944 Additional Sotes. 



*: This" CdHe'gc has a library, consisting of about 300(5 to- 

 luiniBS. Its philoHOjihical apparatus is among the best in the 

 •United States. The number of matficuiated students is about 

 '125. Besiile these, there are the students in the medical 

 'school, and Some others, who sustain a less formal connexiou 

 '\vi'th the institution. ,^^Hi <ii3i^4»in'9«Jt«frj /i(>c^ 



2. Union College, at Schenectady. This college Avias 

 foii'dsd in 179.5, and though its growth has not beeiv very- 

 rapid, it bids fair to be a useful institution. ~m% > 



The college officers are, a president (now the rev. Dr. 

 Ma.^cey); a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy; 

 and tv.-o tutors. ,b.3;-fQ3jr|nu j 



The number of students in ISOI was about 43. They 

 \vere at that time boarded in private families; but are timv 

 accommodated in the college edifice, which is spacious and 

 convenient. -.^ 



The library consists of 800 volumes. The philosophical 

 apparatus is a respectably large and good one. The funds of 

 the institution are small. 



The state of New Jersey has one college, viz. 



Nassau Hall, or the college of New Jersey, at Princeton. 

 This college was founded in 1746, at Elizabethtown, 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 j 54- 

 feet Avide, and four stories high ; capable of accommodating 

 a large number of students. (See chapter xxvi, p. 204, of 

 this work.) 



This building, together with tlie library, much of the 

 philosophical apparatus, &c., was destroyed by fire in the be- 

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

 iaid of liberal benefactions from everjf^ part of the United, 

 States,^ ii has-been rebuilt, and the whole iustitutron-pjaced 

 under new advantages and regulations, which promise a de- 

 .^riiC of respectability and usefulness greater thaii- it h^d ever 

 before attained. 



