MEMOIR OP DR. WALKER. 37 
examine, but was informed that it was always at- 
tended by upwards of thirty scholars, and that the 
master was diligent and successful. 
“ Upon August the 25th, I had an account of 
the society’s school, erected some months before in 
the parish of Gerlocli in Ross-shire, from Sir Alex- 
ander M‘Kenzie of Gerlocli and the minister of the 
parish. This school, of which James Herdman is 
master, was granted by the society, with ten pounds 
salary, on condition that the heritors should add a 
hundred morks to their appointment. This the 
heritors have accordingly done, and were to build, 
this last summer, a convenient school-house at their 
own expense. This new school deserves the parti- 
cular attention of the society, as it is the only 
school in that extensive parish, which contains two 
thousand eight hundred people, of whom there are 
not above twenty persons who can read English, 
exclusive of the gentlemen and ladies who live in 
the parish. 
“ The parish of Lochbroom, which lies to the 
north of Gerlocli, has no legal parochial school, but 
the Commissioners upon the Annexed Estates 
erected a school, in the year 1763, at Kirkton of 
Lochbroom, and appointed twenty-five pounds a 
year of salary for the schoolmaster. When I visited 
this school, it contained thirty-four scholars, who 
were making very good progress in reading, writing, 
and arithmetic, and ten of them were pretty well 
advanced in the Latin and Greek languages. The 
society also has a school in this parish, in the coun- 
