xi 1 N T R O D U C r I O N. 



Ledures on that branch iniifl be always very lame and 

 defeftlve without one. Nothing but a more full convidion 

 of its importance and utility, is wanting to fet on foot fuch 

 an Inftitution, and to carry it into effeft. A Botanic Garden 



particularly iiiftruded in this , and when this is fufficiently acquired, they are 

 gradually made acquainted with the different p rts of fpeech, which are explained to 

 them in a clear and concife manner, by t'.e aid of the beft grammars, founded on the 

 decifions of the French Academy. Thefe things being underftood, they are put to the 

 cxercifes correfponding to the rules they have learned, and tranflate, in the rhean time, 

 the French books beft adapted to their proficiency and capacities, into Englifli. When 

 they become capable of rendering them with eafe and elegance, and have acquired a 

 due knowledge of the rules of French fyntax, they are taught an eafy phrafeology, and 

 made to tranflate Englifh into French with propriety, particularly paflages of the beft 

 Englifli authors. They are then made acquainted with the befl: French authors, both in 

 verfe and profe. The courfe of French tuition begins about the middle of June, and 

 ends in April. Though particularly dellincd for the ftadents of Columbia College, other 



perfons arc lik«wife allowed to attend. 

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8. A Profeflbrfliip of Law waslnftituted in December, 1793, and James Kent, A.M. 



appointed ProfeiTor. Mr. Kent having been fo recently appointed, has not as yet entered 



upon a courfe of leiSures, but this Piofcfibrfliip is intended to comprife a brief review 



of the hlftcry, the nature, the feveral forms, and the juft ends of civil government — a 



Iketch of the origin, progrefs, and final fettlement of the government of the United 



States — a particular detail of the organization and duties of the feveral departments of 



the general government, together with an examination of fuch parts of the civil and 



criminal codes of the federal jurifprudcnce as fliall be mofl fufceptible of illuflrationj 



and moft conducive to public utility. The conllitutions of the feveral ftates, and the 



connexion they bear with the general government, will then be confidercd, and the 



more Mrticular examination of the conftitution of this ftate. The whole detail of cur 



