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 TO 
 
 REV. DR. RYERSON'S REPORT 
 
 ON INSTITUTIONS FOR THE 
 
 DEAF AND DUMB, 
 
 IN 
 
 EUROPE AND IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, 
 
 WITH AN APPENDIX, CONTAINING 
 
 THE ACCOUNTS OF THE TREASURER 
 
 OP THi; 
 
 HAMILTON DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTION. 
 
 FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31st DECEMBER, 1868. 
 
 By J. B. McG-ANN, Superintendent. 
 
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 PRINTED AT THE SPECTATOR STEAM PRESH, PRINCE'S SQUARE. 
 
 1869. 
 
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 TENTH A.lSr]SrUAL REPORT 
 
 OP 
 
 TlIE HAnilliTON IIVMTITIJTTOIV 
 
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 Fob the Year endinh 31pt Dec, 1868. 
 
 To the Honourable M. C. Cameron, M. F. P., 
 
 I'iecrelary of the Piovince of Ontario. 
 SiK,— 
 
 The subjects to be discussed in this lieport are of such an 
 important character — involving, as they do, the future well-being 
 of the Deaf and Dumb, not only of the present generation, but of 
 succeeding ones — that 1 deem it advisable to address you instead 
 of the Wardens of Co. Councils, as heretofore. 
 
 Having, for a series of years, had practical know ledge in the 
 mental, moral, and religious training of the above-named class 
 of our fellow-creatures, I presume to submit for tlie consideration 
 of the Government, some remarks on the method, and process of 
 instruction recommended by Dr. Ryerson to be adopted in the 
 Institution about to be established for the instruction of the Deaf 
 and Dumb of this Province, with some useful suggestions bearing 
 upon the supervision, and management of the same, so as to place 
 it on a basis that shall keep pace with oiir other educational 
 establishments of Ontario, 
 
 That the Institution which I had the honor and happiness to 
 found and conduct has had defects, arising from causes beyond 
 my control, I freely admit ; yet, notwithstanding the serious 
 drawbacks presented in the want of proper school appliances 
 and funds for its support, I can say, without fear of contradiction, 
 that we compare favorably with the Schools of Europe and the 
 United States, long in operation. In my feeble efforts " to get 
 along," I have had mountains of a craggy nature to climb : often 
 on my hands and feet : sometimes in an erect yet unbalanced 
 posture, resulting in a tumble down head foremost into some 
 steep and yawning precipice, in which I was completely hidden 
 from view by intervening masses of stupendous rocks: up again, 
 putting my feet, one l)y one, into a position of safety, every false 
 step seeming to threaten me with instantaneoU!L< destruction ; 
 
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 but by patient perseverance, and cautious care in my self-reliant 
 movements, I have, tliank God, readied the summit of my fondest 
 hopes in the pleaainoj facit, that the requisite funds for the erection 
 of suitable and commodious buildings, worthy the Province, have 
 been granted by tJio Legislature, to give our deaf-mutes the 
 same educational advantages as are accorded to those blessed 
 with tlie I'acultics of hearing and of speech. 
 
 These mountains, and hoio to climh them, have taxed my 
 energies to the utmost, and occujued my whole thoughts by 
 ni»ht and by duv, fur the best years of my life. But sir, just as 
 I flattered myself that 1 might in the future be freed from em- 
 barassments, I iind that in the Report of the Chief Superintendent 
 of Education on Institutions in the United States and Europe, as 
 
 f resented to the Legislative Assembly through you last session, 
 have to chisel my path in a zig-zag direction through the face 
 of a perpendicular rock, through which all literary celebrities of 
 Ontario have failed to make a ])assage. Believe me, then, sir, that 
 in discussing the suggestions of Dr. Tlyert^onin his able Report, I 
 feel T have a difficnilt task to perform, — one which peremptorily 
 demands the full exercise of a higher order of tact and talent 
 than that whic'a 1 possess. But 
 
 '* Thrice is he armed who hath his quarrel just." 
 
 While I heartily concur in the views of Dr. Ryerson, on the 
 nature and ditHculties of the education of those born deaf, the 
 main avenues to whose minds are hermetically closed up against 
 instruction, 1 take exception in the iirst place, to his opinions 
 relative to the system employed by Pereire who, writes he : 
 "established himself at Bourdeaux as teacher of the deaf and 
 dumb, combining the eiTiployment of mimic slgnH, manual 
 aVphahet, and speech, in his instructions."" 
 
 Eminent writers on the education of de:if mul-is, assert that 
 the system ]tursued dy Pereire was never communicated to any 
 one — "no, not even to his own family," and. Dr. Seguin his 
 Biographer writes with emphasis, that " the deaf and dunib did 
 not gain hy this discovery, because their succeeding teachers could 
 not even understand what it meant.''^ 
 
 Pereire taught articulation "by tact, instead of the common 
 method of acquiring it by audition," on the principle, that all 
 the senses are a modification of the tact or touch. He treated, 
 educated, and perfected the tact itself, to the point that his 
 pupils could hear the speech vibrate through their own muscles 
 up to the brain as distinctly as others through the tympanum of 
 the ear!!!" 
 
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 fielf-reliant 
 my fondest 
 he erection 
 ^inco, have 
 -mutes the 
 )se blessed 
 
 taxed my 
 loughts by 
 
 sir, just as 
 I from em- 
 jrintendent 
 
 Europe, as 
 ast session, 
 li tlie face 
 lebrities of 
 en, sir, that 
 3 Report, I 
 remptorily 
 and talent 
 
 ■son, on the 
 1 deaf, the 
 up against 
 is opinions 
 writes he : 
 e deaf and 
 .s', manual 
 
 assert that 
 ted to any 
 Seguin his 
 dumb did 
 chers could 
 
 le common 
 le, that all 
 [e treated, 
 at that his 
 mi muscles 
 npanum of 
 
 Pereire's secrecy in keeping the art of manipulating the 
 muscular organs, from the world, may bo accounted for in the 
 plain fact, that his pupils were Semi-Mdtes — those who had 
 learned lauyuage hefore they lost hearinj. This will appear 
 in the conflicting testimony of Buffon the celebrated Naturalist, 
 and Biornstahl the eminent Swedish Linguist. The former 
 testifies, that Fontenui * " s[)oke like other men," while the 
 
 latter states, that although u master of several 
 never spoke a M'ord." 
 
 mguages "he 
 
 laving witnessed the 
 
 Dr. Johnston, of wide-world fame, 
 articulative powers of Braidwood's pu])ils, testifies that " they 
 not only speak, write, -and understand wliat is written; but if 
 he that speaks looks towards them, and modifies his organs by 
 distinct and full utterance, they know so Avell what is spoken 
 that it is an expression scarcely figurative to say they hear with 
 their eyes." Dugald Stewart, the " Scottish Philosopher^' 
 writes : — that the results of Braid wood's efl^brts to ^jve 
 his deaf mutes the power of speech, '''■ranks a little aoove 
 parrots and starlings^ The remarks of both are correct, as 
 those whom Dr. Johnston heard were semi-mutes : while 
 Dugald Stewart saw, and heard deaf mutes from birth. 
 
 When men of such distinguished literary ability ; of such 
 intense reflection, and laborious research in physical science, tfec., 
 as Buffon, Mayrau, Biornstahl, Johnston, Dugald Stewart, and 
 a host of others — among whom I may may mention Dr. Ivitto, 
 the learned semi-mute, were imi)08ed upon by some vain 
 teachers of the Deaf and Dumb, I cannot be surprised that our 
 justly celebrated educationist of Ontario was led captive by the 
 flashy curriculum of studies presented in the Keport of the 
 N. y. Institution, to which ] shall refer in its proper place. 
 Should I succeed in showing to the satisfaction of the Govern- 
 ment that Dr. Ryerson's views of the great mental ability of 
 those T)07'7i deaf^ and who have been educated in the States, are 
 founded on false premise,^, I may apply the words of the 
 prophet in reference to the literary celebrities above mc.itioneJ : 
 " Howl lir trees, for the cedar (Dr. R.) is fallen." 
 
