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a chapel, arid two rooms, each fifty-six feet long and twenty 

 wide, for society halls ; and the entire back central part, 

 forty-eight feet wide and eighty feet long, on first story, for 

 kitchen and dining-room, and a room on the first story 

 twenty by thirty-six feet, for an elementary or preparatory 

 department, with an adjoining recitation-room, fifteen by 

 twenty feet. The basement is mainly to be devoted to coal 

 and hot-air furnaces, of which there will be sixteen of the 

 largest size, from which heated air is conveyed in separate 

 flues to every room in the building. All the rooms are also 

 ventilated by flues extending to the top of the building 

 from each room. The basement also contains the laboratory 

 above noted, in addition to store-rooms, bake-house, and 

 kitchen for culinary department, and three other laborato- 

 ries for the rougher kinds of scientific work. The above, in 

 addition to two reception parlors, and commodious apart- 

 ments for one professor with family, and for the family of 

 the culinary department, constitute the extent of internal 

 arrangement of the buildings. For commodiousness, com- 

 pleteness of detail, and stability of construction these build- 

 ings are not equalled by the buildings of any Agricultural 

 College in the world. 



The other buildings embrace, 



1st. An excellent double-decked barn, fifty-nine by 

 seventy-five feet, and constructed upon the most approved 

 plan, with wagon shed, corn crib, water cisterns, &c. 



2d. A large hog pen, with a granary over it, twenty- two by 

 eighty-three feet, including also a complete slaughter-house. 



3d. A blacksmith shop, twenty by twenty-eight feet, with 

 all the appliances for doing smith work. 



4th. A carpenter shop and tool house, sixteen by forty- 

 four feet. 



5th. Wash house. This building is sixteen by forty feet, 

 situated near the barn, and is fitted up for washing the 

 students' clothes. 



6th. Two frame dwelling-houses, one twenty-eight by 

 twenty-eight feet, now occupied by the carpenter and Su- 

 perintendent of the washing department, and the other, 

 thirty- two by forty -four, occupied by the professor of botany; 

 in connexion with the latter house is a small green-house, 

 with choice native and foreign plants. 



