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director, professors, and masters ; a chapel, airy 

 dormitories, apartments for the senior and junior 

 classes, refectories, and every domestic office. 

 The intentions of the institution through every 

 department are promoted with the utmost re- 

 gularity and good effect, both with respect to 

 instruction and internal economy. The director,. 

 M. Roque, and chief professors are as eminently 

 distinguished for their literary acquirements as 

 for their zeal in diffusing them : the annual 

 pubhc examinations that take place demon- 

 strate the progress made, not only in useful 

 learning, but even in the superior walks of 

 abstruse science, in a manner highly compli- 

 mentary to their diligence, and far exceeding, 

 any expectations that would be generally enter- 

 tained from the college of a colony ; but on thia 

 point, as well as on many others, the capabili- 

 ties of the province have been but little under- 

 stood or much misrepresented in Europe. In 

 this college, as well as in the seminary, the 

 number of pupils is ver}' great, with whom a 

 very moderate annual stipend is paid ; the 

 benefits that arise from the dissemination of 

 useful instruction over so large a space as the 

 lower province will not fail to be duly appre- 

 ciated by every feeling mind, and for their en- 

 deavours in so beneficent a cause the reverend 

 Sulpiciens are fairly entitled to the gratitude 