 The Chief Superintendent regards Mr. Braidwood as the 
 father of deaf-mute education in Britain. He writes : — " that a 
 nephew of Braidwood, Dr. Joseph Watson, was tlie first, and 
 for thirty-seven years, the master of the London Institution, 
 
 * Fontenai was one of the pupils of Pereire, whose proficiency in articulate 
 language was ||tested before the Academy of Science, Paris, in 1749, of which 
 Buflon, Mayra, &c., &c., were members. 
 
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 estublisliod in 179ii. One grandeuii, John Bniidwood, iiud the 
 care of another sdiool for tlio Deaf and Duinb, ()pcned in 
 
 Edinbur^li ; and unotlior t!;randBon took charge; of a Bchool 
 opened at l>irininij;hani in 1814." 1 would iicrc; ask Dr. 
 liyeraon the motive by which he was inlhienced to overlook 
 the services rendered the canse of deaf-mute education in New 
 York, and in Virginia by the latter grandson in ISll ? Dr. Feet 
 says that Braidwood's school in N. Y. attracted the attention of 
 Dr. Ackcrly, and led to the establishment of the N. Y. school. 
 
 Here we ])lainly sec tliat an Englishman, was tlie first to open 
 a Scliool in the [Inited States for the Deaf and Dumb, in 1811. 
 Is it not ])robable that the " usual terms" demanded by Dr. 
 Watson for imparting his system to Dr. Gallaudet, in 1815, 
 resulted from the feeling tliat his cousin, Braidwood, was 
 harshly treated in New York City ? Dr. Peet represents him as 
 having " led a wandering and dissipated life." It is a ])romi- 
 nent characteristic in the American mind that only those 
 born on that highly favored soil possess ability of a high order. 
 
 Dr. Ryerson tells us that Dr. Gallaudet went to Europe in 
 1815, applied to Dr. Watson to quality him in the art of teaching 
 mechanical articulation, and was refused unless he complied 
 with the " usual terms,^ meaning a douceur of j£3i)0. Dr. 
 Gallaudet declined to agree to these terms, and left for Edin- 
 burgh, where he met with a denial at the hands of Mr. Kinni- 
 . burgh. lie then applied to Sicard, rrincipal of the Royal 
 Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, Paris, and succeeded in 
 obtaining instruction there, and having returned home, accom- 
 panied by Monsieur ^Clerc, a teacher in the Institution, he 
 opened a School at Hartford in 1815. 
 
 The "selfish policy" of Dr. Watson, in the refusal to com- 
 municate the secrets of his art to Dr. Gallaudet, having excited 
 in the mind of the educated Deaf and Dumb in the States, a 
 deep and bitter hatred of everything British, I feel called npon 
 to state that the Principal of the Hartford School, did, in 1854, 
 demand from a Canadian, who applied for instruction to enable 
 him to open a School in this Province, " such terms as should 
 be mutually satisfactory." Hence we sec that both Principal^ 
 of the London and of the Hartford Schools crred^if the side of 
 philanthropy. Would, that this anglo-pliobia spirit were 
 dethroned from its chair of state in the hearts of our deaf mute 
 brethren in the States. 
 
 Dr. Ryerson refers in glowing terms, to the reception given to 
 the Prince of Wales when he ^•isited the New York Institution, 
 
 
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 , opened in 
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 pr(! ask Dr. 
 to overlook 
 ion in New 
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 attention of 
 I. V. school. 
 
 first to open 
 lb, in 1811. 
 dccl by Dr. 
 ct, in 1815, 
 Iwood, was 
 scnts him as 
 is a ])romi- 
 only those 
 high order. 
 
 Europe in 
 . of teaching 
 e complied 
 £300. Dr. 
 Dft for Edin- 
 Mr. Kiimi- 
 the Royal 
 iiccceded in 
 me, accom- 
 ititution, he 
 
 sal to com- 
 ing excited 
 e States, a 
 called upon 
 id, in 1854, 
 m to enable 
 I as should 
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 the side of 
 |)irit were 
 
 deaf mute 
 
 on given to 
 Institution, 
 
 in l8(!o. lit! (lid s(> with the view of strengthening Ihk proposal 
 to import a l*rinci]>al from that, or any other simihir institution 
 in the States. lie gives, in full, the address of the Ih'itish 
 Teachers, ])resented to Dr. l*eet on his retirement trom the 
 active duties of his profession, then at the ndvan(red agt5 of 72. 
 The venerable, and Icind l*rincii)al was well worthy this honor. 
 I was greatly ]>lea8cd to have been present at the reading of that 
 address, and to have witnessed the cordial numner in which it 
 was received. 1 was also gratliied to have read of the visit of 
 the Trince, and the s[)irit whicii it evoked among the pupils, 
 well knowing their feelings during the Crimean War. The 
 following extract from an oration delivered at the celebration of 
 the (lallaudet monument by a deaf mute, exhibits iu .i striking 
 nuumer the anglo-phobia which then existed among the Deaf 
 and Dundj : " The gigantic e(|ue8trian statue of the Duke of 
 Wellington, over the Western Gate of St. James' Park, London, 
 though inajfpropriately, in my opinion, cast in bronze, and 
 elevated thereupon during his lifetime, is a ono7iicinc7it, perpetu- 
 ating the great victory of Waterloo, which History, with stern 
 impartiality attrilmtes to the opportune reinforcement of the 
 Prussians, and not to the )/iUitari/ skill of the nigh vanquished 
 Iron DukeP To do justice to the Teachers, I must say that 
 they have not, as I think, inculcated this hatred in the minds of 
 their pupils. 
 
 I heartily eoncur in the Doctor's opinion that '' the successfid 
 instruction of the Deaf and Dumb takes rank, as an intellectual 
 achievement, with the highest cftbrts of the human mind, and 
 that American teachers possess these great mental qualities." 
 The very highest qualification of one engaged in the ])rofession, 
 lies in the power to bring down the caj^iicity of the mind to the 
 level of prattling children — to be, as Valade Gabel says, " an 
 older child among infants." This peculiar mental quality is 
 found among those who arc self-taught. It is happily illustrated 
 in the wonderful success of Mr. Duncan Anderson, Principal of 
 the Glasgow School, who, in his lifetime, worked as a carpenter. 
 Hear what Dr. Pect, who visited his school and examined his 
 , pupils, says of his great success : " We saw a few pupils who, 
 though their c(AU'se of instruction was com])leted, had not yet 
 left the Institution. They had been under instruction from 
 seven to eight years. We proposed to them several abstract 
 names to incorporate into oriijinal sentences of their own com- 
 position, which they did in language, which Tjoth in thought 
 and expression would have been creditable to young persons in 
 the possession of all their senses. With Geography they evinced 
 
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 II tlioroiij^li iic<|iiiiintiinct', and IVom uU wo wiw, jiMiicd to tlio 
 compoBitioriB in liis Annual Koportu, wo regard Mr. Anderson as 
 ono ot'tlic hcBt ]iraotical instructors of Deal' Mutes wo liad the 
 good tbrtuno to meet with abroad." llo might liavo truly 
 added, or in tlio United States. 
 
