecfts, mofl 

 defirable in a seminary of liberal instruc- 

 tion. If, however, it (hould be found proper 

 to add to thcfe, other branches of fcience, fuch 



