The whole course of instruction occupies four
years. In each year there are three terms or
sessions. Commencement is held on the last
Thursday in July. Instruction is given in all
the higher branches of education by able pro-
fessors, and connected with the college is a law,
medical, and theological department. Imme-
diately back of the line of the college buildings
is the library, a Gothic structure 151 feet long,
with towers, the extreme height of which is 91
feet. It contains the college library, now become
one of the most valuable in the country, which
was during the last century enriched by donations
from distinguished men, among whom were J.
Dummer, Sir John Davie, Governor Yale, (from
whom the college derives its name,) and Bishop
Berkeley. Besides this, the building contains
the large and valuable libraries belonging to the
different college societies. The total number of
volumes in the edifice is 52,000.- The mineral-
ogical cabinet, another large building, is situated
in the rear of the line of college edifices. It con-
tains the great cabinet of Colonel Gibbs, consist-
ing of 10,000 specimens, collected by him in
Europe during the revolutionary period there, at
the commencement of the. present century, to-
gether with very large subsequent additions.

The Trumbull Gallery, erected in 1831, stand-
ing back of the line of the college buildings, con-
tains the paintings of Colonel John Trumbull,
the aid of Washington, and the father of Ameri-
can historical painting. His remains, with those
of his wife, are interred in a vault beneath this
building. Besides eight principal subjects of the
American revolution, there are nearly two hun-
dred and fifty portraits of persons distinguished
during that period, painted by him front life.
Back of the centre church, on the public square
or green, are buried the remains of Colonel John
Dixwell, one of the judges of King Charles I.,
and near by, if tradition be correct, those of the
regicide generals, Goffe and Whalley. Colonel
Dixwell's remains, after a lapse of 161 years,
were reinterred by his relatives in 1849, and a
tasteful and durable monument was erected, and
placed in the charge of the public authorities.
The public burying ground, at the north-western
corner of the original town plot, is tastefully laid
out with trees and shrubbery, and is surrounded
by a high and durable stone wall, with an ele-
gant Egyptian gateway and iron fence in front.
Within the enclosure are the monuments of
Colonel Humphreys, the aid of Washington, Eli
Whitney, the inventor of the cotton gin, Jehudi
Ashmun, the first colonial agent at Liberia, Noah
Webster, the author of the American Dictionary
of the English Language, and other distinguished
men.

The harbor of New Haven is protected from
winds, but is rather shallow. To remedy its de-
fects, a wharf has been constructed extending
into the bay 3943 feet. The commercial busi-
ness of the city is considerable, particularly with
the West Indies, and by the recent construction
of railroads in various directions its general busi-
ness has been much extended. The manufac-
turing business of the city is quite important, par-
ticularly that of carriage making. Besides the
twelve college edifices situated at the W. side of
the public square, the city contains twenty-two
churches, viz., eight Congregational, three Epis-
copal, five Methodist, three Baptist, two Catholic,
and one Universalist; a medical college, state
house, custom house, five banks, a jail, state hos-
pital, and the large and elegant railroad station
building in the central part of the city. The
new Green, or Wooster Square, is destined to be
a beautiful place, and the new burying ground,
Evergreen Cemetery, situated at the western
extremity of the city, is laid out with much taste.
New Haven covers a great extent of ground for a
city of its population. A large proportion of the
houses have court yards in front and gardens in
the rear. Besides Yale College, there is in this
place quite a number of high schools for the
education of both sexes, among which are seven
seminaries or schools for the education of young
ladies. The superior literary advantages to be
found in New Haven, and the high standing of
the resident professors, in the various depart-
ments of science, have given the place a wide
literary reputation.