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year, Classics as before'; French and Hebrew languages, Logic, 

 Geography, Arithmetic, and History continued ; Locke on 

 the Understanding, Blair's Lectures, Mensuration, and Al- 

 gebra. Third year, the Classics before enumerated ; French, 

 Hebrew, History, and Locke continued ; with the addition of 

 Euclid's Elements, Enfield's Philosophy, Trigonometry, 

 Conic Sections, Mensuration of Heights and Distances, Na- 

 vigation, English Composition, and Forensic Disputations. 

 Fourth year, Burlamaqui's Elements of Natural and Po- 

 litical Law, Paley's Philosophy, Dialling, Spheric Geometry 

 and Trigonometry, Ferguson's Astronomy, Doddridge's 

 Theological Lectures, English Composition, &c. 



The Library is the largest excepting one, in the United 

 States. It consists of between 13,000 and 14,000 volumes. 

 The Philosophical Apparatus is ample, and generally said to 

 be the best in America. The Funds are large, but their pre- 

 cise amount is not known. The annual Commencement is 

 on the last Wednesday in August. At the end of the year 

 1800, more than 3,600 Students had received the honours 

 of the institution. 



2. Williams* College. This institution was incorporated 

 as a College in 1793, and is situated in Williamstown, in the 

 County of Berkshire. It is named in honour of Col. 

 Ephraim Williams, who died in 1755, and who left a 

 large portion of his estate for the establishment and support of 

 a seminary of learning. This seminary was first incorpo- 

 rated as an Academy in 1785. Its plan was extended, and a 

 Charter, constituting it a College, given in the year before- 

 mentioned. 



The College Buildings are, two large edifices of brick ; 

 one 82 feet long, 42 feet wide, and four stories high; con- 

 taining 28 rooms for the accommodation of students, and a 

 Chapel: the other 104 feet long, 38 feet wide, and also four 

 stories high ; containing 32 rooms, with a bed-room and 

 study adjoining to each. The former of these buildings was 

 erected in 1788, at the expense of 1 1,700 dollars; the latter, 

 in 1798, at the expense of 12,400 dollars. Besides these, 

 there are a dwelling-house for the President, and a large and 

 elegant Church, to the erection of which the Trustees con- 

 tributed, on condition that the officers and students of the 

 College should always be accommodated therein on the Lord's 

 days, and have the use of it on public occasions. 



The Funds of this College are small, consisting of money 

 on, interest, amounting to about 3,500 dollars, and a town- 



