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Main Floor.

The new University building is one of the most spacious and convenient to be found on this continent. I t is 214 feet in length, with a depth on the wings of 122 feet. The above cuts exhibit a perspective view, and the plan of main floor. This building is designed wholly for public use. The library wing is fire-proof, and contains five large halls devoted to the library and various cabinets and museums. The chapel wing affords a large physical laboratory and lecture-room, and spacious draughting rooms. In the main part are thirty class rooms of good size, and also cloak and wash rooms for both sexes, store rooms, and several large halls for students' literary societies. This building is expected to be completed in September next.

The new Mechanical Building and Drill Hall, shown in the above perspective view, is of brick, 12& feet in length by 88 feet in width. I t contains a boiler and forge room; a machine shop, furnished with steam engine, lathes, and other machinery; pattern and finishing shop, and shops for carpentry, cabinet work, wood working machinery, paint rooms, printing rooms, draughting rooms, and rooms for models, finishing, etc. In the second story a large drill hall, 120 by 80 feet, sufficient, for the evolutions of a company of infantry, or a section of a battery of field artillery. One of the towers contains an armorer's shop and military model room, an artillery room, and a band room. —2