500 Additional Notes. 



The College Officers are, a President (now the Rev. Dr. 

 Maxcey) 5 a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philo- 

 sophy ; and two Tutors. 



The number of Students in 1801 was about 43. They 

 were at that time boarded in private families ; but are now ac- 

 commodated in the College edifice, which is spacious and 

 convenient. 



The Library consists of 800 volumes. The Philosophi- 

 cal Apparatus is a respectably large and good one. The 

 Funds of the institution are small. 



The State of New-JePvSey has one College, viz^ 



Nassau-Hall, or the College of New- Jersey, at Princeton. 

 This College was founded in 1746, at Elizabeth- Town, from 

 which place it was removed in 1747 to New- Ark, and in 

 1757 to Princeton, where it has since continued. About this 

 time the large College edifice was erected, 180 feet long, 

 54 feet wide, and four stories high ; capable of accommodat- 

 ing a large number of Students. (See Chapter xxvi. p. 345, 

 of this work.) 



This building, together with the Library, much of the 

 Philosophical xipparatus, 6cc. was destroyed by fire in the be- 

 ginning of the year 1802. Since that time, however, by the 

 aid of liberal benefactions from every part of the United States, 

 it has been rebuilt, and the whole institution placed under new 

 advantages and regulations, which promise a degree of re- 

 spectability and usefulness greater than it had ever before at- 

 tained. 



The Government of this College is vested in twenty-four 

 Trustees, including the President of the College, and the Go- 

 vernor of the State for the time being. The Officers of the 

 College are, a President (the Rev. Dr. Samuel S. Smith) ; 

 a Professor of Languages ; a Professor of Divinity ; a Profes- 

 sor of Mathematics, Natural Philosophy and Chemistry ; and 

 three Tutors. 



The Library is now small ; but measures have been lately 

 taken, which will probably soon render it one of the largest 

 and best College Libraries in the United States. The Philo- 

 sophical Apparatus is a respectable one, and also likely to be 

 improved. 



The course of instruction in this Seminary is not accurately 

 known to the writer. It is believed, however, that this is one 

 of the institutions in the United States in which Classical 

 learning receives more than usual attention ; and in which, be* 



