COLLEGE OF NORTH CAROLINA.

We have received from the best authority the following account of the College of North Carolina, and of the other means of education in that state.

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There is but one college in the state of North Carolina, founded by charter, and denominated the University of North Carolina. This charter was granted by the legislature of the state in 1788, and this act was passed in conformity to the state constitution compiled in 1776. Trustees were appointed, to whom was given all the escheated property which then had arisen or might forever thereafter arise in the state. Another donation was afterward made of all real property which accrued to the state by confiscation during the revolutionary war. Lately another donation was made of all debts due to the state prior to the thirty first December, 1800. From these sources very ample funds have been collected. The escheated property is a thing daily arising. The trustees hold likewise by the donation of individuals forty or fifty thousand acres of the best arable land in the state of Tennessee. At the time the donations were made, these lands were not reputed very valuable, but since that time the population has increased to such a degree in and about the sections of country where these lands are situated, that a great part of them will at this time command from ten to twelve dollars per acre. Much valuable land is also held within the state of North Carolina. The income of the stock in different banks is sufficient to pay the salaries of the President and Faculty without recourse to the tuition money. The President is the Rev. Joseph Caldwell, who was educated at Princeton college, and for some time a tutor there.

The college is situated about twenty seven miles south west of Raleigh, the seat of government of the state. The place where it is situated was known under the regal government by the name of Chapel Hill. It is a small post town, containing about thirty houses beside the public buildings.

The public buildings are a Hall ninety feet in length, forty in breadth, and two stories high, containing eighteen rooms below and sixteen above for the accommodation of students, beside two publie rooms, one for the library and the other for the philosophical apparatus; a Chapel forty five feet by forty, built by the liberality of the late Gen. Thomas Person of North Carolina, and from him called Person Chapel; and a Hall for commons. A new building is erecting for students, one hundred and thirty feet in length, eighty in breadth, and three stories high. About thirty five thousand dollars have been appropriated toward its completion. Another Hall of the same dimensions with the present is hereafter to be erected. Dwelling houses have been built for the President and Faculty. The number of students is commonly about one hundred. The laws by which they are governed and the plan of education resemble those of New England colleges. Degrees were first conferred in 1798. The situation of Chapel Hill is very healthy, it being in an high, broken country. The surrounding lands are fertile and well watered.

Attached to the College is an Academy, which is a preparatory school for boys about to enter the college.

There are four principal Academies in the state upon liberal plans, containing on an average about one hundred students each. Beside these, charters have been granted to about twenty country academies under the care of presbyterian clergymen. There are three female schools, one in Salem, a 'moravian town, one in Raleigh, and one in Fayetteville, containing each about seventy female students. About half this number consists of the daughters of gentlemen residing in the state; the other half are from South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and Maryland.

BOWDOIN COLLEGE.

WE have been favored with the following account of the valuable addition lately made to the library of Bowdoin

College. Of many of the books whose titles are given, a few copies, or perhaps in some instances but the single copy mentioned below can be found in our country; and with regard to these it must be interesting to men of literature and science to know where they can be borrowed or consulted. Indeed to a man of letters, the names of books only with those of their authors convey information, and sometimes suggest thoughts not without value.

This library, previous to the rich bequest of the late Hon. James Bowdoin, consisted of about eighteen hundred volumes. More than half of these were presented by the late Madam Elizabeth Bowdoin, Benjamin Vaughan, LL. D. the Hon. George Thatcher, and other patrons of literature and science.

By the will of the late Mr. Bowdoin, his whole library, consisting of more than two thousand volumes, including a very valuable collection of atlasses and maps, was bequeathed to Bowdoin college. Besides the merits of the respective works, the typography and binding are unusually elegant,

Among the more rare and valuable of these are the following. There are many others more adapted to the use of students of the college.

Cours complet d'agriculture. Par une société d'agriculteurs, et rédi gé par M. L'Abbé Rozier. 12 tom. 4to, Paris, 1781.

Traité de la culture des Terres. Par M. Duhamel du Monceau. 6 tom. 12mo, Paris, 1753.

Colonna Traiana, eretta dal Senato, e Populo Romano, all' Impera

* Bowdoin college was founded by the legislature of this state, and endowed by them with grants of land in the District of Maine. Its name was given it in honor of Gov. Bowdoin. It resembles Harvard College in its modes of instruction and government. It has a President, the Rev, Jesse Appleton, D. D. a Professor of Languages, John Abbot, A. M. a Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, who likewise lectures on Chemistry and Mineralogy, Parker Cleaveland, A. M. and two Tutors. The number of scholars is at present between thirty and forty. A very respectable mineralogical cabinet belongs to this college. Its funds are estimated at about eighty eight thousand dollars, of which there are in real estate about fifty three thousand dollars, and in personal estate about thirty five thousand dollars. Its income in 1810 was about three thousand dollars.

tore Traiano Augusto, nel suo foro in Roma. Scolpita con l'historie della guerra Dacica, la prima e la seconda espeditione e vittoria contro il re Decebalo. Nuovamente disegnata et instagliata da Pietro Santi

Bartoli. fol.

