The yard extends over four acres; and the rest of the section of land devoted to the institution is judiciously left covered with groves of fine oaktrees, so that ample opportunities are afforded for agreeable and healthful exercise. Six acres of ground opposite have been reserved for a botanical garden-the gift of the city council.

The college was opened in 1839, and has a president, three professors, with the principal of the primary depart ment, professors of music and drawing, a matron, and a superintendent of domestic economy. The methods of instruction are thorough and practical. The regular course includes the French language; but Latin, Greek, and Spanish, are taught, only in extra classes. There is but one term in the year: from the first Monday in October, for ten months. Pupils are not received under twelve years of age.

OGLETHORPE UNIVERSITY.-This institution is situated at Medway, in Baldwin county, on account of its central position, in a pleasant and healthful region, being a place easily accessible from all directions. The spot is elevated, on a ridge lying east and west, two miles and a half south of Milledgeville, and ending at the bluff on Oconee river, on which are the ruins of old Fort Wilkinson. The foundation of the edifice is on a level with the top of the cupola of the statehouse; and the view is extensive on every side, embracing an undulating surface of twenty miles round, including Milledgeville.

The erection of the principal building was begun in 1836, and completed in 1838. It is of brick, two stories high, with a basement, in the Doric style; and being painted white, and of great extent, makes a striking appearance. The chapel occupies the centre, forty-eight feet by sixty, with a colonnade and vestibule. The wings are each thirty feet in front, and three stories high, with professors' and recitation rooms, while other rooms are appropriated to the library, museum, apparatus, &c. Two ranges of small buildings stand at some distance on each side, each containing two students' rons; while the house of the presi

dent stands on the south side of the campus.

The institution commenced operation in January, 1838, with six professors; and the first class was graduated in 1839. It is under the direction of the presbyterian synod of South Carolina and Georgia, but its advantages are free to all. There are two sessions in the year: one from the first Monday in January to the second Wednesday in May; after which is a vacation of four weeks. Commencement is held on the Monday succeeding the second Monday in November.

Oglethorpe university owes its origin to two manual labor schools, under the Education society of Georgia. That association was dissolved, and in 1835, the trustees of the Medway seminary, which was one of those institutions, offered it to the Hopewell presbytery, who received it, and soon constituted it a college, under their government and control, with a charter from the legislature. That charter forbids any shop to be opened, within a mile and a half of the institution, on penalty of five hundred dollars, or more; while deeds of university lots provide for the forfeiture to it of lots on which such shops may stand. This feature has since been introduced into other charters, and has doubtless prevented many of the evils to which other literary institutions are often liable.

THE FALLS OF THE TOWALIGA, eight miles from Indian springs. This picturesque scene is presented by the little river whose name it bears, at the spot where it pours down a rocky ledge, which there disturbs its generally gentle course, and gives it an aspect of wildness, elsewhere foreign to its shores.

The Towaliga has an Indian name, of uncertain import, pronounced with the accent on the last syllable. The stream has its origin in Henry county, and pursues a course of seventy miles, to the Ocmulgee, of which it is a tributary. Just before it reaches the falls (which are represented in the engraving on page 123), the bed has a rapid descent for some distance, where the surface of the water is broken in rapids, overlooked

The falls, seen from below, make an impressive appearance. The breadth of the bed is there about three hundred feet, and a mass of rock, at the brow of the first precipice, divides it into two sheets, which descend perpendicularly about fifty feet, in beautiful foam, made in the course of its tumultuous passage down the rapids. Here it is received by a deep gulf, which suddenly checks its fury; but, before it has time to recover its tranquillity, it reaches the brow of the second rapids, down which it hurries, with roar and turbulence, a distance of two hundred feet, and then pours over the second fall, in a current broken into several cascades, when it soon subsides, below, to comparative quietness. The height, roughness, and thick shade of the banks, greatly increase the effect of the scene. The reader may form some correct conception of the interesting spot, by a glance at the accompanying engraving, which is copied from a print in that elegant work, "The Scenery of Georgia," to which we have been indebted for many interesting facts on these pages. The drawing was made from the northern bank of the stream, a spot rather difficult of access, and not easily attained by many spectators, who generally find it more convenient to content themselves with a view from the opposite side. There are, however, many favorable points of view, both near and more distant, especially from some of the rude rocks which border and overhang the water, in different parts of its romantic and terrific course.

A short distance below the falls, a little island occupies the middle of the river, dividing it into two currents, which are narrow, but rapid. This vicinity was formerly a favorite resort of the deer, which visited it in considerable numbers, to feed on a peculiar kind of long and delicate plant, resembling moss, which grows to the length of two feet, in the sluices of the falls. They have,

TOCKOA FALLS.-The most remarkable waterfall in this state is that of the Tockoa creek, which flows from the southern extremity of the Alleganies, at Cunawhee mountain. It descends one hundred and eighty-seven feet, from a precipice, in a narrow stream, twenty feet in breadth, which, in the rainy season, forms an unbroken sheet of foam to the bottom. At the ordinary height of water, the supply is so small, that it is said to be dissipated in vapor before it reaches the level below.

REMARKABLE INCIDENTS IN THE HISTORY OF GEORGIA.-As we have not room to give a connected history of this state, it may be interesting to our readers if we recount a few incidents relating to some of its most important periods.

Yamacraw, the Indian name of the bluff on which Savannah now stands, was the spot on which the treaty was held with the Creek Indians by General Oglethorpe, at which the first tract of land was ceded to him. The place was then occupied by a small tribe of that nation, called the Yamacraws.

In 1733, General Oglethorpe brought out from England a band of one hundred and thirteen colonists, who landed at Charleston. They were there kindly assisted, and furnished with boats, &c., by which they were enabled to proceed to the place of destination, and soon reached the Savannah river. The following year they were joined by five or six hundred more, who were provided with tracts of wild land, but soon proved ill-qualified for the task they had undertaken, and ere long difficulties arose, as many of them had been collected from among the poor and idle population of European cities. The trustees of the colony therefore took measures to secure emigrants of a better class; and, in 1735, about four hundred arrived in Georgia, from Scotland, Switzerland, and Germany.

Mary Musgrove was the name of an Indian woman, or half-breed, who rendered material service to General Oglethorpe, in promoting his plans for the