1789.] 
its kind—and particularly as to the great- 
eft quantity adtually known to have been 
produced on an acre, or any aligned quan 
tity of ground, together with the nature of 
the foil, the fort of potatoe, the time of 
planting, width of the intervals, the 
progreffive mode of culture, &c, | 
Our common meaiure, in thefe parts, 
is the fack, containing four bufhels, and 
weighing 2 cwt. net. 
Mr. ARTHUR YOUNG in his northera 
tour, mentions upwards of 1100* bufhels 
to have been produced on a fings. acre, 
and I am far from thinking it improba- 
ble, Wifhing you permanent fucceis, I 
remain, fir, your friend an. cuftomer, 
NEHEMIAH BARTLEY. 
Lawrence-Hiil, near Briftol, 
July 20, 1798. 
ae 

For the Monthly Magazine. 
ACCOUNT OF THE PRESENT SYSTEM 
oF Pusxiic INSTRUCTION, AND OF 
THE NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC bsTa- 
BLISHMENTS IN THE FRENCH RE- 
PUBLIC. 
HE fciences and the arts ought to 
have reaped fubftantial benefits from 
the wonderful change that has taken 
place in the moral and political ftate of 
France; they ought to have been difen- 
gaged trom uleleis forms and ceremonies, 
and to have affumed a new aipect as well 
in reipeét to the learned as the unlearned, 
How tar this has been effeS&ted will be 
explained by an account of the new fySem 
of inftru€tion in the public. fchools of 
the republic; compriling alfo a gene- 
al view of the-preient’ tate of national 
improvement at large, as divided into 
‘The Primary Schools. 
The Central Schocls. 
The Schocl ot Health. 
‘The School of Oriental Languages. 
The Pclytechnic School. 
The National Inftitute. 
The Jury of Pubiic Inftrudtion. 
The Commiffion of Public Inftruction, 
The Legiflative Committee of Initruc- 
tion. : 
And the various other national effa- 
blifhments for the imprevement cf parti- 
cular {ciences. 
The firft degree of pudlic inftruétion is 
to be met with in the Ecoles Primarées, 
eltablithed by a decree of the convention 
of the fecond Pluwioje, in the fecond year 
of the republic. Every diftrict is fur- 
nifhed with one of thefe (chools ; the pro- 
feflors, or mafters in which, are paid 
a rm 
*27 ton. Jocwt, 
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French Syftem of Public Inftrugtion. 83 
from the national treafury ; and to which 
every head of a family, without exception, 
is compelled by law to fend its children 
for inftruction. The fubjeéts taught in 
thefe prithary or elementary fchools are 
divided into nine claffes : 
iit. Initru&tions connected with the 
phyfical and moral fituation of children, 
prior to their entering into thele {chools. 
2d. Similar inftructions as a guide to 
teachers in fhe national fchools. 
3d. The arts of reading and writing. 
4th, The elements of French grammar. 
sth. Elements of arithmetic and geo- 
metry, with the theory of tue new mei- 
furation, . 
6th. The elements of geography. 
7th. Explanations of the principal 
phenomena and produétions of nature, 
8th. Elements of agriculture. 
oth. Elements of republican morals. 
So that in future, on this admirable plan, 
no individual will be found, in France, 
deftitute of thefe leading principles ©: 
knowledge, which are in the primary 
{chools to be laid open, as well to all the 
children of the moft obfcure villagers, a8 
to thole of the moft wealthy of citizens, 
from one end of the republic to the other. 
Next to the primary ichools in rank and 
confequence are the £ coles Centrales, which 
were eftablifhed by a decree of the con- 
vention of the feventh Vento/e in the third 
year. They are fituated in the capital of 
every department, bearing the proportion 
or ie ee {chool to ee tabi 
tants. In thefe fchools the republican 
youths are taught the {cienges, and their 
application in real lite. In cach of thery 
are profeflors for the following branches ; 
1, For mathematics. 
2. Experimental philofophy and che- 
miftry. 
3. Natural hiftory. 
4. Agriculture and commerce. 
5. Logic and metaphyfics, 
6, Political economy and legiflation. 
7. The philofophical hiltoty of nae 
tions. 
8. The art of healing. 
g. Arts and manutactures, 
tro. Univeriai grammar. 
t1. The belles letters. 
x2, The ancient languages. 
13. The modern languages, And 
t4. The finearts, 
Each central {cheol is furnithed with 
an extenfive public library—a botani¢ 
garden —a cabinet of natural hiffory—an 
apparatus for experimental philofophy— 
and a collection of machines and models 
sonnegied with the arts and maoiareS : 
: = $ 

