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MISCKW,4WEQVS COMM WICATIQ&S,
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cyphering } , was miic ^ i surprised one . day r td hear fiirn repeating the products of several numbers !
Struck with amaze went at the circurostance ^ he proposed it variety of arithmetical ijuesttoiis ^ to fom , all of which the child solved with
remarkable facility * anrf correctness . The news of tpis inf ant prodi gy soon circulated tbrougji the nei g hbourhood ; and many persons came from distant parts tq witness so singular a cfrcutn
stance . The father , ' encouraged by the unanimous opinion of all who came to s £ e bi f ^ ' , was inducecf to undertake , with ibis child , * he tour of the United States . " They were every where received vyith
the most flattenpg expressions $ and in the several towns vi ^ ich they visited , various plans werp suggested to educate ari d ~ t > rin £ up the child , tree from all expense t $ bis family . Yielding , however ^ to the pressing solicitations of bis
friends , and uTged by the most re * spectable and ' powerful recommendations ^ as well as b y a vievi [ to his 8 Ofi ' s ' more com pit tc education , the father has brought the child to thjs country , where they arrived on the |^ tb of ttlav last : and the inhabitants of this metro *
polls have tor . these last tLree months had an opportunity of seeing and e-xamining thisjvvqhderful phenomenonj and ' of veriton ^ tike reports th ^ t ; Imve beeBcirculcited r «* p ? eting hi m * Many persons of the first eminence for their knowledge in mathematics , and well known for tbeir philosophical inquiries , have made a point of seeing and con * -
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Account of Jgerah Celhurn , an American boy ^ o prodigy , in Arithmetic .: ' London , Avg . 20 , 1812 . The attention of "the pliiloso .
phical world has been lately at . tratted by the most singular phenomenon in tihe history df the'hu * m ^ n toind that perhaps ever exisjed ^ It is the ease of a child , Tinder eight years of oge ^ who , without dny previous Knowledge ofthe CommWrules oferithmetic ,
pt even of tne use andpowjer of the Arabic numerals , arid witlK > u ^ t b ^ ving given any particular atteniwntd thestiiyect , possesses ( as if by intuition ) the singular faculty or solving a great vanety of
arithmetical questions by the mtre ope ~ ration of the mind * and without the usual assistance of any visible symbol or contrivance . ' The name of this child is Zerah
Colburn , who was born at Cabut , ( k ( own ly in ^ at the head of Onion river , in Vetmont f in the United states of \ America ) on the 1 st of SW p tem 1 &er | 804- About two yeiis ago ( August | 810 ) altbougli atiKat ^ ime nWtfx yedrs of « gi ,
hejirst began , to show those wc ^ hdrerfvil powers of calculation which have ^ mce ^ so m Ucfe at&acted ' flie attention and excite ^ the a ^ tomsh hmmm * * w » wS » im dll ^ HtiftMrawrY ftteUH ^ The discovery ' was made ^ acci ** derit * ^ fclis lather W ] tp h * d not
given him ^ ny other instruction than $ ! $ < $ , as wdl to v be obtaul $ 4 & % a sniaU school established , in tbaV W ^ f W * * W ?) f parf , ijff ttie cevnto f ( a ^ id Yvhi ^ JU ~ 4 id not anclude cither wr % Ung or
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Sept. 2, 1812, page 550, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1752/page/18/
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