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The plan of the establishment, with respect to the lands,—admits, in the out- line, of no alternative. They will.re- quire to be divided, as their given cir- cumstances shall point out, into two parts. The larger division to be: laid out as a common farm’; and to be managed on the best plan of established practice:— as a school, or academy, for initiating pupils; and as a place of observation, and improvement, for students in general; agreeably to the outline already sub- mitted.

The other division of the lands to be appropriated, particularly, to improve~ ments: to experiments, in every branch of the art, and every principle of the sci- ence;.as well as to prove, by repetition, newly discovered practices,—whether by the institute, or by others,—before they be admitted into the school of practice, or recommended to public adoption.

The buildings, requisite for the prac- tical farm, will be a convenient suit of