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of what he heard, read and saw; the questions agitated in the 
discussions of the senior class, with the decisions of the president 
upon them, are recorded in his note-book, as are the texts and 
doctrines of the sermons in the college chapel ; and. there are 
memoranda, but less extensive, of the topics canvassed in the 
lectures on science. 
Among his numerous manuscripts, recording the Incubrations 
of his own mind, there is. a remarkable tract, dated at New Ha- 
ven, January, 1812, during this winter’s residence here, giving 
an account of a dream or vision of the general judgment. It is 
not impossible that it may have been suggested by Bunyan’s 
Pilgrim’s Progress. Without its quaintness, it is written in the 
alle 
- is elevated and beautiful, 
with — corrections, it 
exhibition of 
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town, and 
erals for Snupentiant; no hind shin 9 what, as 
wards appeared, was passing in his mind, and which he brought 
forth in an intelligible form towards the close of 1822, when he 
called on me, an’ solicited a private interview. 
“Io this interview, which took place in the office of the labor- 
atory of Yale College, no one being present but Mr. Clark and 
Myself, he stated, that the death of his grandfather had put him 
into possession of about twenty thousand dollars, which, by hi 
industry and-economy, he had increased to twenty-five t 
—that he had no family, and might never have one—that his re- 
lations weré numerous, that were his property divided among 
them, the dividend of each would be esis and that he was 
therefore disposed. : : vad 
fie cxpitaan ti of =o In further re of “e views 
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