498 Additional Notes. 



brary consists of between 3,000 and 4,000 volumes. The 

 Philosophical Apparatus is considered among the best in our 

 country. The Funds are large, but the amount of them 

 is not known to the writer. 



The annual Commencement is on the second Wednesday 

 of September; and the number of students who had gradu- 

 ated at this College, at the end of the year 1800, was about 

 2,600. 



The State of Vermont has one College, viz. 



Middlebury College, situated in the town of Middlebury, 

 in Addison County. This seminary was founded in 1800, 

 and is yet in an infant state. 



The Government of this College is vested in a Board of 

 Trustees, consisting of sixteen gentlemen. The Officers in 

 1801 were, a President (the Rev. Mr. J. Atwater), and 

 a Tutor. One or more Professors have probably been elected 

 since. 



The Funds consist chiefly of lands, which, though little 

 productive at present, promise hereafter to afford an ample 

 support to the institution. 



The number of Students in the College, and Grammar 

 School annexed to it, was, in 1801, about 30. Since that 

 time it is believed they have increased. They are all boarded 

 in private houses. The annual expense of each, including 

 boarding, washing, tuition, die. is from 80 to 90 dollars. 



The Library is small, but increasing. The Philosophi- 

 cal Apparatus is incomplete ; but measures have been adopted 

 to render it less so ; and, on the whole, the institution has 

 a prospect of becoming, at no great distance of time, exten- 

 sively useful. 



New-York has two Colleges, viz. 



1. Columbia College, in the city of New- York. This in- 

 stitution was founded in 1754, under the title of King's Col- 

 lege, which name, after the Revolution, was exchanged for 

 the one which it now bears. (See p. 355 of this volume.) 



This College is under the direction of a Board of Trustees. 

 The immediate officers are, a President (at present the Rev. 

 Dr. Benjamin Moore, Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal 

 Church in the State of New- York) ; a Professor of Moral 

 Philosophy, Logic, Rhetoric, and Belles Lettres ; a Professor 

 of the Greek and Latin Languages, and of Grecian and Ro- 

 man Antiquities ; a Professor of Mathematics, Natural Philo* 



