. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . the horizon, the blueridojes of the Navesink Hio-hlauds trace thecurving line of the coast. On the east, are therolling foot-hills of the mountains, growing morerugged towards the north, while the westernplain slopes gently to the Delaware founders are Justified in regarding theirnew home as not inferior in the salubrity of itsair, to any village on the continent. Unfortunately for this generation, no gossip-ing old traveller seems to have gone throughNew Jersey in 1756, and we do not know ex-actly how thino^s looked to the new student
. Princeton sketches. The story of Nassau hall . the horizon, the blueridojes of the Navesink Hio-hlauds trace thecurving line of the coast. On the east, are therolling foot-hills of the mountains, growing morerugged towards the north, while the westernplain slopes gently to the Delaware founders are Justified in regarding theirnew home as not inferior in the salubrity of itsair, to any village on the continent. Unfortunately for this generation, no gossip-ing old traveller seems to have gone throughNew Jersey in 1756, and we do not know ex-actly how thino^s looked to the new chances are, however, that such a travellerwould have seen a town very similar to thatwhich met the eyes of the Marquis de Chastel-lux when he went through in 1780. The Mar-quis has left us an aged and time-stained volumeof Travels in North America, in which he tellsus that beyond Kings Town, the country be-gins to open and continues so to Prince town is situated on a sort of platform notmuch elevated, bnt which commands on all. IN GOOD OLD COLONY DAYS. 1/ sides; it has only one street, formed by thehigh road ; there are abont sixty or eightyhouses, all tolerably well-built, but little atten-tion is paid to them, for that is immediately at-tracted by an immense building, which is visibleat a considerable distance. It is a college builtby the State of Jersey some years before thewar. It is situated towards the middle of thetown, on a distinct spot of ground, and the en-trance to it is by a large square court, surroundedby lofty palisades. This square court wasthat part of the campus in front of Old late as 1764 it was without a single tree,and the only harbinger of our glorious elmswas a solitary bush in the yard before thePresidents house (now the Deans). The twolarge sycamores standing before the Deanshouse were planted by order of the Trustees in1765, to commemorate the resistance to theStam[) Act. In those days of classical models, college lifewas a
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