Can any state in the union furnish more than 5. The Visitors should receive no pay. Such qualifications are properly rewarded by honor, not by money. Their first objects will be the special location. A word on each.
Special location needs no explanation.
Having for some years entertained the hope that our country would some day establish an institution on a liberal scale, I have been taking measures to have in readiness such materials as would require time to collect. I have from Dr. Priestley a designation of the branches of science grouped into professorships which he furnished at my request. He was an excellent judge of what may be called the old studies, of those useful and those useless. I have the same thing from Mr. Dupont , a good judge of the new branches. His letter to me is quite a treatise.