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logic, geography, arithmetic, and history continued; Locke 

 on the UiideritaiKliiig, Blair's Lectures, meiisuiution, aud al- 

 gebra. Third year, the classics before enuiiieraled; French, 

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

 Euclid's Llenients, Enfield's Philosophy, trigonometry, conic 

 sections, mensuration of heights and distances, navigation, 

 English composition, and forensic disputations. Fourth year, 

 Eurlamaqul's Elements of Natural and Political 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 13000 and 14000 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 ou 

 the hist Wednesday in August. At the end of the year 1800 

 more tiian 3oOO students had received tke honours of the 

 institution. 



2. Williams' college. Tliis institution was Incorporated a» 

 a college in 1793, and is situate in WlUlamstown, in the 

 county of Berkshire. It is named In honour of colonel 

 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 fir.st incorpo- 

 rated as an academy in 1785. Its plan was extend^jd, and a 

 charter, constituting it a college, given in the year before- 

 nientioned. 



The college buildings are two large edifices of brick; one 

 82 feet long, •1-2 feet wide, and four stories high; containing 

 28 room.s for the accommodation of students, and a chajx'l ; 

 the other 104 feet long, 3S feet -wide, and also four stories 

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

 joining to each. The former of these buildings was erected 

 in 1788, at the expense of 1 1700 dollars; the latter, in 1798, 

 at the expense of 12400 doUaii. Beside tliese, there are a 



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