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Your just taste for exquisite harmony and the lovely beauties of 

 vegetable and breathing forms, has been the subject of the happiest 

 effusions of the most gifted poets. 



And we hope ere long to take you from the dust and bustle of 

 this mighty city, to a green spot, where your eyes can be greeted 

 with the rich and varied productions, and the utility and order, that 

 will prevail on a tidy and neatly arranged experimental and model 

 Farm. 



And you, the descendants of those indefatigable sires that have 

 reclaimed Maremmas from the inroads of tempestuous seas, laid ex- 

 uberant Polders on fast foundations, and converted the sandy heath 

 into fields teeming with the rewards of well-directed tillage, show 

 yourselves the worthy sons of the Belgic race. 



And you, in whose veins courses Pilgrim blood, let mankind «ee 

 that you have not degenerated from the high purpose and untiring 

 industry of your own New England, whose barren and rocky shores 

 have been changed into beauty and verdure. 



And you, citizens by birth and adoption, of this noble state, the 

 choicest and fairest domain that ever came from the hands of God, 

 join all in laying deep the foundations of this educational edifice, 

 which will do ineffable credit to the rising generation, be venerated 

 by a grateful posterity, and shall last as long as our own Hudson 

 shall march with might and pomp to the ocean, or till the thunders 

 of Niagara shall cease to roar. 



