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farther off; and the different Prates of the 
atmofphere, were diftinguilhable to him by 
the fame delicate fenfe of touch ; and his fenfe 
of hearing was refined to a fimilar degree of 
perfe&ion. He could readily afcertain the fifth 
part of a note of mufic. He not only diftin- 
guilhed and remembered the different people 
he Converfed with, by the peculiar founds of 
their voices, but, in Pome meafure, places 
alio. Judging by the founds of the pavements, 
of the courts and piazzas, and the refle&ion 
of thefe founds from the walls, he remembered 
the different variations, fo as to be able to 
recolledt the places, pretty exadly, when con¬ 
duced to them afterwards. 
We might produce a great variety of inftances, 
both antient and modern, where blind perfons 
have excelled in different departments of fciencej 
and particularly, in the leveral branches of 
mathematics. * But the attachment, which thefe 
unfortunate 
* Diodotus, the preceptor cf Cicero, is reprefented as 
attaching himfelf, with greater affiduity to the Science of 
Mathematics after he became blind. 
“ Diodotus Stoicus, cscus multos annos, noftrae domi 
?* vixit: is vero, quod credibile vix effet, cum in Philo- 
fophia multo etiam magis affiduc quam antea verfaretur 
“ turn quod fine occulis fieri poffit. Geometria: munus tueba- 
“ tur, precipiens difcentibus, unde, quo, quamque lineam 
fcriberent.” Cic. Tufc. difp. L. V. 39. 
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