bo o k \ y e next proceeded to the univerfity-library, which, con-
, i tains a fmall collection of books, and a moderate apparatus
of experimental philofophy.
Upon taking leave of the director, he obligingly prefented
me with a Tartar Grammar, which language is -taught in
this fociety, a Syllabus of a year’s leCtures, and a Catalogue
of the Greek Manufcripts in the library of the Holy Synod.
The following extradt from the Syllabus * will difplay to
the reader the general lludies, and the principal books ufed
in this univerfity for the inftruCtion of the ftudents.
i . A courfe of leCtures on the Hiftory of the Ruffian Law,
on Nettelbadianus, Syftema\ univerfce Jurifprydentia, and on
the Jus Cambíale; eight hours in the week. a. On Cicero’s
Orations againft Catiline, the fixth book of Virgil’s-
Eneid, plays of Plautus and Terence, inftruCtions on the
manner of writing Latin and Ruffian verfes from the examples
of Lomonofof and Horace; an expofition of the panegyrical
orations of Lomonofof, together with tranflations
and exercifes in Latin and Ruffian profe : eight hours in the
week. 3. On arithmetic, trigonometry, and optics,, from
Weidler’s Mathematics lnfiitutiones; and experimental philofophy
from Kruger’s Compendium. 4. On ancient and.
modern hiftory. 5. Introduction to the knowledge of mo-
rift philofophy, from Bielfield’s Inftitutes. 6. On clinic medicine,
or the remedies ufed by antient and modern phyfi-
cians, from Vogel’s Compendium. 7. On the pandeCts from-
the-compendium ó f Heineccius, and a companion between
the Roman and Ruffian law: eight hours in the week.-
Frofeffior'Defaitiky, who reads this'lecture,- teaches alfo the*
* It is entitled “ Catalogus pnelcSliomim publicarum in Univerlitate Ctefarea Mol-
“ quenii
3 Engliih
Engliih language from a Grammar compiled by himfelf : chap-.
four hours in the week, .8, Logic and metaphyfics from > •
Baumeifter’s logic, eight hours in the week; and four hours
geometry and trigonometry from Weidler. 9. On phyfic,
under the following heads, pathology, diatetics,. and therapeutics,
from Ludwig’s compendium. 10. On Botany, after
the fyftem of Linnaeus. 1 1 . Anatomy from Ludwig.
12.. On the etymology, fyntax,, and ftyle of the French
tongue eight hours in the week. 13. Etymology,iyntax,.
and ftyle of the German.
Befide the univerfity, there are two gy.mnafia, or femina-
ries, for the education of youth, endowed alfo by Elizabeth,
in which are taught divinity, claffics, philofophy, the Greek,
Latin, Ruffian, German, French, Italian, and Tartar languages;
hiftory, geography, mathematics, architecture, fortification,
artillery, algebra, drawing and painting, mufic,.
fencing, dancing, reading and writing. There are twenty-
three profeflbrs :. amongft thefe, the Syllabus informed me,,
that Mr. Alexief teaches divinity two hours in the week.
Mr. Matthaei, profeflbr and reClor of both feminaries, explains
fome .of Cicero’s Orations and feleCt Epiftles, Libanius’s L e tters,
Ernelii’s oratorical efiays, Xenophon’s ..Anabajls, teaches-
the Roman antiquities, from Burman’s compendium, and
continues his ufual Latin exercifes upon oratory, Mr. Sin—
kov-iki,, every morning from feven to nine, treats o f the
principles o f rhetoric, particularly concerning the Periodo-
logia, both as to theory and practice, from Burgius’s Elemental
Qratoria ; -explains Ccefar’s Commentaries and J.uftin ; employs
his fcholars in Latin and Ruffian tranflations, and in
the etymology and fyntax o f the Greek tongue : reads Plutarch
U iv / j } ; .and, from, nine to twelve on Mondays,..
Wedhcfdays,,