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fronting Main street, and is enclosed with an iron 

 railing, shaded with trees. In this building are the 

 public offices of the State. The Legislature meet 

 here and at New Haven alternately. The City Hall 

 is a large and commodious building, of the Doric order 

 of architecture. Trinity College is situated in the 

 west part of the City. It was founded in 1824, and 

 belongs to the Episcopalians. The President intro- 

 duced me to the library and presented me with the 

 last report of the College. The College consists of 

 two edifices of free-stone, one a hundred and forty- 

 eight feet long by forty-three feet wide, and four 

 stories high, containing forty-eight rooms ; the other 

 eighty-seven feet by fifty-five, and three stories high, 

 containing the Chapel, Library, Mineralogical Cabinet, 

 Philosophical Chamber, Laboratory, and Recitation 

 rooms. There are 6,000 volumes in the College 

 library, and 2,500 in the libraries of the different 

 Societies. A complete philosophical apparatus, cabi- 

 net of minerals, and botanical garden and green-house, 

 belong to the Institution. The Faculty consists of a 

 President, six Professors, and two Tutors. There are 

 one hundred and thirty students in the Institution. 



The American Asylum for the instruction of the 

 Deaf and Dumb was the first establishment of the 



