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But although they have conftituted a Profeflbriliip, and 

 appointed a Profeffor, there are two things wanting to give 

 proper aid to the bufmefs. The firfl is an augmentation of 

 Salary, and its permanency, sdly, A Botanic Garden. A 



The different objciSts which belong to thefe heads, are minutely treated in a fet of 

 lecSlures which commence in the beginning of June, and continue daily until the firll cf 

 April in each year. 



The College is provided with an elegant and cxtenfive apparatus for Mechanical 

 Philofophy and Aftrnnomy. There are about fix hundred experiments performed each 

 year during the courfe. — Young gentlemen may attend any or all of the Mathematical 

 claffes, as well as the Natural Philofophy and Aftronomical clafs, without regularly 

 entering the College, or being fubjc6ted to any other regulations of the College than 

 relate to thofc claffes refpedtively. 



A complete Syllabus of this courfe Is ready for the prefs, and will be publiflied as foon 

 as poffible. 



4. The Profeffor of the Greek and Latin languages is the Rev. Elijah D. Rattoone, 

 A.M. Under him the Frefhmen clafs read, in Greek, Lucian, anda part of Xenophon; 

 in Latin, Livy and the more difficult orations of Cicero;. and every day either recite, 

 with their other Icffons, a part of Greek or Latin grammar, or write Latin, or tranflate 

 Latin into free and elegant Englifh. 



The Sophomore clafs finifli Xenophon, and read the orations of Demofthencs, the odes 

 of Horace, and part of his fatires. 



The Junior clafs finiQi Horace and read Homer. 



The Senior read Longlnus and Cicero De Oratore and Dc OfBciis. 



