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examine, but was informed that it was always at- 

 tended by upwards of thirty scholars, and that the 

 master was diligent and successful. 



" Upon August the 25th, I had an account of 

 the society's school, erected some months before in 

 the parish of Gerloch in Ross-shire, from Sir Alex- 

 ander M'Kenzie of Gerloch and the minister of the 

 parish. This school, of which James Herdman is 

 master, was granted by the society, with ten pounds 

 salary, on condition that the heritors should add a 

 hundred merks to their appointment. This the 

 heritors have accordingly done, and were to build, 

 this last summer, a convenient school-house at their 

 own expense. This new school deserves the parti- 

 cular attention of the society, as it is the only 

 school in that extensive parish, which contains two 

 thousand eight hundred people, of whom there are 

 not above twenty persons who can read English, 

 exclusive of the gentlemen and ladies who live in 

 the parish. 



" The parish of Lochbroom, which lies to the 

 north of Gerloch, has no legal parochial school, but 

 the Commissioners upon the Annexed Estates 

 erected a school, in the year 1763, at Kirkton of 

 Lochbroom, and appointed twenty-five pounds a 

 year of salary for the schoolmaster. When I visited 

 this school, it contained thirty-four scholars, who 

 were making very good progress in reading, writing, 

 and arithmetic, and ten of them were pretty well 

 advanced in the Latin and Greek languages. The 

 society also has a school in this parish, in the coun- 



