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application had been made for aid." In accordance 

 with the said instructions, I commenced my first 

 visit of inspection on the 2nd, and completed it on 

 the 19th November. I found the school at Tucker's 

 Town (one on the list) without a teacher, conse- 

 quently nineteen schools only were given in to the 

 Board as having been visited and inspected. A report 

 was made, separately, upon each school, which, 

 proving satisfactory to the Board, the whole were 

 admitted on the list of schools to receive " aid." 



I, found the teachers, generally speaking, possessed 

 of sufiicient knowledge of the several branches of 

 education which they professed to teach to enable 

 them , to conduct the description of schools in which 

 they were engaged. But, in many instances, they 

 were deficient in other qualifications, essential to 

 constitute them efficient teachers. 



It is admitted, that among all the great improve- 

 ments which have taken place within the last thirty 

 years in the several arts and sciences, one of the 

 most valuable (at least to the rising generation) is 

 that in the science of imparting knowledge and 

 instruction to the young— as particularly adapted 

 to those schools in Bermuda which it is my duty 

 to inspect. Some quarter of a century ago, the 

 old parish clerk and ancient dame of the village 



