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COXE’S TRAVELS IN RUSSIA. 615
lica Inftitutiones ; and experimental philofophy from Kruger’s Compendium. 4. On
ancient and modern hiltory. _§. Introduétion to the knowledge of moral philofophy,
from Bielfield’s Inflitutes. 6. On clinic medicine, or the remedies ufed by ancient
and modern phyficians, from Vogel’s Compendium. 7. On the pandeéts, from the
Compendium of Heineccius, and a comparifon between the Roman and Ruffian law ;
eight hours a week. Profeflor Defaitfky, who reads this leture, teaches alfo the Eng-
lith language from a Grammar compiled by himfelf; four hours a week. 8. Logic
and metaphyfics from Baumeifter’s logic, eight hours ; and four geometry and trigo-
nometry, from Weidler. 9. On phyfic under the following heads; pathology, diete-
tics, and therapeutics, from Ludwig’s Compendium. 10. On botany, .after the fyftem
of Linnzus. 11. Anatomy from Ludwig. 12. On the etymology, fyntax, and
ftyle of the French tongue; eight hours. 13. Etymology, fyntax, and ftyle of the
German.
Befide the univerfity, there are two gymnafia, or feminaries, for the education of
youth, endowed alfo by Elizabeth, in which are taught divinity, claflics, philofophy,
the Greek, Latin, Ruffian, German, French, Italian, and Tartar languages ; hiftory,
geography, mathematics, algebra, architeCture, fortification, artillery, drawing and
painting, mufic, fencing, dancing, reading, and writing. ‘There are twenty-three pro-
feflors; among{t thefe, the Syllabus informed me, that Mr. Alexief teaches divinity
two hours in the week. Mr. Mattheei, profeflor and rector of both feminaries, ex-
plains fome of Cicero’s Orations and felect Epiftles, Libanius’s Letters, Ernefti’s ora-
torical Effays, Xenophon’s Anabafis, teaches the Roman antiquities from Burman’s
Compendium, and continues his ufual Latin exercifes upon oratory. Mr. Sinkovéki,
every morning from feven to nine, treats of the principles of rhetoric, particularly con.
cerning the Periodologia, both as to theory and practice, from Burgius’s Elementa Ora-
toria ; explains Czfar’s Commentaries and Juftin; employs his fcholars in Latin and
Ruffian tranflations, and in the etymology and fyntax of the Greek tongue; reads Plu-
tarch wep: IIruxns3 and, from nine to twelve on Mondays, Wednefdays, and Satur-
days, Ovid’s Metamorphofis, and conneéts mythology with ancient hiftory and geo-
graphy. Mr. Tfherbotaref, extraordinary profeffor of logic and morality, and under-
librarian to the univerfity, four hours in the week, comments upon Heineccii elementa
philofophia rationalis et moralis, as well in the original Latin, as in the Ruffian * tranfla-
tion, for the benefit of thofe who are unacquainted with the Latin tongue. Mr. Ur-
banfki gives inftructions in rhetoric from the Compendium of Burgius, both in theory
and practice. Mr. Holberftof explains Count Teflin’s Letters to a young Prince f.
The account of the Greek manufcripts in the library of the Holy Synod at Mofcow,
prefented to me by the dire€tor, bore this title: ‘ Notitia codicum manufcriptorum
Graecorum Bibliothecarum Mofquenfium fanctiffimae fynodi Ecclefiae orthodoxae Graeco-
Rufficae, cum variis anecdotis, tabulis aeneis et indicibus locupletifiimis. Edidit Chriftianus
Fredericus Matthaei, Gymnafiorum Univerfitatis Mofquenfis Rector. Mofquae, typis Uni-
verfitatis, Anno 1776,” folio. The author is Chriftian Frederic Matthai, a learned
German, who was educated at Leipfic under the celebrated Ernefti, and had already
difplayed his erudition by feveral excellent editions of the claflics. Being drawn to:
Mofcow by the liberality of the Emprefs, he was appointed a profeffor of this univerfity.
Soon after his arrival, he turned his attention to the ftate.of Greek literature, and ex-
* Jis precipue, quilingue Latine funt ignari, nec fua fludia academica in univerfitate ulterius profequi
poffunt.
+ The King of Sweden when Prince Royak
plored
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