 Previous to the do])arturo of Dr. Kycrson for Europe, I 
 earnestly urged liini to visit thojiistly-famcdGlsiB^ow Institution, 
 which had turned out c(hicated deaf-mutes, hetbro whom the 
 brilliant stars of the Schools in America would pale, and twinkle 
 in the far distance. J hit on what grounds lie declined, T am 
 utterly at a loss to know.* The deaf-mute barrister practising 
 his i>rofession at Belleville testified in (tlasgow two years ago 
 that "ho had visited several Schools in the States, and ho met none 
 to bear any com])aiison with the Glasgow School." Mr. Anderson 
 crossed the Atlantic to sec with his eyes the results of the Amcr 
 ican system, and returned back saying " he had nothing to learn 
 thero.^' 
 
 The Euro})can teachers were astonished at the wonderful pro- 
 ficiency displayed by two of Dr. Feet's pupils, Messrs. llowel 
 and Gamage, the former a skmi-muie, the latter the most accom- 
 jilishcd pantomimic of the age. Mr. llowel could express himself 
 to me in articulate language with a facility e<|ual to any J*rofesBor 
 in the N. Y. [nstitution ; and in this connection, I would specially 
 draw the attention of Dr. llyerson to the fact that " of the 
 thirteen pupils in the High Class of the N. Y. Institution, 7io 
 less tfian ten arc scini-mutes of S, 9, and 10 years' standing, and 
 three only born deaf."t The curriculum of studies of this Class 
 consisted of the following branches, viz : 1, Algebra ; 2, Natural 
 Philosophy, under which head have hccn taught the essential 
 and incidental properties of matter, the science of mechanics, 
 the laws of motion, centrifugal force and comj)ound motion ; 
 3, Hydrostatics ; 4, Pneunuitics ; 5, Meteorology ; 6, Acoustics ; 
 7, Electricity ; 8, Ilhetoric ; 9, Grammatical Analysis ; 10, Moral 
 Science, and Lectures on Chemistry. Mark well, P^uclid is 
 not, nor has ever been, nor ever will be, found in the studies 
 of either the New York School or the College for deaf-mutes at 
 Washington. 
 
 Why? The fact is plain to every intelligent mind, that c\Q,\.ii- 
 mutes are incapable ot tracing the relation between cause and 
 effect, simply because they cannot read intclli(/e7itly the propo- 
 
 • Dr. RyeiBou did not leccive iuBtructious from the Government to prosecute 
 enquiries in the Schools of the States. 
 
 f Mr. Sanborn, Secretary of the Board of State ChariticK, Boston, Mass., who had 
 examined several Schools in the States, is my authority. He certified in writing 
 that my School was as good as any School in the United States. 
 
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 oiiiud to tlio 
 AndorBon as 
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 lit liavo truly 
 
 )r Europe, I 
 w Institution, 
 ro whom the 
 , and twinkle 
 K'linod, I am 
 or practising 
 vo yoarrt n<jjo 
 1 hu mot none 
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 of the Amcr 
 lung to learn 
 
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 ^cssrs. llowel 
 most accom- 
 prci^s hiniBelf 
 my Prol't'SBor 
 )nld specially 
 that " of the 
 istitntion, no 
 standing, and 
 of this Class 
 I ; 2, Katnral 
 the essential 
 »f mechanics, 
 iind motion ; 
 3, Acoustics ; 
 is ; 10, Moral 
 3ll, P^uclid is 
 n the studies 
 leaf-mutes at 
 
 id, that deaf- 
 sn cause and 
 y the propo- 
 
 ent to prosecute 
 
 , Mass., who had 
 tilled in writing 
 
 sitions or pro1)len\s of Euclid. The examiner of this class, 
 Mr. Stcuhen of N(!W York, writes thus on Honujof thoKo t^cicntific 
 Buhjiicts : "The actictn of the connno?i pump was explained in 
 sueli a manner an to slntw that the mind saw the conditions, and 
 worked the pump in imagination. The steam-engine was illus- 
 trated and defined ; and it was nninifeHt that the pujiil worked 
 the pit^ton, and condensed the steam in his own thought and 
 feeling." 
 
 Ana yet in the face of this testimony, that on some 
 subjects the ]nipils exhibited their knowledge by signs, and not 
 in written language, and committed to memory and r(;produced 
 answers on others, the Chief Superintendent is sure the 
 system of Sicard, imported from France by Dr. Gallaudet, 
 " laid the foundation of the viosi practical^ comjn'ehcnsivc, and 
 complete sifstcrth of deaf-mute education n^hich the vjorUl hod 
 ever witnessed^ Compare this character of the system pursued 
 in the United States, with that of the Principal to be imported, 
 and we have i^erfection on the one hand, and angelic purity on 
 the other. 
 
 The character of the Principal runs thus : — " The strong 
 common sense, and sound judgment; the truly christian heart 
 and highly (;ultivated intellect ; the good address and ready 
 tact ; the unwearied industry and patient kindness ; the sincere 
 piety and perennial love of the young and helpless; the physical 
 strength and niental vigour required in a Principal of such an 
 Institution, renders the selection as really di&cult as it is 
 supremely important!!" If departed spirits were permitted to 
 re-visit this wcrld : nay, more, if the Angel Gabriel assumed 
 human nature — with reverential awe be it said — put off his 
 robes of glory, ciame down upon earth, and took up his abode 
 in the States for the short space of a month, he only could fulfil 
 the required conditions above recited. 
 
 To return to the " most practical^ comprehensive^ and complete 
 system of deaf-mute education which the world had ever wit- 
 nessed,^'' as founded upon Sicard's system, and introduced by 
 Laurent Clerc, his celebrated pupil, into the United States. 
 Dr. Peet compares the a])plication of Sicard's signs to " the 
 I'chuses formed of fantastic hieroghyphical figures," and that the 
 greatest defect of these methodical signs, as used in the School 
 of Sicard was the tendency to use the same sign for all the 
 different mea *5 of a word. Hence the more significant, and 
 appropriate the sign for one meaning, the greater the confusion 
 01 ideas when applied to a different meaning. Bebian (Sicard's 
 successor) whose system is now pursued in the New York 
 Institution, relates that "one day, seeing one of Sicard's assistant 
 
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 dictate to his class the phrase roasted chcsnuts, (forming part of 
 a vocabulary) he caused roasted chesnuts to be brought into the 
 class, and demanded their name. All the pupils replied Hiat 
 they did not know ; and were much surprised when told 
 that they had just written the name. Tlie d'fHculty was, that 
 the teacher had signed for thcAvord roivstcd, as he would express 
 roasted veal. lie puc the chcsnuts on the spit.''' 
 
 " Sicard," writes Dr. Pect, " was not the sun that dissipates 
 the morning clouds ; but the lightning that breaks through 
 them to dazzle and lead astray." 
 
 This system of methodical signs was thirty years ago 
 thrown overboard, and the colloquial sign dialect of the Deaf 
 and Dumb, designed l)y Bebian, substituted. 
 
 The following extracts from my work on tlie Education of 
 the Deaf and Dumb, will bliow the defects of the colloquial sign 
 dialect n w practiced : 
 
 A Special Committee of tlio Legislature of MaBsachusetts feeling desirous to 
 know the value attached .0 signs, requested Mr. Amos Smith, a learned graduate 
 of the Hartford School, to ^\vg a literal translation of those used in the Lord's 
 Prayer. The translation is as follows : " Our father, Pleaveu, God, name thy 
 hallowed king' lorn tome, angels obey, law lilce, done now, day, bread, clothes, 
 food, continuaDy forgive, lead uk temptation not, but deliver devil, for thy king- 
 dom, thy I ower, thy glory, forever. Amen." 
 
 Professor Bartlett, a teacher of thirty years' standing, in both the New York 
 and Hartford Schools, translates the same as follows : " God, Father, our Heaven, 
 name thine hallowed, kingdom thine come, will thine obeyed, people earth aB 
 angels hea .-en, day this food and things needful thou, we command thy transgress, 
 forgive thou others us offending, we forgive like manner, us temptation permit' 
 thou not, but boacJagc Satan, deliver thou : for kingdom tl ine, power thine, glory 
 thine, now and evermore. Amen." 
 
