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intend and instruct a military hand 



lemao in th- mnfyd Durham. A 

 engagement ended, he spent several yean in Leeds, 



it he had be* 



officers and men would soon discover from 



language and bearing lio wan, and seems to 



have remained, a mystery for yearn. In r, ; I he was 



nwidiiu' in Leeds, an-1 \\.-nt from \vn on a 



Towards the end 



<i5 he became organist of a church in Halifax, 

 re he applied himself to the study 

 Italian, and mathfiimtica. Music ho continued to 

 cultivate as his profession in lifV <l. -so years 



I \s : 



South* stories from Doncaster 



presents Herschel, tho astronomer, to have be< 

 1760, "only a few nmntl inland, an-1 y-t " able 



to speak "English as well as a Mill, r 



organist of Doncastor, who lived in a two-roomed 

 cottage, but had a collection of classical English works, 



UT:IIII.- :ir.|U:iint.-l with him thn-u^h an "llir.-r .f 



iMirhain Mi! .1 that 1 > i s engagement w i 1 1 1 



nient WHN only i'n-iu ni-.nth to month 



urged him to 1< i\ - 1 1 1 take up his alxxl<- in t h.- 



' I >ut and a ben," which ho did. Swift is alono men- 

 tioned as the English author Herschel preferred to 

 read, whirl i. though it be consistent with tho list of 

 given by his sister, is not altogether 

 ictory evidence of th* authenticity of Sout! 

 story, but, be that as it may, Miller was thus cut 

 to be called his "earliest acquaintance" in England, 

 itinl ( -rtainly his best friend, if it be true that he en- 

 1 Ttu Doctor, ii. 251, from Miller's DonauUr (1804), p. !. 



