Glencreggan Or a Highland Home in Cantire volume 1
Glencreggan Or a Highland Home in Cantire volume 1
Bede Cuthbert
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The school was tolerably well supplied with maps and books and the usual paraphernalia, and the proficiency of many of the pupils was very satisfactory. For their schooling they paid various sums, ranging from two from Scotland" {e. G. Letter II. ), and Pennant's "Scotland, " vol. I. P. 63. I was informed, on good authority, that there is almost a total absence of necessary outbuildings throughout the whole of the cottage accommodation in Cantire, and (I believe) in the islands and the other po...rtions of the Western Highlands. The Highland tourist who wishes to botanise on a dyke side, is therefore strongly recommended to choose his dyke at a considerable distance from a human habitation. Exfe- ricntia docct. 314 GLENCEEGGAN. shillings per quarter, according to the means of their parents ; and although, at the period of my visit, it was the harvest season, it did not appear to sensibly affect the school attendance, as is the case in agricul- tural parishes in England. The children were about seventy in number, from mere " infants, " up to those who had reached their fifteenth year; and boys and girls occupied the same room.
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