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EED RIVER EXPLORING EXPEDITION. 



CHAP. X. 



EDUCATION, IN THE SETTLEMENT. AGRICULTURAL 



INDUSTRY. 



Schools.— Protestant Schools in the Settlement. — Subjects taught. — Col- 

 legiate School. — Distinguished Scholars. — School Attendance. — Sources 

 of Income. — School Wants. — The Presbyterian School. — The Roman Ca- 

 tholic Schools. — Agricultural Industry. — The Farms. — Want of Improve- 

 ment manifest. — Cause of the Absence of Progress. — Cultivated Crops. 

 — Indian Corn. — Wheat. — Hay. — Barley and Oats.— Root Crops. — Sugar. 

 — Hemp and Flax. — Live Stock. —Agricultural Implements. — Facilities 

 for raising Stock. — Timber. — Country west of Red River. 



THE CONDITION OF EDUCATION AT RED RIVER. 



Education is in a far more advanced state in the colony 

 than its isolation and brief career might claim for it under 

 the peculiar circumstances in which the country has been 

 so long placed. 



There are seventeen schools in the settlements, generally 

 under the supervision of the ministers of the denomina- 

 tion to which they belong. The following enumeration is 

 nearly accurate : — 



statistics and enumeration of schools. 



1. St. John's College, including a boarding school for 

 boys and girls, under the immediate supervision of the 

 Bishop of Eupert's Land. 



2. Archdeacon Hunter's School, " Model Training 

 School," conducted by Mr. Mayhew, recently from the 

 Normal School, Dublin. 



3. Mr. Gunn's Commercial Boarding School, more par- 

 ticularly in connection with the Presbyterians. 



