EDUCATION.
The subscriber respectfully informs the Citizens of Salisbury and the the adjacent country, that he will open a private Seminary, in this place, on Tuesday the 6th instant. Young Gentlemen will be carefully taught the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and French Languages; together with Prosody, History, Geography, and Antiquities, connected with the Classics— Reading, Writing, Arithmetic, Book-Keeping (according to the true Italian method) English Grammar, Composition, Geography, with the Use of the Globes and Maps, Elocution, Elementary and Practical parts of Mathematics, Rhetoric, Belles Letters, Moral and Natural Philosophy, Astronomy, etc.
Persons intending to place Children in this Seminary, will greatly facilitate their progress, by sending them early in the session.
Salisbury, July 5. Robert L. Edmonds, A. M.
—Raleigh Register, July 16, 1819.
(Source: North Carolina Schools and Academies, 1790-1840, By Charles L. Coon 1914)
