Second, landscape and topographical drawing. —Third, Monday, 
Wednesday, and Friday, drawing of the human figure— 1 Tues¬ 
day and Thursday, studies of the French language.—Fourth, 
French studies and recitations. 
From four o’clock till sunset .—“Military exercises—inspec¬ 
tion of the dress and roll-call at sunset. 
From sunset till half an hour later,— Supper immediately 
after parade—signal to go to the rooms immediately after the 
supper. 
Half an hour after sunset till half past nine .—First class, 
studies on engineer and military sciences.—Second, studies on 
natural and experimental philosophy. —Third and fourth, mathe¬ 
matical studies. 
From half past nine till ten o’clock .—Retreat beat at half 
past nine-^-roll-call immediately after—signal to extinguish the 
lights and inspection of the rooms at ten o’clock. 
TABLE 
Of the Sciences taught and the Books used at West Point . 
SCIENCES. 
PARTICULAR SUB¬ 
JECTS. 
TEXT BOOKS. 
First Class. Course of fourth year. 
Engineering. 
Instructors. 
Capt. Douglass* 
Lieut. Mordecai. 
Artillery tactics. 
Field and permanent 
fortifications. 
Civil and military archi¬ 
tecture and construc¬ 
tions. 
Treatise on the Sciences of 
War and Fortification, by 
Guy de Vernon. 
Traite des Machines, par 
Hachette. 
Programme d’un Cours de 
Construction, par Sgan- 
zin. 
History and belles- 
lettres. 
Rev. Mr. MTlvaine, 
Chaplain. 
Geography. 
History. 
Moral philosophy. 
Laws of nations. 
Morse’s Geography. 
Tytler’s Elements of Ge¬ 
neral History. 
Paley’s Principles of Moral 
and Political Philosophy. 
Vattel’s Law of Nations. 
Chemistry and Mi¬ 
neralogy. 
Dr. Torrey. 
Lieut. Prescott. 
Application of chemis¬ 
try to the arts. 
Cleveland’s Treatise on Mi¬ 
neralogy and Chemistry. 
Tactics. 
Major Worth. 
Capt. Hitchcock. 
Lieut. C. Smith. 
Lieut. Kinley, 
teacher of the 
Artillery. 
Platoon-battalion- 
school and line-evo¬ 
lutions. 
Exercises and manoeu¬ 
vres of artillery. 
Rules and Regulations for 
the Field-exercise and 
Manoeuvres of Infantry. 
Lallemand’s Treatise on 
Artillery. 
