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writing, arithmetic, grammar, and geography, and 

 in three or four geometry. The latter science was 

 introduced into many of the schools by the late 

 lamented Sir William Reid, who paid a sergeant of 

 Royal Engineers to give instruction to the teachers 

 every Saturday afternoon, at Hamilton — he paying 

 the passages per mail of those residing at a distance. 

 Some persons (perhaps without due consideration) 

 have ridiculed the idea of geometry being taught in 

 these schools, but it must be admitted that this 

 science is particularly useful to the mechanic or 

 artisan, whether he be a mason, a house or ship 

 carpenter, a wheelwright, or even a gardener; not 

 that he need dive into the abstruse problems of 

 Euclid, but merely that he should understand the 

 first principles. 



The history of our mother country, to my surprise, 

 is not taught in any of the schools. 



Psalmody is practised in every school, and taught 

 in several. This delightful recreation is much en- 

 couraged in the parochial and other charity schools 

 in England. Indeed, in the training colleges for 

 masters or mistresses, instruction is given in vocal 

 music; and in some of the colleges for masters, 

 instrumental music is taught also, to qualify the 

 pupils for organists and choir-masters for the several 



