The university is in a flourishing state, and has a true taste of polite literature, especially as to philosophical studies. Tho I know not whether they merit that character with regard to classical learning. It is not now so numerous as formerly; because _Hall_, which within these ten years has been erected into an university by the King of _Prussia_, depriving them of their numbers, has reduced them perhaps from three to one thousand students. They have six colleges, called _Paulinum_, _Petrinum_, _Majorum_ and _Minorum Principum_, _Rubrum_, and _B. Mariae Virginis_. Each of these have their _praepositus_, and some few stipends. But when we mention academical colleges abroad, we must fall much below the idea of those, with which we are so happily acquainted at _Oxford_ and _Cambridge_. In these colleges are their auditories, or schools, of public lectures for philosophy, and the three superior faculties. These are regularly taught by their respective professors, of which the university is furnished with six in divinity, five in law, four in physic, and nine in philosophy, humanity, and history. Besides these, several of the more eminent doctors, and elder students, have their private lectures, to which the younger resort at their pleasure, and this with greater frequency and better success, than to the lectures publicly established. The degrees in philosophy are that of batchelor and master of arts; in the faculties, of licentiate and doctor. Persons of note in the university, whom I visited, were Dr. _Efficke_ professor of divinity; and Dr. _Otto Menchenius_ professor of moral philosophy, who is likewise the editor of the _Acta Eruditorum_, of which I purchased an intire set from the year 1682 to this present time, consisting of twenty five volumes in _quarto_. Other eminent persons, with whom I had a more frequent conversation, were Dr. _Goëtze_, Dr. _Menchenius junior_, and Mr. _Olearius junior_. The two former are doctors of law, and the latter professor of humanity. To these I may add Mr. _Thomas Fritsel_ bookseller, a person who has made an useful tour over Europe; speaks several modern languages, as well as Latin; and to whom I was obliged for a particular mark of courtesy, and the present of several useful books. Not only he, but the three gentlemen last mentioned speak good English, which language is much esteemed and studied in this place. Dr. _Menchenius_ shewed me the little work of _Alcyonius De exilio_, which I was glad to see, because it is said to have been compiled out of _Cicero’s_ treatise _De gloria_; which the plagiary for that reason took occasion to suppress. Dr. _Goëtze_ among several fair manuscripts, and old editions of classic authors, shewed me a neat but antient satyr _On the Pope and Court of Rome_. It is a manuscript, as yet unprinted, in Elegiac verse, entitled _Eironeia Gaufridi_. He has also a curious and fair manuscript of _Columella_, another of a Greek _Menologion_, a very