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which exist in manufactories,) four secondary schools or 

 colleges, in the towns of Aran, Brugg, Lensbourg and Zof- 

 fingen ; two other schools of the second degree in the 

 Catholic towns of Rheinfield and Baden ; a superior or 

 cantonal school, in Aran, in which the history of Argow, 

 read with interest and enthusiasm, excites in the minds of 

 its young citizens the Amor patrice ; a normal school for 

 forming teachers, one public, and various private schools 

 for females ; and a school for the deaf and dumb. In 

 the town of Aran are three societies for public good, viz. 

 One for patriotic culture, divided into sections for the dif- 

 ferent branches of agricultural and manufacturing indus- 

 try. One for the assistance of poor children, and, a read- 

 ing society, which has also the care of the cantonal library. 

 Four periodical papers are published in the same town. 

 One of them, in German, the Swiss Messenger, had, a few 

 3'^ears since, more than five thousand subscribers. The in- 

 habitants of Arau, celebrate in the month of August every 

 year, la Fete de la jeunesse. The houses and the streets, on 

 this occasion, are ornamented with garlands of verdure and 

 flowers ; and after a solemn religious ceremony, and a ser- 

 mon, the evolutions of the corps of cadets, and various gym- 

 nastic exercises take place, in which young people between 

 the age of eight and eighteen, are engaged, presenting a 

 very animated spectacle, and attracting crowds of obser- 

 vers. To this succeeds a banquet in the open air, in 

 which the children of all the schools, instructors, members 

 of the government, and principal inhabitants take a part. 

 These joyful repasts are sometimes followed by the night 

 of a balloon, or a hymn sung in concert, and the fete is 

 terminated by a rural dance. 



18. Brussels. — Elementary Instruction. — The King by 

 two ordinances of the 17th of May, and 2d July, 1823 has 

 granted to the Society established at Brussels for the encour- 

 agement of mutual instruction, a convenient spot of ground 

 for a building destined for a school of both sexes; and has 

 added to this grant a donation of 12000 florins from his 

 own purse. The edifice is designed to accommodate about 

 1000 children. 



19. University of Leyden.^—M. Reinwardt, whose re- 

 turn from Batavia was expected with so much impatience, 