 The Committee proceeded to tl e Hartford School with the view of further test- 
 ing the value of sign-language, and ^acquiring a knowledge of the idioms con- 
 nected with it. They examined the head class of the school, consisting of nine 
 pupils, varying from five to six years under instruction, when a test exercise was 
 given out, viva voce, by the chairman (Hon. I\Ir. Fay,) and interpreted to the 
 pupils by their teacher in the sign language, which they (the pupils) translated 
 into English on the blackboard. 
 
 The following is the exercise. It contains 51 words: 
 
 " Mr. Day said a few days ap;o in Boston : L noticed lately that the Kentucky 
 Legislature voted to remove their capital (from Frankfort) to some t^her place, 
 hereafter to be designated ; in other words, that it shall be put on wheels until, 
 in their mode of doing things, the location shall be raffled for." 
 
 The following translation by each of the pupils was copied from the black- 
 board by Mr. Redpath : — 
 
 No. 1. — Wriltenhtj John O^Hara,in W minutes andAb seconds, 6J years at school ; 
 
 lost heari7i{; at owe year old. 
 
 " A lew days ago, Mr Day told some gentleman in Boston that he read in the 
 
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 newspap 
 So they 
 establish 
 victory, 
 (72 word 
 
 No. 2.. 
 
 No. 4.- 
 
 ir 
 
(forming part of 
 ) brought into the 
 ipils replied fhat 
 'rised when told 
 fficultj was, that, 
 he would express 
 
 m that dissipates 
 breaks through 
 
 liii'ty years ago 
 ilect of the Deaf 
 
 he Education of 
 ic eolloqnial sign 
 
 ts feeling desirous to 
 h, a learned graduate 
 •ye used in the Lord's 
 i.veu, God, name thy 
 ', day, bread, clothes, 
 r devil, for thy king- 
 
 1 both the New York 
 Father, our Heaven, 
 eyed, people earth aB 
 maud thy transgress, 
 in temptation permit 
 e, power thine, glory 
 
 view of further test- 
 ae of the idioms con- 
 3l, consisting of nine 
 n a test exercise was 
 Qd interpreted to the 
 lie pupils) translated 
 
 7 that the Kentucky 
 to some t 'her place, 
 put on wheels until, 
 
 r." ' 
 
 it'd from the black- 
 er years at school ; 
 : that he read in the 
 
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 newspapers that the Legislature of Kentucky agreed to remove their State House. 
 So they put it on a cart, and went carrying it to some place where they would 
 establish it. But they changed on playing dice. Finally, the other gained the 
 victory, so thev might establish the State Hou.«u in the place w h they found." 
 (72 words.) 
 
 No. 2. — Written by Daniel W. Carey, in 11 minutes and lH seconds. G{ years at 
 
 school; born dcaj\ 
 " A few days ago, Mr. Day told some of his friends that he had read in a news- 
 paper that the Legislature of Kentucky moved their State House on the place 
 where they wanted to place it. They raffled with the dice that they might estab- 
 lish it as they decided." (48 words.) 
 
 No. 3. — Written by Ira H, Derby, in lOminuts and 45 seconds. 5| years at school. 
 
 " A gentleman by the name of Day lived in Boston. He read a newspaper 
 about the Governor of Kentucky, and Mr. Day talked to some gentleman of the 
 Governor of Kentucky. Some gentleman of Kentucky were talking about the 
 State House, and their State House was carried to some other place by a wagon.'' 
 (54 words.) 
 
 No. 4. — Written by Patrick Sullivan, in 10 minutes and 15 seconds. GJ years at 
 school; lost hearing at 4 years of age. 
 
 " Some weeks ago, in Boston, Mr. Day told the Legislature about the new 
 Governor of Kentucky. The Governor had been selected for a State House of 
 the State of Kentucky. The State House was put in a wagon and was removed 
 to that place. The man rafHea something, and the State House was established 
 in that place." (57 words.) 
 
 No. 5. — Written by Eugene W. Wood, in about 10 minutes. Lost hearing at the 
 age 0/9 ; 6 years at school ; 19 years of age. 
 " A few days ago, while Mr. Day was in Boston, he read a newspaper and told 
 gentlemen that the Legislature of Kentucky voted to remove the State House to 
 another place. They could not tell where it was better to remove it. So they 
 raffled and then placed it where they were informed." (54 words.) 
 
 No. 0. — Written by W. L. Hill, in 9 minutes, 45 seconds. Entered school at l-i years 
 andahiilf; lost hearing at VI years ; (articulates perfectly); \l years at school. 
 
 "Some days ago a gentleman by the name af Day told .'3ome of his friends that 
 he bad read iu a paper that the State House of Kentucky was to be removed from 
 ity present site. But not agreeing with each other where it should be transferred, 
 it was decided to shake for the situation." (55 words.) 
 
 The indistinct perception, sliown by tlie pupils in trans- 
 lating the siga language into ours, as above illustrated, is a 
 convincing proof, that the American system is nut as the learned 
 Dr. thinks, the " most perfect that the world ever witnessed," but 
 is on the contrary imperfect, incomplete, and incomprehensible, 
 relleciing no credit on the " highest achievement of the human 
 mind," nor on his judgment who lauds the system up to the 
 very sky. 
 
 Mr. Keep, one of the Professors of the Hartford School, has 
 written and published a text book for the deaf and dumb, which 
 in every particnlar, \)y the very counterpart of the fiystem pursued 
 in my school. 
 
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 Dr Ryerson quotes the opinion dfthe Fresident ofthe National 
 Deaf-mute College Washington, that "success can only be 
 obtained by instructors who have secured the acquisition aud 
 mental discipline afforded in a coFegiate course of training/' 
 Well, well, that casts into the shade the opinions of the Master 
 minds of ages past and present. Mr. Morris, teacher of the 
 highest class in the New York School, has been the most 
 efficient teacher in that Institution ; is a Mayisterium Artutn. 
 (A. M.) by virtue of his knowledge.of Ancient History, and like 
 myself, and other teachers of Deaf-mutes in England, Ireland, 
 and Scotland, was a self-taught man, and a common School- 
 master. Heinicke the founder of the German system was also a 
 self-made Schoolmaster. 
 
 If this collegiate training were required in the Institutions in 
 the States, why is it that the Principal of the New York 
 Institution, follows the plan long since adopted in Britain, that 
 of training young boys for the office of teachers 'i Any man of 
 moderate literary attainments can easily obtain degrees in the 
 Colleges of the States, from which a large crop of these black- 
 berries have, from time to time, been imported into Canada, and 
 of which Dr. Ryerson is the recipient of a D. D. 
 
 The sign language of Bebian, "who rose like the sun, partially 
 dispelling the murky clouds which lowered on the imposing 
 metaphysical processes, circuitous and cumbrous artificial instru- 
 ments of Sicard, proved to have been natural, simple and effica- 
 cious."(?) His signs are developed in equal range and perspicuity 
 with the deaf-mutes' progress in English. From this it is q uite 
 plain that the unfortunate pupil must study two languages at the 
 same time ; the sign language under that form in which ideas 
 are conceived in the mind, and the English language after 
 the form in which we express our thoughts and feelings. In 
 the former the subject is placed before its qualifying word, 
 the object before the action, and more frequently both subject 
 and object, object and subject, before the verb, while the want 
 of inflectictn in our mother tongue leads the pupil into confusion. 
 Apart from this, the sign language of Bebian, the same as that 
 pursued in the American Schools, is completely destitute of 
 pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions, anu the moods, and tenses 
 of verbs. Its idiom differs from any known language, that of 
 the barbarous jargon of the uncivilized savages of New 
 Zealand excepted. Now I would ask Dr. Ryerson a simple 
 question : Has this language a definite syntax, or has it a 
 syntax at all? If it has a definite syntax, it is " comprehensive 
 and complete," though not " perfect ;" if it has no syntax, then 
 it IB inco)/)^rehensiMe, ino M2)lete and imperfect I would ask 
 
