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MEMOIR OP DR. WAI.KER. 
try of Coygach, which is well attended ; yet these 
two schools are altogether insufficient for the in- 
struction of the inhabitants of this vast parish, 
which contains about two thousand five hundred 
people, and in its extent rather resembles a pro- 
vince, being thirty -six Highland miles in length and 
twenty in breadth. There are three catechists sup- 
ported in this parish upon the royal bounty, whose 
salaries amount to twenty-seven pounds per annum, 
and if a considerable part of this sum was rather 
employed in supporting schools, it would probably 
be productive of greater advantages. 
“ Upon the 30th of August, I visited the society’s 
school kept at Dinetil, in the parish of Slait, in the 
isle of Sky, by John MTntosh. His salary is eight 
pounds, and he has great difficulty to subsist upon 
it. All his scholars, who had been two full years 
at the school, read the Scriptures distinctly, and 
understood them better than most of those I met 
with. He is at great pains to make them translate 
the English Bible into Gaelic, and to translate the 
Irish Bible into English, which is certainly an ex- 
cellent practice, and should be more followed by the 
society's schoolmasters. For the Highland children 
frequently come to read the English currently, be- 
fore they have so much of the language as can 
make them understand it when it is read ; but this 
practice improves them in speaking as well as in 
reading English, and makes them well acquainted 
with the meaning of what they read. 
“ The society’s school kept at Bradfoord, in the 
