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many suppose. A number of our Academies have respectable, 

 and some of them very ample endowments ; the result of both 

 legislative aid and private liberality. Meson Academy, at 

 Lexington, Oglethorpe county, received from ten to fifteen 

 thousand dollars, a permanent endowment from the individual 

 whose name it bears. The Burke county Academy has a per- 

 manent fund of more than seven thousand dollars, and within 

 a few years the citizens of this county have given to other in- 

 stitutions probably over $20,000. The Richmond Academy 

 has buildings and library and apparatus worth probably $30,000 

 — an annuity from real estate amounting to 81,600, and bank 

 stock to the amount of $12,000, besides lands which are rapid- 

 ly increasing in value. Here, also, is a Medical College en- 

 dowed by the State to the amount of perhaps $35,000, and 

 possessing buildings, apparatus, library, and the usual means 

 for conducting such an institution, to the amount of $50,000. 

 This institution is now well established, and justly meriting 

 and largely receiving the patronage of the State and other 

 States. The Chatham Academy has large and valuable build- 

 ings, and funds sufficient to sustain an institution of superior 

 character. In the village of Washington, there is, besides the 

 Male Academy, which has always been well sustained, a Fe- 

 male Institute of very high character, for the establishment of 

 which the citizens of that county have come forward with 

 liberal subscriptions. They have a beautiful building and libra- 

 ry, and apparatus sufficient to render it an institution of high 

 order. In La Grange, Troup county, are Academies, both 

 male and female, upon which the inhabitants of that village 

 and county have expended large sums, and where hundreds of 

 both sexes have for years enjoyed superior advantages for in- 

 struction. No one can visit these and many other Academies 

 and High Schools, which are found in all our older and thickly 

 settled counties, without seeing that a large amount has been 

 expended by our citizens for purposes of education. The 

 Montpelier Institute, under the patronage of the Episcopal 

 Church in Georgia, has probably cost $20,000 in its establish- 

 ment. One individual gave $10,000. The Female College at 

 Macon has probably cost not less than $70,000. For the 

 establishment and endowment of Emory College, there have 



