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numerous as could be expected, though, as it was not an 

 undergraduate courfe, few of the Students on the College 

 eflablilhment thought it worth their while to attend ; the 

 hearers confifling chiefly of the Students of Phyfic. 



refpetSl to government — their rights — different forms and qualities of government — 

 diftribution and powers in limited governments — ideas of conflitution, convention, and 

 final determination of the concerns of a limited government — rights of fovereignty 

 naturally limited, and defpotifm naturally unlawful. — 3. The Laiv of Nations, as founded 

 in nature, make the third part ; lawr of peace, defence, war, and neutrality — the natural 

 rights of national intercourfe — treaties of peace, alliance, armiftice, fponfions, &c. — 

 national rights of territory and jiirifdiftion, Of this courfe the Profeffor has publiflied 

 an ample text-book. 



3. The ProfefTorfhip of Mathematics is at prefent held by John Kemp, LL. D. 



The firft Mathemati«al clafs are taught arithmetic in a fcientific manner, and algebra 

 as far as quadratic equations. 



The fecond clafs fludy the elements of Euclid, trigonometry, the application of 

 trigonometry to the menfuration of heights and dlftances, of furfaces and folids, land 

 furveying and navigation. 



The third clafs fludy conic fe(ftions, the doiflrine of the fphere and cylinder, the 

 projedlion of the fphere, fpherical tii'.i;onometry, the higher branches of algebra, the 

 dodlrine of chances and annuities, the application oi algebra to geometry, and the dodrine 

 of fludtiions. 



There is alfo a Profeffjrflilp of Natural Philofophy and Aftronomy in the College. 

 This courfe I? divided by John Kemp, LL. D. tiie Profeffor, into, i. Mechanic*, ftriaiy 

 fo called; %. Hydroft^fics; 3. Hydraulics ; 4. Pneumatics; 5. Optics; 6. Eiearicity 5 

 J-, Magnetifra ; and, 8. AAr^nomy. 



