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Rh .example, the Morals of youth may be as easily preserved, in a great and well-policied city, as in a small village, if we can suppose any place to continue small where such a seminary is once founded. When I speak so, I would be understood to mean, when the youth all lodge in the houses of their parents, or in lodgings within the walls of the college, which the trustees, by their first plan proposed to erect, and will do doubt accomplish whenever their funds will permit.

In this institution, there is a very noble Apparatus for experiments in Natural Philosophy, done in England by the best hands, and brought over from thence, in different parcels, at a very great expence. There is also, in the experiment room, an Electrical Apparatus, the property of one of the professors, chiefly his own invention, and perhaps the completest of the kind, now in the world.

What a blessing must such an -institution be to this continent in general, and how great an honor to its worthy founders! What advantages may not the youth reap in it with common industry, amid so many opportunities of improvement and so many incitements to industry; where the Masters transact every thing by joint advice; where a due regard to religion is kept up; and the whole open to the visitation and frequent inspection of a number of gentlemen of rank and character? Who would not chuse rather to see his son in such a seminary, than in any obscure corner, under immoral men, habitual Drunkards, professed Gamesters, concealed Papists or others, who never call on the name of God in their schools thro' the week, and on his Sabbaths seldom enter his holy sanctuary! And yet, it were to be wished, that some such as these may not have been but too successful in deluding unthinking parents to commit an inestimable treasure into their hands, namely the education of innocent children.

But to return, the present professors and members of faculty in the institution of which I am giving an account are:—

REV. WILLIAM SMITH, M. A., PROVOST of the College and Academy, and Professor of Rhetoric and Natural Philosophy.

REV. FRANCIS ALISON, D. D ., VICE PROVOST of the College, Rector of the Academy, and Professor of Logic and Moral Philosophy.

REV. EBENEZER KINNERSLEY, M. A., Professor of English and Oratory, and Chief Master of the English School.

THEOPHILUS GREW, M. A., Professor of Mathematics, and Master of the Mathematical School.

JOHN BEVERIDGE, M.A., Professor of Languages, and Chief Master of the Latin and Greek Schools.

As to the First of these gentlemen, his name has been so often mentioned of late, on many public occasions, that the writer of this would leave it to cooler times to declare for or against him. With respect to his