Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . chape-ron Avith an alacrity and good-humor that fully justified Do-ras good opinion of his man-ners. Indeed, says Crayon, itgives me great pleasure to saythat, although the vivacity ofthese blooded colts at ourVirginia colleges frequentlyleads them into all sorts ofdeviltries and excesses, theyhave almost invariably the2 manners of frentlemen. •J o > The University was estab-° lished by an act of Assembly1 dated January 25, 1819, upons the site of the Central Col-s leo:e o
Virginia illustrated : containing a visit to the Virginian Canaan, and the adventures of Porte Crayon and his cousins . chape-ron Avith an alacrity and good-humor that fully justified Do-ras good opinion of his man-ners. Indeed, says Crayon, itgives me great pleasure to saythat, although the vivacity ofthese blooded colts at ourVirginia colleges frequentlyleads them into all sorts ofdeviltries and excesses, theyhave almost invariably the2 manners of frentlemen. •J o > The University was estab-° lished by an act of Assembly1 dated January 25, 1819, upons the site of the Central Col-s leo:e of Albemarle. It wa^planned, built, and organizedunder the immediate super-vision of Mr. JetFerson. The students dormitories,professors houses, and class-rooms, are built upon threesides of a quadrangle, and areconnected by a continuouscolonnade. Outside of these,at some distance, are secondlines of dormitories and of-fices, the space between theranges being occupied by well-cultivated gardens. The Vvdiole has a very pleasing and pretty ef-fect, but the buildings are too low, and the architecture w^ants THE UNIVERSITY OF VIKGINIA. 243 Although this institution was an especial pet of its distin-guished founder, and bequeathed by him to the fostering care oiour venerable Commonwealth, it was not eminently successful inits early years. Latterly, however, it seems to be taking the po-sition that it should have attained long ago, and its present cata-logue shows over five hundred students. The ladies were so much delighted with every thing they saw,and had so much to say about the students, that Crayon began togrow morose and cynical. Women, said he, always make the most fuss about mattersof which they know the least. They are prodigious admirers oflearning, or, more strictly speaking, the name of learning; forany owlish fellow who gets a reputation for profundity, or mala-pert who has written verses for a magazine, is, in their estimation,a Newton or a Milton. While they
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