Prof.Stewart says: The day after my arrival, I was put into the hands of an excellent New England gentleman, who was to show me through the Institute.

He took me first to the barn, a large and substantial building in which are stored the products of the farm, and in which the stock have their shelter.

We ascended a winding staircase, reached the top, and looked down upon the Institute grounds with their wide shell-paved walls, grassplots, flower-beds, orchards, groves and many buildings--the whole full of life, and giving evidence of abundant prosperity, and surrounded by a beautiful and charming country.

We came down and began our rounds through "the little world" in which almost every phase of human life has its existence.
We went into the shoe-making department.

It is in the upper part of a two-story brick building.