This lady, whose affection never failed him, was the intimate friend of his mother as well as a distant relative of his father.

Young Gallatin remained in this kind care until January, 1773, when he was sent to a boarding-school, and in August, 1775, to the academy of Geneva, from which he was graduated in May, 1779.

The expenses of his education were in great part met by the trustees of the Bourse Gallatin,--a sum left in 1699 by a member of the family, of which the income was to be applied to its necessities.

The course of study at the academy was confined to Latin and Greek.

These were taught, to use the words of Mr.Gallatin, "Latin thoroughly, Greek much neglected." Fortunately his preliminary home training had been careful, and he left the academy the first in his class in mathematics, natural philosophy, and Latin translation.