I had some difficulty in finding the Povmal School, though I had seen it once before, situate as it is, in the garret of an outbuilding in a back yard, one is obliged to make the be an outside flight of steps wh building in the second story, ascending the inside stairs t seven children cowering aroun it, and quarrelling very loud at the other end of the garre "What's that?" Though the da the schoolroom was quite chil found twenty-seven pupils mar- were only eleven present- Th very low indeed..... In one s had to threaten to call in th Having found the entrance to the yard, st of his way over an ash heap towards ich leads to the entrance of the Upon gaining this entrance and o the garret aforesaid, I found .d a stove with little or no fire in ly, not seeming to heed the Master tt, who was equally loud in asking y (December ^th) was not very cold, ly. Upon inspecting the register, I ked present for the day, wheras there e attainments of the few present were chool, on two different occasions, I e Dolice on account of insubordination." However, there are a few bright spots in Mr. McPhail 's Reports, one of which is an account of the instruction given a deaf mute: "At the King Square School a deaf mute, William Cartmill , age 13 years, attends. When I saw him there twelve months ago, he was beginning to take lessons in the alphabet. How he is reading the j 5 1 r- .X. l^ w O LP J. f^ U L-LCi .1.1V4 text, and in arithmetic is able to work sums in simple addition. He learns the pronunciation of words from the Teacher's lips by sight, that is, by observing the shape of the organs of speech while in motion. He fails in pronouncing correctly the sounds produced by those organs which cannot be seen. Miss Lawson 's method of teaching this deaf mute bears a very strong resemblance to the system practiced at the Boston School for deaf mutes, if it is not indeed identical with it. It is called the German system. If Miss Lav /son were duly encouraged in her disinterested and benevolent labors, a foundation might thus be laid of a school for deaf mutes in this Island. That such a school is needed is evident from the fact that by the last Census there were seventy deaf mutes on this Island." So much, then, for conditions in the public schools of Charlottetown about ninety years ago. ..The Protestant bodies in Charlottetown at that time were: Church. of England , Kirk of Scotland , Presbyterian Church of the Lower Provinces, Bible Christian Church, Baptist Church, and Wesleyan Methodist Church.