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Rev'd Sir,
I arrived at this place on the
31st of Octor and on the second day after my
arrival entered into the business of the class.
There has not as yet been a meeting of the
trustees of the University, so as formally to
appoint me to the profesorship, but there
will be one either the last of this month
or in the beginning of the next. Mr Harris
will then present his resignation and pro-
=pose me as his successor. The university is
almost entirely in infancy. The place ap-
=pears to have been cut out of the woods.
Only one of the buildings and that of the
smaller kind is finished. The trustees are
endeavouring to engage an undertaker for the
largest which will be 115 feet long and 56
broad. It will stand at right angles to the
two smallest. The foundation is laid for a
chapel, but when it will be completed is
entirely uncertain, as the mason and his
negroes have spent the favorable fall they
have had in raising the foundation to the
surface of the ground. The agreement speci-
=fies that the building is to be finished on
the first of July. The sum of money which
the trustees offer for the largest building is
10 or 12000 £. Then are upwards of 100
students here. A majority of them however
belong to the preparatory school. The school
is connected with the university, and is kept