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ftlie National 
 can only be 
 cquisition aud 
 i of training/' 
 of the Master 
 teacher of the 
 een the most 
 Hum Artum. 
 tory, and like 
 and, Ireland, 
 imon School- 
 em was also a 
 
 nstitutions in 
 
 lie New York 
 
 Britain, that 
 
 Any man of 
 
 egrees in the 
 
 f these black- 
 
 ' Canada, and 
 
 snn, partially 
 the imposing 
 ■tificial instru- 
 ale and effica- 
 id perspicuity 
 lis it is q nite 
 guagesatthe 
 1 which ideas 
 nguage after 
 feelings. In 
 lifying word, 
 both subject 
 liile the want 
 ito confusion, 
 same as that 
 destitute of 
 
 s, and tenses 
 age, 
 
 that of 
 es of New 
 on a simple 
 
 or lias it a 
 ni})rehensive 
 syntax, then 
 
 would ask 
 
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 you Mr. Cameron, as an astute lawyer, who skilfully finds 
 out loop-holes in the wording of indictments, to testify to the 
 soundness of my views in opposition to those of Dr. Kyerson, 
 when I say that a language without a syntax is like a barrister's 
 brief without plaintiff or defendant being named, — it is in- 
 comprehensible, incomplete and imperfect in every particular. 
 In short, it is like a Mexican dollar — it has neither head nor tail. 
 
 Degerando, the celebrated French Philosopher, knowing by 
 experimental knowledge that the use of sign language, under 
 any system, leads to a confusion of ideas, brought out a system of 
 attaching the ideas of the deaf and dumb to the formation of 
 words, just as we would know a tree, a house, or a church, by 
 its outlines. His system proved a failure. 
 
 Dr. Itard, who spent forty years of his life in the Royal Insti- 
 tution of Paris for the Deaf and Dumb, to which he left at his 
 death, in 1838, a perpetual income of 8,000 francs, to institute a 
 class of deaf-mutes, in whose instruction the sign language was 
 prohibited, thus expresses himself on this subject : 
 
 " This remarkable fact has for me all the chai-acter of a demonstrated truth, that 
 nearly all our deaf mutes, at the end of the six years allowed for their instruction 
 find it beyond their ability to read with a perfect understanding the greater part of 
 the works of our language. It results from this, that wanting the ability to draw 
 at pleasure on this great store-house of the productions of the intellect and heart, 
 the deaf mute, dismissed from the Institution, must remain all his life at the same 
 degree of instruction at which his teachers have left him ; and, in consequence, 
 that the most useful study for him will be that which shall lead him to read un- 
 derstandingly, and without fatigue, all the most impoi-tant works of our language. 
 Such should be tho result of the class of complemental instri tion. But that 
 this end may be attained a rigorous condition of its orgrnizatiou ought to be the 
 exclusion of the language of pantomime, and the requiring the pupils and professor 
 to communicate with each other only by language, whether by speaking orally, or by 
 writing. It is of the utmost importance that the deaf mute, arrived at this final 
 degree of instruction, should cease to think in his language naturally imperfect 
 and elliptical, translating, as he does from it, his ideas into our language, and 
 that he should think and express himself originally, in the language of the speak- 
 ing world, whether by voice, (if taught to articulate,) or by writing. Without 
 this condition, I repeat it, there would be one class more, but not a class of 
 special instruction." He added that the class should be confined to a speaking 
 professor, assisted by a deaf mute." 
 
 Hear also what Dr. Peet says : 
 
 " This judgment passed by Itard on the attainments of the pupils, as the result 
 of his forty years' of observation, beginning with the palmy days of Sicard, only 
 shows that the Institution of Paris, renowned as it has been, is no exception in 
 point of average success to the general rule. In fact, all teachers of the deaf and 
 dumb in all countries, and under all systems, have been forced to acknowledge, 
 with pain and humiliation, that after their best eiforts have been bestowed, they 
 are able to show a few exceptional cases only, of deaf mutes from birth, who have 
 attained the ability to read books with the ease, pleasure and profit which well 
 educated persons associate with the idea of reading'. Of course, some instn'ctors 
 
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 conduct their pupils much further in language, as in general knowledge, than 
 others can or do; still we all find, at the end of the term, the mass of our pupils 
 far below the summit, at which we aim, and which few of them became able to 
 scale." 
 
 Tho sentiments of Itard are thoseof myself and assistants, and 
 we follow that method, merely using natural signs as a test of 
 comprehension between teacher and pupil. 
 
 To raise up the New York School to the highest pin- 
 nacle of glory, the Chief Superintendent statpg that 
 several (?) from Canada receive instruction there. It is 
 not so. I find by reference to the Keport of that Insti- 
 tution for 1864, just issued at the time of the Doctor's visit, 
 that there was only one — Henry A. Porter, from Megantic, 
 Canada East. Had there been several from Upper Canada, say 
 even four, it would have been a reflection on my School, although 
 it may not have been so intended. I think there were two there 
 in 1865. 
 
 That the semi-mutes educated in the New York School possess 
 an extraordinary faculty of memorizing language, I have no 
 doubt. I condemn, however, with all my heart, the application 
 of this memorized language to the production of results calculated 
 to strike public attention, and thus embarass honest and faithful 
 teachers in the discharge of their duties.* Dr. Ryerson believes 
 and writes with emphasis, that the successful instruction of the 
 Deaf and Dumh takes rank as an intdlectual achievement with 
 the highest efforts of the human Tnind^'' even such a mind 
 which the venerable Chief Superintendent feels he possesses on 
 educational subjects and projects — the education of the Deaf and 
 Dumb excepted. 
 
 Whilst criticizing his report before me, I have stifled the feel- 
 ings of just indignation which had found a lodgment in my heart ; 
 not, however, as may be supposed, because I was not recommen- 
 ded for the much coveted ofiice of Principal. Believe it not. I 
 am quite at ease on that point, as the following extract from my 
 last Annual Report will show the full extent of my aspirations, 
 which no doubt will be realized : 
 
 " But there is a drawback,f the removal of which, can only be 
 efiected by a change in the management of the establishment. 
 To this, I have frequently directed the attention of the individual 
 
 IS, 
 
 * Mr. David Burton, Principal of the Liverpool Institution, in his last special 
 article in Chamber's Encyclopoedia, condemns those teachers of the Deaf and 
 Dumb who exhibit the spurious proficiency of their pupils with the view of striking 
 public attention. 
 
 fThis drawback is removed, ^^ 
 
 issr™i««»^."*t.; 
 
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 meraberB of your boatd, and I sincerely hope that you will, before 
 the close of the school for the summer vacation, be empowered 
 by the Government to carry my views into pratical effect. My 
 proper position is in the department of instruction, where, freed 
 from the anxiety and care of the general supervision, collecting 
 funds, &c., I could the better throw my whole mind into the 
 instruction of the deaf and dumb, and thus move in my native 
 element. Placed in such a position ray fondest anticipations 
 would be realized." 
 
 1 do feel very keenly, and it rankles in my breast — the slight 
 offered me by the Chief Superintendent, in his having never 
 visited our Canadian Institution, recognized as it is by Govern- 
 ment, and the County Councils of the Province. This neglect on 
 the part of one in his position, as a member of the Board ot Direc- 
 tors of this Institution appointed by Government, is to me and 
 others inexplicable. 
 
 The only conclusion arrived at by those who know him well, 
 is, that " he wishes to place another wreath on that chaplet, 
 already too weighty for his brow," or by the introduction of a 
 system of deaf-mute education into the Province, probably to 
 reciprocate the honors conferred on him by the College authorities 
 of the States, in their having conferred on him the degree of D.D. 
 
