LEAKSVILLE ACADEMY, 1828.
THE public are informed that the operations of this institution has now commenced; in which are taught the sciences, the Latin and Greek languages, and English Grammar at thirty dollars per annum. The buildings are spacious and convenient. To this institution is connected an English School, in which are taught Reading, Writing, Arithmetic and the branches usually taught in English Schools, at twenty dollars per annum, payable semi-annually in advance. This Academy is situated in a high, healthy, and fertile part of the country, and exempt from the diseases incident to most sections of it. Board may be had in the most genteel families at from 8 to 12 dollars per month—The subscriber flatters himself that he will meet with further encouragement, as he intends to discharge as faithfully as he can the duties of the institution to which he has been called—It may not be improper here to state for the information of the young men who may think proper to resort to this institution, that there is a debating society composed of the young men of this place and its vicinity, which has for its object the improvement of the mind; and the collection of a library of valuable books.                                                                          John Silliman.
December 1819.