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A seminary was founded to supply schools with able and exemplary masters. In this institution Riber took the lead. It was enacted, that no person should be qualified for the situa­ tion of school master, who had not attended this seminary three years. It was open to every one, and that men in straightened circum­ stances, as the sons of peasants, with abilities, might not be precluded from its advantages, the price for maintenance and instruction was fixed at the rate of forty dollars yearly. Inde­ pendent of reading, writing, and accounts, they are instructed in astronomy, mathematics, geo­ graphy, natural history, gardening, and every requisite to diffuse useful knowledge among their pupils. Mr. Riber only lived a few years, but he had the satisfaction to see those plans prosper to which he had devoted his principal atten­ tion. He was succeeded by Mr. Guldberg, (nephew of the Rev. Mr. Hoegh, in Gientofte) who is by birth a nobleman ; but, though for­ tune favoured him thus highly, nature was still more bountiful; she endowed him with a ge- G 2