 I have read the works of many authors of rare ability, who 
 directed their greatest literary efforts to establish truths by the aid 
 of sophistry, and designed to rob another of that honor, gloriously, 
 because unselfishly won, and place it to the credit of their own ac- 
 count ; but never had I perused such a stretch of imaginative pow- 
 ers, clothed in such eloquent and forcible arguments, as the produc- 
 tion of Dr. Ryerson, in his Report on the Institutions for the 
 Deaf and Dumb, and for the Blind, in Europe and in the United 
 States, to effect a similar object. Supremely clever as he is in 
 carrying into practical effect his own arbitrary views on 
 educational subjects and projects, he cannot import a Principal 
 and throw overboard the services which we have rendered in the 
 mitigation of human affliction for nearly eleven years. Astonish- 
 ing, that the Statue of Lyon McKenzie, in the Normal School 
 buildings, was not given the power of utterance to proclaim 
 aloud the great injustice he has done us ! I am placed in a 
 defensive position, and if I have written too strongly, I only 
 express what I feel. Why overlook the tact and talent of my 
 two assistant teachers, than whom their superiors are not to be 
 found in the Province in every principle that adorns the character 
 of the gentleman and the christian, one cf whom was considered 
 
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 oy the Principal of the New York Institution " an ornament to 
 the profession." Both are capital instructors and educators of 
 the Deaf and Dumb. " 
 
 Mr. Terrill'b visit to Deaf and Dumb Schools in the States, 
 and mine to England and Ireland last summer, lead us to believe 
 that our Institution is inferior to none which we visited. 
 
 SUGGESTIONS EESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED FOR THE SUPERVISION 
 AND MANAGEMENT OF OUR PROVINCIAL INSTITUTION. 
 
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 PRINCIPAL'S DUTIES. 
 
 In the United States, the duties of Principal embrace the 
 general supervision of the whole establ'hment, in all its 
 various details, namely : — training of teachers, examining the 
 classes, teaching the head class, directing Steward, Matron, 
 Servants, payment of salaries, wages, correspondence, with a long 
 train of &c'8. The result of these multifarious duties is obvious 
 to the considerate mind. 
 
 In Great Britain, the duty of the Principal is solely confined 
 to the educational department. He is responsible for the 
 training of teachers, and the progress of all the pupils, and 
 nothing more ; hence it follows that he is placed in a position 
 to give his whole time and attention to the eflficient performance 
 of that special duty. 
 
 BOARD OF DIRECTORS. 
 
 I have no faith in public Boards, on the grounds that in 
 Canada neither clergymen, nor gentlemen can spare the necessary 
 time to exercise that supervision over, and attention to the 
 duties, which may devolve on them in the various departments 
 of a public Institution. Besides this, I must say, as far as I am 
 capable of judging. Boards of Directors do not carry out those 
 principles of economy observed in their own transactions. 
 
 Economy in a Public Institution is ever promotive of sound 
 moral principles, and sheds its healthy influence among tlie 
 inmates and domestics. 
 
 To place the Institution under the Board of Public Instruction, 
 would prove a great mistake indeed, for this reason, that there 
 are two many Divines there, all of whom have the care of Churches. 
 
 TAXATION. 
 
 If a general tax be struck for the maintenance of the Institution, 
 similar to that made for the Lunatic Asylum, it will be equitable, 
 
n 
 
 blic Instruction, 
 ison, that there 
 are of Churches. 
 
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 jiiGt and oatisfactory. $1 IVoni cacli School Sccti 
 J/rovijicc, would alao luoct tlio cx[jcnscs of an est? 
 
 Section of the 
 tablislinieut 
 capable ot meeting onr requirements. If on the other hand, the 
 County Councils he compelled, by Legislative enactments 
 to vote $100 (nob $150 as proposed by Dr. Kycrson,) for each 
 deaf-mute from their I'cspective Counties, it will, undoubtedly 
 prove a great stumbling l)k»ck in the way of securing the attend- 
 ance of the Deafaiul Dnnd) at School. Their neigldionrs will 
 throw in the face of the parents of this unfortunate class, the 
 taunting remark, "wo are taxed for your dummies." Canadians 
 would prefer to keep their " Children of Silence " qnite illiterate, 
 rather than be subject to unkind remarks of this nature. This 1 
 know from experience. Ajiart from this, the m nubers of County 
 Councils generally obtain tne much coveted o'llce of lleeve, by 
 showing how economical he will manage *.hc public fnnds, and 
 this promise he must fulfil or lose his llccveship. 
 
 If every County Council in Ontario were as anxious to mitigate 
 Inimau misery and afHiction, as York, Wellington, Si nicoc,Huron, 
 and Norfolk have been, then by all means let County Councils 
 supply the funds, say $100 for each ])upil, supjdemented by a 
 Government grant. 
 
 Should Dr. Ryerson's proposition be entertained that each 
 Municipality pay $150, for each pupil per ani.um, I should pity 
 the Municipalities in the Eastern part of the Province, and the 
 Counties of Middlessex and Grey, where there is a very large 
 number of Deaf and Dumb to educate. Lambton, Kent, Oxford 
 and other rich Counties, would benefit by Dr. Rycrson's mode, 
 there being only five or six Deaf and Dumb in the latter Counties 
 
 AGRICULTURAL PURSUITS FOR BOYS, AND THE TRADES OF PANT, 
 VEST, AND DRESS-MAKING FOR GIRLS. 
 
 The average time of man's labor is OOOO days ; which at $1 per 
 day gives $9000 for the benefit of the Province. 
 
 A knowledge of scientific agriculture practically obtained is a 
 desideratum of tlie Province. 
 
 The 50 acres of land on which the buildings are to be erected, 
 will be found of inestimable value in the way of giving the boys 
 a knowledge of scientific agriculture and horticulture, as well 
 as, in reducing to a considerable extent, the expenses of the 
 boarding department. To purchase fuel, provisions and groceries, 
 at the right time — fuel in the sleighing season-- provisions in the 
 fall, and groceries at auction sales, at wholesale prices, will 
 
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 effect a saviiiL; of nearly '20 per cent. To keep, feed and kill 
 cattle, Hlieep and lio<:;fi, is another source of ])rofit not to he despised. 
 I reiterate hero my ojtinion that the Ehucation of the Deaf and 
 Dumb in economical management, ranks hip;her than their 
 instruction in Pneumatics, Ilydrostatics, Philosophy, Orni- 
 thology, tfec, &ii. A large number of the girls should be taught 
 domestic economy in all its branches: those living in towns and 
 villages, ]tant, vest, and dress making. In conclusion, 1 would 
 say, let us aim to make the unfortunate Deaf and Dumb good, 
 useful, and self-sustaining members of society ; and whatever 
 may be the extent of their vocabulary, l)c 'it however limited, 
 our chief aim should be to develop their reflective faculties by 
 attaching to each and every word, phrase, and sentence, clearly 
 defined ideas. _^ •' "' 
 
 ' To teach deaf-mutes to comprehend '■^Acoustics,''^ Hydrobtatics, 
 Pneumatics, &c., &c., is as impracticable ac to teacli the Chief 
 Superintendent to lean <m the opinion, ur be guided by the 
 experience, of others wliose knowledge of the sultject under 
 discussion has been practically obtained. 
 
 All of which is respectfully submitted. 
 
 . ■ J. B. McGANN. 
 
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 S. J. Lane, 
 
 A. Campbell, 
 
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 A. McDonald, 
 
 Robert Rae, 
 
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 John Fisher, " 
 
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 Thomas Stoney, " 
 
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 Gentlemen, — : . ' 
 
 In submitting for your consideration the Treasurer's 
 Report for the year ending the 31st December, 18G8, I am 
 happy to state that notwithstanding the high figure at which 
 provisions, &c., have been purchased during the year just 
 closed, added to the outlay for furniture, bedding, and 
 crockery, &c., onr financial condition is not unsatisfactory. 
 
 You will, doubtless, be happy to learn that the finances of the 
 Institution has warranted me to expend for my own use and 
 benefit $1,052 71, by which I was enabled to take a most plea- 
 sant and beneficial trip to Europe with the view of increasing 
 my knowledge of Physical Science and other subjects con- 
 nected with my professional avocation. 
 
