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can be done upon the soil. The soil and location make it admirable for "truck" gardening. In this the labor of young persons, even young children, may be made profitable. These are the principal considerations which suggested that place, and which still make it appear to be the best we know of, for a school where the pupils shall support themselves by their own industry, and at the same time learn a great deal beside "the three Rs" and how to teach them. We do not recommend the location for a normal school in the ordinary acceptation. For years to come such schools must be located in the midst of large populations, within twenty or thirty minutes walk (at the most) of every pupil. The pupils cannot go away from home to school, at their own expense, as they do in the north.

My own idea has been not to attempt a large or costly work at first nor to expect to turn out teachers rapidly, but to begin with a limited number of orphan children, apprenticed perhaps