GIRARDS COLLEGE. 



in his confinement, and however desirous to 

 pursue a virtuous course when it is ended, he 

 finds on his return to the world, that he car- 

 ries along with him an indelible stigma which 

 proves a bar to his exercise of honest industry, 

 and leaves him no choice but a return to his 

 former vicious habits. 



We next visited Girard's College, a magni- 

 ficent marble edifice, not yet completed, which 

 in dimensions will surpass the College of Edin- 

 burgh, and in splendour of architecture will, it 

 is said, equal any building in the world. The 

 founder was a Mr Girard, a Frenchman, who 

 from obscurity and poverty, rose to be a great 

 banker in Philadelphia, and bequeathed a for- 

 tune of about a million and a half Sterling, for 

 the erection and endowment of this College. 



It is about eight years since the building of 

 it was commenced, and some years may yet 

 be required for its completion. Some rather 

 whimsical conditions disqualifying certain de- 

 scriptions of persons from being appointed pro- 

 fessors, are expressed in the founder's will, but 

 so ample is the endowment of the institution, 



