JL HE colleges and public eftablifhments, the roads, buildings, &c?
The college of William and Mary is the only public feminary of learning in this ftate. It was founded in the time of king William and queen Mary, who granted to it 20,000 arces of land, and.a penny a pound duty on certain tobaccoes exported from Virginia and Maryland, which had been levied by the ftatute of 25 Car. II. The affembly alfo gave it, by temporary laws^ a duty on liquors im- ported, and ikins and furs exported. From thefe refources it received upwards of 3000I. communibus annis. The build- ings are of brick, fufRcient for an indif- ferent accommodation of perhaps an hun- dred ftudents. By its charter it was to be under the government of twenty vifi- tors, who were to be its legiflators, and to have a prefident and fix profeflbrs, who were incorporated. It was allowed a t 294 ] reprefentative in the general aflembly.
Under this charter, a profeflbrfhip of the Greek and Latin languages, a profeflbr- Ihip of mathematics, one of moral phi- lofophy, and two of divinity, were efta- blifhed. To thefe were annexed, for a fixth profeflbrfhip, a confiderable donation by Mr. Boyle of England, for the in- ftru6lion of the Indians, and their conver- fion to Chriftianity. This was called the profeflbrfhip of BrafFerton, from an eftate of that name in England, purchafed with the monies given. The admiffion of the learners of Latin and Greek filled the college with children. This rendering it difagreeable and degrading to young gen- tlemen already prepared for entering on the fciences, they were difcouraged from reforting to it, and thus the fchools for mathematics and moral philofophy, which might have been of fome fervice, became of very little. The revenues too were exhaufled in accommodating thofe who came only to acquire the