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MEMOIR OF DR. WALKER. 
with Charles Tawse, the schoolmaster. The minis- 
ter; however, and the gentlemen of the country 
gave him an ample character, and a very good ac- 
count of the state of the school, at which there 
were thirty-five scholars attending upon the 1st of 
August. 
“ Upon the 16th of August, I visited the society’s 
school kept at Stornoway in the Lewes. In No- 
vember 1763, Neil M‘Leod was appointed master 
of this school by the society; bnt giving up his 
charge on the 19th of June 1764, the Rev. Mr. 
Clark, minister of the parish, and Mr. M‘Gillander, 
Mr. M‘Kenzie of Seaforth’s factor, with the appro- 
bation of the presbytery, appointed, in his place, 
Alexander Anderson, who now officiates, and gives 
general satisfaction in the place, and this appoint- 
ment they hope will be confirmed by the society. 
On the day I examined this school, it contained 
fifty-two scholars, from five to fifteen years of age, 
which was the most numerous of any I saw in the 
Highlands or Islands, and it had been still more 
numerous in winter. The progress they were then 
making in reading, writing, arithmetic, and in the 
principles of religion, was truly surprising, consider- 
ing their great number and the small appointment 
of the master, which is only eight pounds ; and I 
doubt if there be so much service performed, for so 
little money, by any of the society’s servants. 
“ The other school kept by the society at Knock, 
in the parish of Stornoway, of which Murdoch 
M‘Aulay is master, I had not the opportunity to 
