74 EARLY UNDERTAKINGS. [1838, 
We ascended into the cupola which crowns the build- 
ing, where we have a most beautiful view of the town 
and region round about, the roads all diverging from 
the centre, the noble river, which we could trace from 
its commencement in Lake St. Clair. The people 
are evidently very proud of the prospect. By the 
way, I hear that the doctor’s protégé Dr. Fischer has 
been here, and has gone on to Indiana to astonish 
the people with his new fashion of blowing up rocks. 
He has performed wonders in this way between this 
place and New York. Whipple thinks they will have 
some place for him next winter. The university 
branch in this place has a vacation soon, and a public 
examination is now going on; thither we next directed 
our steps. I was introduced to the principal, Mr. 
Fitch, to whom they give a salary of $1500 per annum. 
I am informed that they employ no teachers or princi- 
pals in any of the branches without first submitting 
them to a thorough examination. We stayed until 
the examination suspended for dinner, when I returned 
to my room, and here you see me engaged. — Sunset. 
After dinner Mr. Whipple called for me, and we went 
to see Governor Mason at his house. We were intro- 
duced to his sisters. . . . They live in a very good 
house, quite elegantly furnished. We stayed only a 
few minutes, all going to Whipple’s office, where a 
meeting of the board of regents was appointed to be 
held. It was known that there would be no quorum, 
so they adjourned until Thursday, when Mr. Mundy is 
expected back from New York, and a meeting of con- 
sequence will be held. I was introduced to Chancel- 
lor Farnsworth (who wrote me from the committee), 
Major Kearsley, Judge Brooks (Whipple’s father-in- 
law) and others. We all went to the examination, 
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