Now, Know Ye, that the said Regents having inquired into the allegations contained iu the said Instrument in writing aforesaid, and found the same to be true, and concerning the said Academy calculated for the Promotion of Literature, Do, by these Presents, pursuant to the State in such case made and provided, signify our approbation of the Incorporation of the said Ebcnezcr Purely, John Dehvan, Solomon Close, Samuel Barnam, Benjamin Wood, Thaddcus Close, Philip Livingston, Benjamin Haight, Uriah Wallace, Hackaliah Brown, Ebenezer Lockwood, John Davenport, John Strong, Silas Constant, Ichabod Lewis, Samuel Mills, Philip von Cortlandt, Jonathan G. Tomkins, Thomas Thomas, Jesse Tinesdale and Isaac Keeler, the Trustees of the said academy, as aforesaid named by the Founders thereof, by the name of the Trustees of the Academy of Norflh Salem, in the County of West Chester, being the name mentioned in and by the said request in writing. In Testimony, whereof, we have caused our Common seal to be hereunto affixed the eighteenth day of March, iu the fourteenth year of American Independence. Witness, George Clinton, Esquire, Ctiancellor of tlie University.

GEORGE CLINTON, Chancellor.

By order of the Regents, Rich. Harrison, Secretary*

About half a mile west of the Academy is to be seen a singular phenomenon, called the Natural Bridge. " Here are two streams which meet and run under the road, the one flowing from the east along the road-side, enters the ground twenty-five or thirty feet east of where it seems to cross the road ; the stream from the north-east, appears to run nearly straight, directly under the road, and issues from the earth again, after falling ten or fifteen feet lower than where it enters ; but the place where it issues from the earth, is, at least, twenty-five feet perpendicular, the top of which precipice is within ten or fifteen feet from the side of the road.