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considerable spirit, and two breweries. Many other 

 useful establishments, are continually forming. The 

 attention given to education in this district, reflects 

 the highest credit on the inhabitants in general, and 

 may be considered a sure earnest of its ultimate pros- 

 perity. Government has done much to foster and 

 encourage the progress of education, by the appoint- 

 ment of schoolmasters at different Stations, with 

 suitable allowances, providing eligible school-rooms, 

 and furnishing them with the necessary materials. 

 These schools, although unquestionably productive 

 of much good, are not so popular, nor so well suited 

 to the circumstances of the people, as Sunday and 

 evening schools, which have been established, and 

 are supported by private individuals. The children 

 of a majority of the settlers are obliged to tend cattle, 

 or afford other assistance equally essential, at an early 

 age, and so indispensable are their services, that 

 only on Sunday, or after the close of their daily 

 labour, can they devote any time to the acquisition 

 of intellectual knowledge. 



" Limited, however, as these opportunities are, yet 

 the progress made by the children is highly en- 

 couraging ; while the attention paid by the inhabit- 

 ants at large to the subject, and the great care taken 

 to diffuse the benefits of education as extensively as 

 possible among all classes, cannot fail to raise the 

 British settlers in Albany to a high scale among 

 liberal and enlightened people. The number of chil- 



