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e. galt of Massachusetts, on the 26th day of March, 1 
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THE yee ‘ 
AMERICAN /¢* 
JOURNAL OF SCIENCE, &c. 
Art. L—Menwir of the Life and Character of Nathaniel Bow- 
ditch, LL. D., FR. S.; by Rev. Atexanper Youna. 
NATHANIEL Bowprrcu was born at Salem, in the Com ' 
fourth child of Habakkuk and Mary 
His ancestors, for three generations, had 
his father, on retiring from that p a é i 
carried on the trade of a cooper, by which he ee a seanty and 
precarious subsistence for a family of seven children. — 
I had a curiosity to trace up the life of this wonderful man, if P 
possible, to his childhood, to ascertain his early character and pow- 
ers, and the influences under which his heart and mind had been ; 
formed. Accordingly, on a recent visit to Salem, I took a walk, 
of some two or three miles, to see sores 
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the plain two-story house,* with but two small rooms in it, where 
he dwelt with his mother; and I saw the chamber-window where 
he said she used to sit and show him “the new moon with the 
old moon i in her arm,” and, with the poetical superstition of a 
— Jingle the silver in her Bacespiot:« that her husband 
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* This house is in Wire ers, near the junction of several roads, this side of the 
Derby farm. See wood cut, next page. fe 
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