. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. FEMALE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, GEORGETOWN, WESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTK, GEORGETOWN, KY. SCOTT COUNTY. 507 forty-five feet square, two stories high, with a cupola. The lowerstory accommodates the preparatory department, and the upperfurnishes two good halls for the voluntary societies connectedwith the college. The lawn embraces about sixteen acres, beau-tifully elevated, and laid out with trees and shrubbery. The library contains about four
. Historical sketches of Kentucky : embracing its history, antiquities, and natural curiosities, geographical, statistical, and geological descriptions. FEMALE COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE, GEORGETOWN, WESTERN MILITARY INSTITUTK, GEORGETOWN, KY. SCOTT COUNTY. 507 forty-five feet square, two stories high, with a cupola. The lowerstory accommodates the preparatory department, and the upperfurnishes two good halls for the voluntary societies connectedwith the college. The lawn embraces about sixteen acres, beau-tifully elevated, and laid out with trees and shrubbery. The library contains about four thousand volumes, many ofthem rare and valuable ; besides a large collection of ancient andmodern maps, charts, &c. The philosophical apparatus is of themost recent construction, and has been procured at great includes a standing telescope, for astronomical observations,Chamlains great air-pump, fine magnetic and galvanic imple-ments, and abundant means of illustrating mechanical experiments are given ; and the cabinets of minerals,fossils, shells, and natural productions, furnish many facilities inthe natural sciences. The institution began its chartered exist
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