36 MEMOIR OF DR. WALKER. 



with Charles Tawse, the schoolmaster. The minis- 

 ter, however, and the gentlemen of the country , 

 gave him an ample character, and a very good ac- 

 count of the state of the school, at which there 

 were thirty-five scholars attending upon the 1st of 

 August. 



<fc Upon the 1 6th of August, I visited the society's 

 school kept at Stornoway in the Lewes. In No- 

 vember 1763, Neil M'Leod was appointed master 

 of this school by the society; but giving up his 

 charge on the 19th of June 1764, the Rev. Mr. 

 Clark, minister of the parish, and Mr. M'Gillander, 

 Mr. M'Kenzie of Seaforth's factor, with the appro- 

 bation of the presbytery, appointed, in his place, 

 Alexander Anderson, who now officiates, and gives 

 general satisfaction in the place, and this appoint- 

 ment they hope will be confirmed by the society. 

 On the day I examined this school, it contained 

 fifty-two scholars, from five to fifteen years of age, 

 which was the most numerous of any I saw in the 

 Highlands or Islands, and it had been still more 

 numerous in winter. The progress they- were then 

 making in reading, writing, arithmetic, and in the 

 principles of religion, was truly surprising, consider- 

 ing their great number and the small appointment 

 of the master, which is only eight pounds ; and I 

 doubt if there be so much service performed, for so 

 little money, by any of the society's servants. 



" The other school kept by the society at Knock, 

 in the parish of Stornoway, of which Murdoch 

 M'Aulay is master, I had not the opportunity to 



