168 TRAVELS THROUGH NORTH AMERICA,' 
of Virginia is president of the college, and 
has apartments in the buildings. Half a do¬ 
zen or more of the students, the eldest about 
twelve years olch dined at his table one day 
that I was there; some were without shoes 
or stockings, others without coats. During 
dinner they constantly rose to help themselves 
at the sideboard, A couple of dishes of salted 
meat, and some oyster soup, formed the whole 
of the dinner. I only mention this, as it may 
convey some little idea of American colleges 
and American dignitaries. 
The episcopalian church, the only one in 
the place, stands in the middle of the main 
street a it is much out of repair. On either 
side of it, is an extensive green, surrounded 
with neat looking houses, which bringto mind 
an English village. 
The town contains about twelve hundred 
inhabitants, and the society in it is thought to 
be more extensive and more genteel at the 
jame time than what is to be met with in 
any other place of its size in America No 
manufactures are carried on here, and scarcely 
any trade. 
There‘is an hospital here for lunatics, but 
it does not appear to be well regulated. 
