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UNIYEBS1TY OF ILLINOIS.

along the streams, and is one of the richest farming districts in the State.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.

The land occupied by the University and its several departments, embraces about 610 acres, including stock farm, experimental farm, orchards, nurseries, forest plantation, arboretum, ornamental grounds, and military parade grounds. The Main University Building, designed wholly for public uses, occupies three sides of a quadrangle, measuring 214 feet in front and 122 feet upon the wings. The Library wing contains in spacious halls the Museum of Natural History, the Library, the Art Gallery, and the Museum of Industrial Art. The Chapel wing contains the Chapel, the Physical Laboratory and Lecture room, and rooms for drawing. In the main front are convenient class-rooms ; on the upper floor, elegant halls for literary societies. The building is warmed by steam. The Mechanical Building and Drill Hall is of brick, 126 feet in length, and 88 feet in width. It contains a boilerroom, a machine shop, furnished for practical use with a steam engine and lathes, and other machinery; pattern and finishing shop; testing laboratory ; shops for carpentry and cabinet work, furnished with wood-working machinery. The blacksmith shop, 32 by 36 feet, contains sixteen forges with anvils and tools, and a cupola for melting iron. In the second story is the large Drill Hall, 124 by 80 feet, sufficient for the evolutions of a company of infantry or a section of a battery of field artillery. It is also supplied with gymnastic apparatus. The Chemical Building, erected in 1878, at a cost, including furniture, of $40,000, contains five laboratories, and is one of the best and largest in the United States. There are in addition, a Veterinary Hall, a small Astronomical Observatory, two dormitories, three dwellings, two large barns, and a green-house.