234 «© letter from a country schoolmaster. May 303 
wall consisted, in every part of it, of an immense heap. 
of loose stones, the defendants could never be ata lois 
for weapons wherever the attack was made *. 
Many hills are fortified in this manner through all 
the northern parts of Scotland: I have heard of none - 
of this kind that have as yet been discovered, farther: 
south than the fhire of Angus; but it is pofsible 
that others of the same kind may be yet discovered 
that Have not hitherto been taken notice of. I think 
governor Pownal mentions some in a memoir-lately 
given in by him to the Antiquary Society. Ihave 
not the memoir here, and therefore cannot consult 
it ; but a-little attention will soon discover if-it is of 
the same kind with that which is here descrrbed +. 
Io be continued. 
A‘ LETTER FROM A SCHOOLMASTER. 
Sir, To the Editor of the Bee. 
Iy this age, so much famed for learning, and encou-. 
ragement given to the learned, it is extraordinary 
that we schoolmasters have been so much neglected, . 
and left almost in a state of beggary. It must be 
allowed that we are very useful members of society, 
we may then justly claim a competent subsistence 
as a reward for our labour. But whether the pre- 
sent salaries and emoluments be suflicient for thaé- 
purpose, let the candid reader judge, when he its in- 
* In some of the hills thus fortified, there is snother iodo liar: 
sometimes two, deawa round the hill nearer the base, which has pio-. 
bably been intended for the security of cattle, they will be more particu-~- 
larly noted in the sequel. 
+ iSee the governor’s account of Penman Mawr. Archaeol, vol. iii. 303... 
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