 Should it please the Almighty, for whope Provideniial dispen- 
 sation I i'eel so largely and deeply indebted for past mercies, to 
 spare me in health to submit to you my next Annual Report, 1 
 shall be haj)py to give a full account of the rise and progress of 
 Deaf-mute education in England, Ireland and Scotland, to the 
 Vital Statistics of which 1 have devoted the whole ot my time 
 while abroad. 
 
 
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 By lofpi'oiico to tlio ftcfoiinl; of tlu» Troasnror, you may see 
 that I was oMij^cd lo borrow $400 in tli<' l>iiuk of Conunorco to 
 meet Bome lucssing liabilities. Tlie iircossity of this, to me, 
 painful cluty, aros(( from tho withtlrawal of iloiiations by 
 some C/oiinty Councils, on the ]>lt'ii that tho lustitutiou is, or 
 soon will be, in tho huiuls of tlu* (rovornmcnt. it is not so, nor 
 will it bo, till tho lU'w buildings aro (M'cittcd aiul ready for tho 
 reoeption of tlu; ])Upils. The withdrawal of some few of my 
 pui)ils whos(! ])!Lrouts, from inability to ])ay for their Board, keep 
 them at hoiru> till tho Provincial institution be in ojieration, has 
 prosenled dillicnlties of no ordinary kind to my assistant teach- 
 ers in tho way of eU'ectinj;' a benelicial classitication of those 
 entrusted to their tuition. 
 
 riavint|f, for a ijoriod of nearly eleven years, had the care and 
 oversiii^ht of nearly 2(»() deaf-mutes, all ol' whom have, in their 
 exemplary c(tnduct, <^iven evidence of careful traininp;, I should 
 hope that now, at the clevenih Iiour^ you M'ill not withdraw that 
 support whicdi you so clu'erfidly :u<!orde(l nn^ in the past. 
 
 I am happy to bear testlnu>ny to the punctual manner in 
 wdiich the County Treasurers meet my demands. Both County 
 Treasurers and Clerks have shown me marked kindness and 
 courtesy, for whi(di 1 feel truly thankful. 
 
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 SUHSClUPrTONS AND DONATIONS. 
 
 i'H'lhi 
 
 KIIOM COINTV OOIINt'11.8. 
 
 Coipoiation of Hiimilton |ir>(» oo 
 
 " Toronto 100 00 
 
 Co. Council Hmnt .-. . . 'iOO OO 
 
 " Bruce, (donation). 25 00 
 
 « Carlcton 150 00 
 
 " Givy, (lion.) 40 00 
 
 " Iliil.iiniftnd ion oo 
 
 " IIuKott, I unpfiiii) 
 
 » lliiMin ..' 227 00 
 
 " l.iualitoti (ii>i|)iiid) 
 
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 " MifltilcHox 25 00 
 
 " Noitolii 24r» 00 
 
 " N. iuul Diuliiini.. no 00 
 
 '• Oiitiuio (lion.) 40 00 
 
 " Slmcoi! 20(! 00 
 
 " Victoria (don.)... 50 00 
 
 " WcllinKlou 250 00 
 
 » \Ventwortli(ilon ). 100 00 
 
 '< York 357 50 
 
 TownBliip Mornington 50 00 
 
 Borrowed, Banii of Commerce. 400 00 
 
 DONATIONS AND I'liEMIUM ON DILLS. 
 
 iMr. Siaiior, Ayr $ 10 00 
 
 Mr. Goldie, do 10 00 
 
 Mr. Fnirgrieve 1 00 
 
 Mr. Freeman 5 00 
 
 Centenary Church 10 00 
 
 Knox'H Chun h 10 00 
 
 Premium 72 50 
 
 Pay pu]>ils !f 1 532 95 
 
 Omitted in ISGV for Ellen 
 
 Hewson 30 00 
 
 COLLECTIONS. 
 
 Poole (Mr. Watt) $ 3?, 00 
 
 Bridgeport 11 05 
 
 Hawkcsville 3 07 
 
 do 1 36 
 
 Gait 71 •>''. 
 
 Roseville 3 00 
 
 roLLKCTioNK {continued ) 
 
 Pi( kcring 29 28 
 
 Bath 15 50 
 
 Waterloo 3 00 
 
 Newcastle 4 90 
 
 Bowmanvllle 41 00 
 
 Gananoquo 14 Ct3 
 
 Mftliorytown 5 75 
 
 Martintown 1 7 80 
 
 Cornwall 28 10 
 
 Milton 18 33 
 
 CnneHtogp, 24 00 
 
 Aultsvillo 2 37 
 
 Athol ; 20 00 
 
 IroquoiK 7 70 
 
 Windham 12 00 
 
 JerHcyvillc 8 05 
 
 Wroxcter 15 00 
 
 BIythe 30 00 
 
 Miilbank 11 00 
 
 St. Catherines 20 43 
 
 Morrisburg 2 05 
 
 Almonte 6 25 
 
 Arnprior 34 62 
 
 Stratford 37 17 
 
 Edwardsburo 2 09 
 
 New Dundee 11 GO 
 
 Pakcnham 12 00 
 
 Entrance fee, over expenses on 
 
 examination tour 277 49 
 
 {Near Hamilton.) 
 
 Bartonville 9 S5 
 
 Mount Albion 5 25 
 
 Barton 3 25 
 
 Hall's Corners 43 00 
 
 Plains Cliapcl 19 30 
 
 Millgrove 4 30 
 
 Carluke 42 80 
 
 Rockton 15 12 
 
 Port Nelson 7 38 
 
 Nelson 1 75 
 
 Freelton 37 55 
 
 Alberton 37 17 
 
23 
 
 AMOUNTIi EXl'ENDKD FKOM 1864 TO END OF 18«8. 
 
 
 
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 Tt*r. 
 
 Amount exprndcd. 
 
 ninlnlnliH (1— <itiy pii|illN n<>l 
 eniinii'raUHl. 
 
 ^ 
 
 1864 
 
 f3,044 
 
 40 
 
 
 1865 
 
 fi,fi78 
 
 tiO 
 
 
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 7,146 
 
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 1867 
 
 ft.nns 
 
 52 
 
 
 18«8 
 
 7,273 
 
 60 
 
 AvtMBKo nnnual f.viumdifiirc, $5,;tJ7. Avf-raKo mimlMT of piipilH picKciit, 51. 
 T'oHt |)i'r pupil per annum, im liidinp; salaritH, wapcp, and purchuKct of fiirnUiire 
 laid in during thoHo tivu yeairt. 
 
 [The loUowiiig lotter, unexpectedly received, is the unaided 
 composition ot a semi-mute, who lost hearinji; at the ii^e of 
 age of seven years, and who was only two years under in- 
 struction in this Institution. I would, in this connection state 
 that we hav(; not, in our examination tour throughout the 
 Province, exhi})itod the proliciency of semi-mutes. It is just 
 to observe that the writer referred to had learned to read 
 words of one and two syllables beiore he lost hearing. The 
 itinerant quack. to whom R. Slater refers, is a humbug.] 
 
 Dear Miss McG-ann: 
 
 Galt, Jan. 11th, 1868. 
 
 I now commence to write a letter that ought to have 
 been written long ago. I enjoyed myself very highly at the 
 Provincial Exhibition. You must excuse me for not calling 
 before I left— I was so interested with the Show that I could 
 not leave until it w^as time for home. I only had one day at 
 Christmas, or I would have gone to Hamilton. It was a A'ery 
 quiet day with me, because I stayed at home. It has been a 
 very long time since I received a letter from David Hambly. 
 I have had no skating this winter yet. Unless we have a 
 change the sleighing will be over, and v/heeled vehicles will 
 be brought out again. I am attending a Russian doctor from 
 Hamilton ; he said ho cured a deaf mute in Hamilton. I 
 . think I am getting a little better. He said it would take him 
 about nine months to cure me. Perhaps you will know h'm. 
 
