"The whole pile extends its front, including the buttresses above the base, one hundred and fifty-one feet. The front of the main building, measured in the same way, is fifty-one feet; and its depth, from front to rear, is ninety-five feet. The front of each of the extreme wings is thirty feet, and the depth sixty-seven feet. The connecting wings are each twenty-six feet by forty between the walls. The extreme height of the towers is ninety-one feet.

"The main building, designed to contain the College library, will include only one room, the interior measurement of which will be forty-one feet by eighty-three. It will resemble in form a Gothic chapel, with its nave and aisles. The height of the nave will be fifty-one feet; its breadth seventeen feet. Between the clustered pillars of the nave, there will be alcoves, as shown in the ground plan, fourteen in number, and each ten feet by twelve in extent. A gallery is to extend on all sides of the room, and is to contain the same number of alcoves. The ceiling is to be finished with groined arches.

"The extreme wings, and the south connecting wing, will be finished for the several society libraries, with alcoves and galleries, and shelves for books above the galleries. The north connecting wing will contain a suite of rooms for the libra

rian, and a reading-room, in which books may be consulted at all times.

"The walls are of red sandstone, from the quarries at Portland, on the Connecticut River. The roofs are covered with tin; and though the several buildings are thrown into one pile, for convenience, as well as for architectural reasons, each library occupies a fire-proof building by itself, completely separated from the others. Thus the security against fire is about as nearly perfect as the nature of the case will permit.

"The entire cost of the building when completed, is expected to fall short of thirty thousand dollars.'

* New Englander for July, 1843.

SECTION VII.

TRUMBULL GALLERY.

THE Trumbull Gallery was erected in 1831, for the reception of the paintings of Col. John Trumbull. These were deposited in the College by Col. Trumbull, to become the property of the Institution, after his decease, upon the condition that the proceeds of their exhibition shall be devoted to the support of indigent students.

The following account of the Gallery is taken from Vol. XXXIX. of the Am. Journal of Science.

The basement of this building is appropriated to offices and other purposes, and the space above is divided into two apartments, each thirty feet square and four feet high, lighted from the sky. One of these rooms, that which is first entered, is devoted to miscellaneous collections of pictures, statuary, antiquities, &c. ; the second room is the Trumbull Gallery; all the pictures which it contains are the productions of the pencil of Col. Trumbull, excepting only his own portrait by Waldo and Jewett.

The father of American Historical Painting still survives in the vigor of his faculties; at the age of eighty-four, his eye has not become dim, nor has the force of his mind, the vividness of his imagination, or the delicacy of his touch, abated. Of this any observer will be convinced who sees the six paintings now in the Gallery, which have been done within the last five or six years.

In relation to his historical pictures he enjoys the rare advantage of a personal acquaintance with the individuals whose portraits he has preserved, and of having participated in their dangers and sufferings.

The Trumbull Gallery contains the earliest, and hitherto, the best historical paintings which the