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the scholars elected from year to year, was assigned a free 

 board, and the sum of 10/. a year, or in all about 30/. per 

 annum. Of these so elected, some have done well else- 

 where, and reflected credit on their early training. I 

 would only specify among these Mr. Colin C. McKenzie, 

 B.A., of St. Peter's College, Cambridge ; Mr. Jas. Eoss, 

 B.A., who has distinguished himself very highly at the 

 University of Toronto ; the Eev. Peter Jacobs, ordained 

 by the Bishop of Toronto to labour among the Indians on 

 Lake Huron ; and the Eev. Eobert McDonald, ordained by 

 myself to the missionary station of Islington, on the 

 Winnipeg Eiver. With more advanced pupils the higher 

 classics have been read, such as iEschylus, Herodotus, and 

 Thucydides. The turn of the native mind is, however, 

 more towards mathematics. All attain to excellence in 

 algebra, and acquire it with great ease. All, too, have 

 naturally imitative power, and write and draw well. 

 While I have had great pleasure in carrying on these 

 branches of education, my one feeling of disappointment 

 has been, that there is comparatively little opening for 

 those who distinguish themselves in this country in after 

 life. Yet I have felt that the duty is ours ; the event was 

 with God. In the young ladies' school the want of ade- 

 quate motive to excite to study is felt more than in the 

 collegiate school. They have the opportunity of learning 

 every branch usually taught in such establishments else- 

 where, such as French and music, and there is a very 

 great change perceptible in the seven years. Their edu- 

 cation is all-important with a view to the training of the 

 next generation ; and although the progress may not be 

 visible in their case, the effects will, I trust, be fully 

 acknowledged when they are settled in life. 



" In the thirteen schools there may be about six hun- 

 dred, from that to seven hundred children. In one or 