 I have no more to say at i^resent, but remain, as ever, 
 
 Yours truly, 
 Write soon. R. SLATER. 
 
 Printed at the Spectator Office, Prince's Square. 
 
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MALE PUPILS IN ATTENDANCE FOR 1868. 
 
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 NAMES. 
 
 POST TOWN. 
 
 COUNTY. 
 
 Bfemcr, James 
 
 Simooe 
 
 Norfolk. 
 
 niiick, James 
 
 Nassagaweya 
 
 Halton. 
 
 Fiowon, Artlnir 
 
 Penvi lo 
 
 Sinicoe 
 
 Ilruvcii, Aljjlia 
 
 Welland 
 
 Welland 
 
 Ciinipbull, A 
 
 Williams 
 
 Middlesex. 
 
 C'assidv, (/'roigliton 
 
 Creekbank 
 
 Wellini,'ton. 
 
 rowi'ii, Jclin 
 
 ])or(,'he8ter 
 
 Fitzroy Harbour 
 
 Middlesex. 
 
 ( 'iinimiiijjs, William 
 
 
 DariU', John 
 
 Surnia 
 
 Lnmbton. 
 
 Kllis, Jolin 
 
 
 Simcoe. 
 
 Emmet, Samuel . . 
 
 Brantford 
 
 Brunt. 
 
 F^.anl, Mark 
 
 Concord 
 
 York. 
 
 Frank, Solomon 
 
 Sirailirov 
 
 Middlesex. 
 
 Fiazir, ]ln"li 
 
 Bullock's ('ornei's 
 
 WeutAvortli. 
 
 l''reincl, ("liarles 
 
 Chippewa 
 
 AVelland. 
 
 Iliidden. Jiilin 
 
 !Moore 
 
 Lambton. 
 
 lliimniel. John 
 
 Arkwrifiht 
 
 Bruce. 
 
 Hoy, Uol)url 
 
 .■\ van ton 
 
 Perth. 
 
 Howe, dharles 
 
 Toronto 
 
 York. 
 
 Kav, William 
 
 Stratfurd 
 
 Nassaijaweva 
 
 Perth. 
 
 Kelly, (Jeorire 
 
 Liniisav, William 
 
 Halton. 
 
 <ranano(iue 
 
 Nantieoke 
 
 
 Lewi, ru^Maf. .-i-Ci^oJju 
 
 Haldimand. 
 
 Miirriiw, John 
 
 Wroxeter 
 
 Osgood 
 
 Perth. 
 
 McLaren, Alexander ... 
 
 Carletou. 
 
 McK;iy, W. I{ 
 
 Kingston 
 
 I'"'ronlenac. 
 
 Fringle, David 
 
 Seal'orlh 
 
 Huron. 
 
 Iiieliardson, ^Villiam 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 Wentworth. 
 
 Kiitlierford, .f 
 
 liocklon 
 
 Do. 
 
 Sihuell, John 
 
 Zurich 
 
 Huron. 
 
 Schnell, Henrv 
 
 do 
 
 Do. 
 
 Smith, William 
 
 Shakespeare 
 
 Perth. 
 
 >iu! Ion, liolierl 
 
 Ilranttord 
 
 Brant. 
 
 Wheeler, Frederiek 
 
 St. Ca'.liarines 
 
 Lincoln. 
 
 
 
 
 IF-iEiyCJLIjBS. 
 
 
 NAMES. 
 
 POST TOWN. 
 
 COITNTY. 
 
 Birney, Klizabeth 
 
 Elora 
 
 Wellinu'ton. 
 
 Brooks, lOlizabeth 
 
 Port Hope 
 
 York. 
 
 Bi'own. Mai^j^ie . .. 
 
 West Corners 
 
 Dui'ham. 
 
 Hyeri*. Sari'.li 
 
 Comnion, .\nnie 
 
 Nobleton 
 
 I'v'rlli. 
 
 Gait 
 
 Waicrlod. 
 
 Fairley, Isabella 
 
 (Juel|)h 
 
 V.'e!lini:ion. 
 
 l''airlev, ^lary 
 
 Do 
 
 Do. 
 
 Kleteher, Sarah 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 Wentworth. 
 
 Fiirloni;. Mary 
 
 Do 
 
 Do. 
 
 (iay, Muria.. . . 
 
 (tuel])h 
 
 Wellintjton. 
 Do. 
 
 <;raliam. Isabella 
 
 Ferf;us 
 
 
 Osfjood 
 
 Carleton. 
 
 Harris, Kllen 
 
 London 
 
 Middlesex. 
 
 11 unblv, Bella 
 
 Xrblelon . . 
 
 York. 
 
 TIcwson, Ellen . ... 
 
 Port Hoiie 
 
 Durham. 
 
 
 Mono Mills 
 
 Peel. 
 
 Milli.Uan. Jane 
 
 Miirphv, Mary 
 
 Orillia 
 
 Hrajitl'ord 
 
 Simcoe. 
 Brant. 
 
 * )"Kea. Marv 
 
 (Joderieh 
 
 Huron. 
 
 I'ratt, Emma ... 
 
 Oraiipeville 
 
 WeIlini;ton. 
 
 (Jandall, Ellen 
 
 Dunville 
 
 Haldimand. 
 
 Hapaliea. I.etitia 
 
 Sinu'.ee 
 
 Ncu'lblk. 
 
 K'ulherlord. Marpur(U 
 
 Hocklon 
 
 Wentworth. 
 
 
 Milton 
 
 Halton. 
 
 Story. Sarah 
 
 Aurora 
 
 York. 
 
 Vorrell, Kute 
 
 Hamilton 
 
 Weiitwortli. 
 
 
 
 
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 APPENDIX. 
 
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 By referriiif? to my Annual Report for 1867, It will be seen 
 that tlie amount paid on acconnt of " Suiierintcndent and 
 Tcacliers' salaries,"" was $l.P)83 oidy, for that year; leaving a 
 large balance to 1)0 ju-ovided for under that head, as shown in 
 the amount paid out for 1808. Salaries and wages in an institu- 
 tution for the deaf and dumb, when tlie number of inmates is 
 fifty or sixty, are as high as if one hundred were present. 
 
 The great difficulty presented in securing the services of a 
 competent matron — one who could converse intelligently with 
 the ])upils, and communicate between them and our very 
 -excellent and kiiul medical r.tteudant, Dr. Ryall, whom both 
 teachers and i)upils highly esteem — left me no other course to 
 ])ursue than that of earnestly soliciting my daughter, Mrs, 
 Watson, to give u]) the comforts of a private home, and bear, 
 the responsibilities of those onerous duties which none in the 
 Province could perform, Mrs. Terrill excepted. Aided by Mr. 
 AVatsor., who, in addition to his duties as Teacher, managed the 
 Boarding Department, and kept the accounts of the Institution, 
 I have " u'ot alonii; first-rate." The services of Mr. and Mrs. 
 Watson — gratuitously rendered — have not only effected a con- 
 siderable savinui; for the benelit of the Institution, but relieved me 
 of much anxious care. I can oidy say that I feel truly grateful 
 foi- these services, so zealously and so efficiently ])crformed. 
 
 Mr. Teirill and Miss McGann have also, in the instruction of 
 their respective classes, afforded me the highest satisfaction. 
 
it will be seen 
 intendeut and 
 ear; leaving a 
 d, as shown in 
 3s in an institii- 
 r of inmates is 
 present. 
 
 3 services of a 
 3llig-ently with 
 and our very 
 1, whom both 
 ther course to 
 laughter, Mrs. 
 lonie, and bear 
 h none in the 
 fVided by Mv. 
 \ managed the 
 he Institution, 
 Mr. and Mrs. 
 L'rt'ected a con- 
 lutrelievetl nie 
 truly grateful 
 3rformed. 
 
 instruction of 
 tisfaction.