Biography of Self Taught Men With An Introductory Essay volume 1
Biography of Self Taught Men With An Introductory Essay volume 1
B B Bela Bates Edwards
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" A grammar of geography was almost the first thing which James Ferguson studied; although the minds of the two students, differing as they 8* 90 ALEXANDER MURRAY. did in original character, were attracted by differ- ent parts of their common manual ; the one pon- dering its description of the artificial sphere, the other musing over its accounts of foreign lands, and of the history and languages of nations in- habiting them. Murray, however, learned also to copy the maps which he found in the ...book ; and, indeed, carried the study of practical geography so far, as to make similar delineations of his native glen, and its neighborhood. O O - He was now twelve years of age ; and as there seemed to be no likelihood that he would ever be able to gain his bread as a shepherd, his parents were probably anxious that he should attempt something in another way to help to maintain himself. Accordingly, in the latter part of the year 1787, he engaged as teacher in the families of two of the neighboring farmers ; for his services in which ca- pacity, throughout the winter, he was remunerated with the sum of sixteen shillings !
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