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 490 The Architectural Review and American Builders' Journal. [Feb., apartment, or to a shaft specially pre- pared for the purpose. A is the Burner and Gas-pipe to sup- ply the same. BB, Tipe to carry off the foul air from the burner. CC, Pipe to carry off the heated air of the room. ' DD, Inlet for cold external fresh air. The arrows show the direction of the current of air, when in operation. The Pipe D is used to introduce a current of cool external air, to supply the place of that which is carried off by the hot-air pipes, and also to assist in producing a perfect combustion of the flame, when the gas is burning. It is not necessary to remove the globe, in order to light the gas, as a spirit-torch is used for this purpose ; and, by means of this, all charred frag- ments inside the globe are entirely avoided. The Globe is not fixed, but simply rests upon the holder, so that it can be readily removed for cleaning when required. LEHIGH UNIVERSITY, .BETHLEHEM, Pa. THE accompanying Illustration ex- hibits the design for the Lehigh University, at Bethlehem, Pa., the Architect of which is Mr. Edward Tuckerman Potter, New York, to whose kindness we are indebted for the follow- ing description of the Plate. This University was founded by the Hon. Asa Packer, of Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania, who has endowed the building with the munificent sum of half a million dollars. The College Buildings are in the Pointed style, and front two hundred and eleven (211) feet, with a depth of sixty-two (62) feet, and are three stories high, with a mansard roof. The walls are of the local quarry work, with dressings of blue lime stone and sand stone. The building embraces a Polytechnic Museum and Library, arranged with alcoves, for the exhibition of specimens of all materials used in the arts.from their native state (as ores, &c.) in every stage, up to the most highly finished articles made from them, with plates illustrating every detail of the work, models of the apparatus used, and all the latest books treating of the same. The whole is sj's- tematicalby arranged, so that the student may, at a glance, glean the leading facts on any subject ; and ma} r, with the most economical use of his time, make him- self master of that subject. The whole under the charge of a Curator, is always open to those students, who prefer to pursue their studies there. The Building also embraces a Chemi- cal Department, with Analytical Labor- atories, Lecture rooms, &c, with all the modern improvements ; a spacious and admirably lighted Engineering and Draughting department ; and also ample accommodation for the Departments of Natural Philosophy, Languages, Belles Lettres, &c. There is also a large Chapel, forty (40) feet by eighty (80 ~ feet, with open timber roof, and stained glass windows. Besides, there are nu- merous other apartments for the College Registry, fire-proof Chambers, &c. The main entrance is through a mas- sive Tower, thirty (30) feet square at the base, including buttresses, and one hundred and twenty -three (123) feet high, to the top of the tower, and one hundred and seventy-one (171) feet to the top of the finial. The entrance is adorned with columns and carved archivolt. The bases of the four columns are carved with the earliest fossiliferous forms known, succeeded by those of a later, but prehistoric age ; while above the capitals are carved with laurels and ba}'s, enwreathing scrolls, bearing the names, on either side, of the greatest poets, scientists, philosophers, &c, which History records. The Archivolt connecting the capitals, bears on a band of foliage the text from Bacon, " Homer minister et interpres Na-