Travels Through North America 



only offered a memorial to the assembly, setting 

 forth that they thought the act extremely hard upon 

 them, as their salaries were small; and that they 

 hoped the assembly would take their case into con- 

 sideration, and enable them to live with that decency 

 which became their character; I am persuaded, from 

 the knowledge which I have of the people in general, 

 and from repeated conversations with several mem- 

 bers of the assembly, that they might have obtained 

 almost any thing they could have wished; if not, 

 they undoubtedly would have had reason to appeal. 

 But, instead of this, without applying to the as- 

 sembly for relief, after the act was passed, (for be- 

 fore, indeed, some of them did apply to the speaker 

 in private) they flew out into the most violent in- 

 vectives, immediately sent over an agent to England, 

 and appealed to his majesty in council. The result 

 has been already related. 



The progress of arts and sciences in this colony 

 has been very inconsiderable: the college of William 

 and Mary is the only public place of education, and 

 this has by no means answered the design of its in- 

 stitution. It has a foundation for a president and 

 six professors. The business of the president is to 

 superintend the whole, and to read four theological 

 lectures annually. He has a handsome house to 

 live in, and 200 1. sterling per annum. The pro- 

 fessor of the Indian school has 60 1. sterling, and a 

 house also; his business is to instruct the Indians in 



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