language in Harvard University, Mr, Everett had previously 
written me a German letter, and offered me his services in an ex¬ 
tremely friendly manner. He has passed five years in Europe, 
during two of which he studied at Goettingen, and also visited 
Weimar. He remembered this with much pleasure, and was 
particularly pleased with the acquaintance of St. M. v. Goethe. 
Having been elected a member of congress he 
fessorship. 
Mr. Everett called for me the next day to take me to Harvard 
University, at Cambridge, three miles distant from Boston. At 
twelve o’clock we left Boston, though the heat was extreme, and 
rode over the wooden bridge which connects both towns, and is 
three thousand four hundred feet long. Cambridge is by no 
means compactly built, but occupies a large extent of ground. 
The houses are generally frame, a few of brick, and very few 
entirely of granite; they are however painted with bright colours 
and are very pleasing to the eye. Every house has a garden. 
Many meadows, like those in England, are enclosed with three 
rails, lying one above the other; Indian corn is cultivated in the 
fields; the grass was dry and withered. 
Harvard University, one of the oldest colleges in the United 
States, was founded in 1638, by a clergyman named Harvard, who 
bequeathed it about eight hundred pounds sterling. By means of 
bequests made since that period, it has now a very large income. 
The state of Massachusetts supplies the deficiencies without how¬ 
ever making any fixed contribution. The university has eight 
buildings, chiefly of brick, and only one of granite. The Unita¬ 
rian chapel is in the latter, in which, besides the usual services on 
Sunday, morning and evening prayers are held, which all the 
students must attend. In front of the buildings is a large space, 
surrounded with trees, where the students may amuse themselves. 
The students are about three hundred and fifty in number, and 
principally board and lodge in the buildings of the university; a 
number, however, who cannot find room, or are recommended to 
families, live in private houses. They are in other respects, as 
in the universities of England, subjected to a very rigid discipline. 
The library, which occupies two halls, contains about eighteen 
thousand volumes. It contains the first edition of the large work 
on Egypt; a Polyglot bible from the collection of Lord Claren¬ 
don; a splendid edition of the Lusiad, by Camoens, with plates from 
the designs of Gerard, edited by the Marquis de Souza, and print¬ 
ed by Didot at Paris. Only two hundred and fifty copies of this 
edition were printed, and this copy was given to the university 
by the Marquis himself. Of manuscripts I saw but few, and these 
were Greek, which Mr. Everett bought at Constantinople during 
his travels, and another containing the aphorisms of Hippocrates, 
resigned his pro- 
