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College, purchased an apparatus. and sent Green^ 

 wood as his professor to Cambridge. Green- 

 wood of course introduced the business at Har- 

 vard College, in the advanced state the science 

 had assumed at London. A taste for this sci- 

 ence being thus introduced, it became the fa- 

 vorite study of the young gentlemen who were 

 under a course of education ; but as no indivi- 

 dual had any philosophical instruments, it was 

 seldom pursued any further than a course of aca- 

 demical education had carried it. In astronomy 

 the attention had been carried a little higher. 

 In 1694, Brattle began to make some astronomi- 

 cal observations at Cambridge. Robie pursued 

 the same business, and Winthrop was attentive 

 and accurate in observing the celestial phenome- 

 ria. Godfrey, at Philadelphia, b}^ the strength 

 of an untaught genius, discovered the sextant, 

 which now bears the name of Hadley. The 

 observations and the names of these gentlemen, 

 appear to advantage in the transactions of the 

 Royal Society of London. 



In natural history some useful observations 

 and aocounts had been published relative to the 

 weather, climate, vegetables and animals, in 

 Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New York 

 and Massachusetts ; some of them were by na- 

 tives of the colonies, but the most by persons 

 who came from Europe to reside in the coun- 

 try. Classical knowledge was taught with repu- 

 tation and success in the Colleges, and by the 

 grammar schools. All the men of education 

 had been instructed and were acquainted with 

 tKe works of some of the most eminent orators 

 and poets of antiquity. Colleges had been 