Palazzi di Roma de più celebri architetti, disegnati da Pietro Ferrerio, Pittore et Architetto. fol.

Oeuvres Completes de J. Winkleman. Traduite de L'Allemand, avec des notes historiques et critiques de differens auteurs. 3 tom. 4to, Paris, 1794.

Encyclopedie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Metiers, Par une Société de Gens de Lettres. 39 tom. 4to, Geneve, 1777.

Traité de L'Astronomie Indienne et Orientale, Par J. S. Bailly. 4to, Paris, 1787.

Histoire de L'Astronomie Ancienne, depuis son origine jusqu'à l'etablissement de l'Ecole d' Alexandrie. Par J. S. Bailly. 4to, 2d edit. Paris, 1781.

Histoire de L'Astronomie Moderne, depuis la fondation de l'Ecole d'Alexandrie jusqu' à l'époque de 1730. Par J. S. Bailly. 3 tom. 4to, Paris, 1785.

Elégies de Tibulle, traduites en François, le texte vis-a-vis la traduition. Par Mirabeau 3 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1798.

Histoire de la République Romaine, dans le cours du VII siècle; en partie traduite du Latin de Salluste; en partie rétablie et composée sur les fragmens, qui sont restés de ses livres perdus. Par Ch. de Brosses, Prémier President du Parlement de Dijon. 3 tom. 4to, Dijon, 1777.

Oeuvres de Virgile, traduites en François, le texte vis-a-vis la traduc. tion avec des remarques. Par L'Abbé des Fontaines. 4 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1802.

Q. Horatius Flaccus, ex recensione et cum notis atque emendationibus Richardi Bentleii. 4to, Amstel, 1713.

Epigrammes de M. Val. Martial, Latines et François. 3 tom. 8vo.

Q. Horatius Flaccus, sex abhinc annos ex fide atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum, opera Dionys. Lambini emendatus. fol. Lutetiæ, 1567.

Lettres de Ciceron à Atticus, avec des remarques, et le texte Latin de l'edition de Grævius. Par L'Abbé Mongault, 4 tom, 12mo, Paris,

1787.

Tusculones de Ciceron, traduites par Messieurs Bouhier et D'Olivet. 2 tom. 12mo, Paris, 1776.

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera, ex recensione Pancratii Masvicii. 2 tom. 4to, Leovardiæ, 1717.

Biblia Latina; ex officina Roberti Stephani. fol. Parisiis, 1540.

Biblia Hebraica; eorundem Latina interpretatio, Sanctis Pagnini Lucensis, Benedicti Ariæ Montani Hispal. et quorundam aliorum collato studio, ad Hebraicam dictionem dilligentissimé expensa. 2 tom. fol. Aureliæ Allobrogum, 1619.

La Sainte Bible; traduite par L. J. Le Maistre, ou De Sacy. 32 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1725.

Biblia Sacra, Vulgate Editionis; Sixti V. Pont. Max. jussu recognita atque edita. 4to, Antwerpiæ, 1605.

La Vie du Cardinal Richlieu. 2 tom. 12mo, Cologne, 1694. Experiences sur les vegetaux. Par J. Ingen-Housz, conseiller Aulique, &c. Traduites de l'Anglois par l'auteur. 2 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1787. Le Botaniste Cultivateur; ou description, culture et usage de la plus grande partie des plantes cultivées en France et en Angleterre, rangées suivant la methode de Jussieu. Par M. du Mont de Courset, correspondant de l'Institut. &c. 5 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1802.

Systéme des Plantes, contenant les classes, ordres, genres, et especes; extract et traduit des ouvrages de Linné. Par M. J. P. Mouton

Fontenille, de l'Academie &c. 5 tom. 8vo, Lyon, 1804.

Herbier de la France. Dictionnaire Elémentaire de Botanique. His. toire des Plantes vénéneuses; et histoire des Champignons de la France. Par N. Bulliard. 10 tom. fol. Paris.

Caroli Linné Systema Plantarum. Curante D. Joanne J. Reichard, Sod. Acad. Imp. 4 tom. 8vo, Francofurti, 1779.

Systeme des Connaissances Chimiques, et de leurs applications aux phenomenes de la nature et de l'art. Par A. F. Fourcroy. 11 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1801.

Traité de Minéralogie. Par Réné Just Hauy. 5 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1801.

Traité Elémentaire de Minéralogie, avec des applications aux Arts. Par A. Brongniart. 2 tom. 8vo, Paris, 1807,

Journal des Mines; publié par l'agence des Mines de la République. 21 tom. 8vo, Paris.

The Universal Dictionary of Trade and Commerce: translated from the French of Mons. Savary, with large additions. By Malachy Postlethwait. 2 vols. fol. Lond. 1751.

An Historical and Chronological deduction of the origin of commerce from the earliest accounts. By Adam Anderson. 4 vols. 4to, London, 1787.

Dictionnaire Universel de la Géographie commerçante. Par J. Peuchet. 5 tom. 4to, Paris, 1799.