The College Library consists of between six and seven thousand volumes.

There are three libraries in the college, owned by the students, under the names of Linonian, Brothers', and Moral Libraries. They consist of the number of volumes following:

The Linonian Library consists of

Brothers'

Moral

854 volumes.

The whole number of volumes, exclusive of those possessed by the officers of the college, and individual students, which are many, amount to nearly 9,000, and they are constantly increasing.

The Medical Institution, connected with the college, has a large, handsome stone building, adjoining to which there is a botanical garden. The present number of students, is 50.

ACADEMIES.

Of these, there are a considerable number.

The Episcopal Academy, in Cheshire. This had originally a fund of about 13,500 dollars. It has increased since to about 25,000 dollars. It has a good brick building, 54 by 34, erected by the town, in 1796. It was incorporated in 1801, and styled the Episcopal Academy of Connecticut; and has a library of about 200 volumes, consisting principally of Greek and Latin authors.

Rev. TILLOTSON BRONSON, D. D. is Principal, Rev. ASA CORNWALL, Professor of Languages. BURRAGE BEACH, Esq. Treasurer and Secretary. Anniversary, the first Wednesday in October. The average number of scholars, is about 70.

Bacon Academy, in Colchester, was founded in 1803. The original fund, or donation of Mr. Bacon, was 36,000 dollars. The academy is a very beautiful building, 73 feet by 34, three stories high. Preceptor, JOHN WITTER, A. M. The average number of scholars is about 200.

Staples Academy, in North-Fairfield. This was founded in 1781, in consequence of a generous donation in lands, and notes on interest, to several trustees named by Mr. Staples, and appointed for the purpose of erecting a free school in the society of NorthFairfield, in the town of Fairfield. The trustees named by the donor, viz. the Rev. Robert Ross, the Rev. Samuel Sherwood, and James Johnson, were incorporated by the general assembly, May,

1781, by the name of The Trustees of Staples' Free School; and were enabled to hold property to such an amount, that the annual interest should not exceed a thousand dollars. The present instructor is the Rev. NATHANIEL FREEMAN, A. M.

Academy at Plainfield. This was founded in 1784. It is vested with charter privileges. It has a fund of 334 dollars. The interest of this, with the bills for tuition, supports the school. The number of scholars, on an average, is about 80. The fund was given by Isaac Coit, Esq. of Plainfield.

There is an academy at Wallingford, which has a charter, but no fund. The Greek and Latin languages are taught; the English grammar, and other branches of useful knowledge. The average number of scholars is about 45.

There are several other academies in the state, which have no charter; in some of which the learned languages are taught. Besides these, there are twelve Greek and Latin schools.

DISTRICT SCHOOLS.

By the law of the state, the several towns in it are divided into districts, for the schooling of the children and youth. Committees are appointed to examine the masters and mistresses of the schools, and take care that they are duly qualified for instructors. The state is divided, according to the best collection I have been able to obtain, into about 1,580 district schools, consisting of different numbers. In some of them there are an hundred scholars, or more; in others there are not more than twenty. On an average, they will amount to fifty-five, or fifty-six. From between one third and one half of the whole population are schooled the greatest part of the year-In the winter, and part of the fall and spring, by masters, and in the warmer and more busy season, by mistresses. For the support of these schools, the legislature have appropriated very ample funds-one arising from new lands, sold by the then colony, many years since--the other from the sale of the land in New Connecticut. These lands, called the Western Reserve, sold for 1,200,000 dollars. In October, 1815, the value of the fund, as reported by the committee of said fund, was $1,501,914 89, secured by mortgages and lands. Since October, 1815, there has been funded and added to the principal, 106,759 dolls. making the present amount of the school fund, $1,608,673 89. The dividends on the school funds, paid to the different school societies in the state, for the year ending March 1st, 1818, on the list of 1816, is as follows: October dividend, 1817, Dolls. 19,761..87 March dividend, 1818,

Allowance of two dollars on the 1000, on the

list of 1816, payable out of the treasury, on
the old fund,

29,643..11

13,174..68

Dolls. 62,579..66

Besides the academies which have charters, the grammar and district schools, there are about twenty of higher order, in which young gentlemen and ladies are instructed in higher branches of knowledge than are taught in the district schools.

NUMBER III.

Libraries, Newspapers, and Reading of the State.

EXCLUSIVE of the libraries of the clergy, lawyers, and physicians, and the Masonic libraries, of which there are many large and excellent ones, there are libraries in almost all the towns and societies in the state; formed by particular companies, and, generally, under good regulations. According to the best information which the writer has been able to obtain, there are about 140 of these libraries, containing, in the whole, about 26,000 volumes.* These have, generally, been instituted since the American revolution. They, generally, contain a well chosen assortment of books in divinity, morals, geography, history, biography, voyages, travels, &c. The proprietors draw from them as they please. They afford a stimulus and taste for reading.

There are published, weekly, in the state, fifteen folio newspapers, besides the Religious Intelligencer. These papers, it is estimated, will average at a thousand each, so that about 15,000 or 16,000 folio papers are read every week. Some of these papers go out of the state; but, it is believed, more are received and read from the other states, than are sent out of this into them. From this exhibition of the schools, libraries, and public papers, some adequate idea may be formed of the general diffusion of knowledge among the inhabitants, and of the reading and intelligence of the

state.

RELIGIOUS INSTRUCTION.

There are in the state, according to the best information which I have been able to obtain, 145 Congregational associated ministers; 30 Episcopalians; and 62 Baptist ministers-237. There are five or six Independent or Separate ministers, several fixed Methodist preachers, and one Sandemanian minister. In the whole, there are about 250 settled teachers, nearly one to every thousand of the inhabitants.

There are about 50 other public teachers, either ministers who have been dismissed in good standing, or candidates for the ministry. These are employed as missionaries abroad, or in preaching to vacant congregations, as circumstances require.

*From a considerable number of towns, no account of their libraries has been received. It is believed, that the whole number of volumes is not less than 30,000.

FINIS.

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Page 28, 7th line from bottom, for diuternum read diuturnum.
Same page, 5th line from the bottom, for maseimum read maximum.
Page 71, 6th line from the bottom, for no read not.

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