rudiments of fcience. After the prefent revolution, the vifitors, having no power to change thofe circumftances in the conftitution of the college which were fixed by the charter, and being therefore confined in the num- ber of prefefforfhips, undertook to change the objedis of the profeflbrfhips. They excluded the two fchools for divinity, and that for the Greek and Latin languages, and fubftituted others ; fo that at prefent they ftand thus A Profeflbrfhip for Law and Police;
Anatomy and Medicine:
Natural Philofophy and Mathemetics:
Moral Philofophy, the Law of Na- ture and Nations, the Fine Arts: Modern Languages:
For the BrafFerton.
And it is propofed, fo foon as the legif- lature fhall have leifure to take up this fubjeft, to defire authority from them to increafe the number of profeflbrfhips, as well for the purpofe of fubdividing thofe already inftituted, as of adding others for other branches of fcience. To the pro- feflbrfliips ufually eftablifhed in the uni- verfities of Europe, it would feem pro- per to add one for the ancient languages and literature of the North, on the ac- count of their connexion with our own language, laws, cuftoms, and hiflory. The purpofes of the BrafFerton inftitution would be better anfwered by maintaining a perpetual miffion among the Indian tribes, the object of which, befides inftrutSing them in the principles of Chriftianity, as the founder requires, Ihould be to collect:
their traditions, laws, cuftoms, languages, and other circumftances which might lead to a difcovery of their relation with one another, or defcent from other nations. When thefe objedts are accompliihed with one tribe, miffionary might pafs on to another.