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this climate the most wholesome and convenient, as it ever 

 will be the most appropriate and beautiful scene for the 

 village school^ and the sand beneath it renders stationary al- 

 together unnecessary. The little girl above alluded to spelt, 

 with her finger on the floor of the College Hall, every word 

 I mentioned ; and though there was no sand on it, she, with 

 the tenacity of habit, obliterated each word as she spelt it, as 

 if there had been sand upon the floor, to prepare it for the 

 word that was to follow — where such materials have habi- 

 tually been used by the people for ages, to supply our schools 

 with the novel luxuries of pen, ink and paper, would merely 

 be to organize a system of petty but universal pilfering upon 

 the public stores by the teachers, whose moral character it 

 should be our object to guard from, not expose to, such cor* 

 ruption. 



" The number of paid candidates for the situation of Collec- 

 torate teachers now educating in the College is 22 ; others, to 

 the number of 14, have been sent thence into the interior, to 

 form the principal Government provincial schools, intended 

 to be established in each Collectorate; making a total of 36, 

 each of whom receives rupees 15 per mensem. The aggregate 

 annual expense on this account is, therefore, rupees 6,480. 

 There is nothing which reflects such disgrace upon the insti- 

 tution, as this branch of it. 



" Of the 14 persons in this capacity deputed into the interior, 

 the only notice I can find is in our letter to Government of 

 the 15th Nov. 1832, where only 5 of them are mentioned as 

 <s qualified to act as instructors to others," but not u suffi- 

 ciently advanced to be employed as teachers in the provinces;" 

 and in the recent report from the principal Collector of Tan* 

 jore, who says, " I consider it my duty to inform you that the 

 " school master, appointed to the Collectorate school in this 

 " district, is entirely unfit for the situation, both in natural 

 e( abilities and literary acquirement, and that at least a score 

 " of persons might be found in this province, any of whom 

 u would fill it with much greater efficiency, who have never 

 " had the advantage of a College education." Under such 

 circumstances, I fear that the deputation of these 14 persons 

 into the provinces has answered no purpose, except to bring 



