JET. 17-20.] COUNT RUMFORD. 3 



to an evening-school to learn French, paying only for 

 the hours he attended. 



A note-book made by him about this time still exists. 

 It abounds in caricatures. Has receipts for different 

 fireworks. One of these ends with, ' Love is a noble 

 passion of the mind.' Contains the sum he paid for 

 learning French and for pew-rent, and the sums 

 gained by cutting and carting firewood for relatives. 

 Instructions for the back sword exercise, with a sketch 

 of two combatants ; and later there is an account of 

 6 what expense I have been at towards getting an 

 electrical machine,' and ' an account of what work I 

 have done towards getting an electrical machine.' 



In the winter of 1770 he was ill for five weeks with 

 fever. Then for eighteen months off and on he boarded 

 with Dr. John Hay, of Woburn, and whilst with him 

 he learned something of anatomy, chemistry, materia 

 medica, surgery, and physic. During the summer, 

 1771, he went to Cambridge, to attend Mr. Winthrop's 

 lectures on Experimental Philosophy. In the winter 

 of 1771-2 for some weeks he was teaching in a school 

 at Wilmington, and in the spring he taught at Bradford. 

 In the summer he left Dr. Hay for good, because he was 

 asked by Colonel Walker to become the fixed master of 

 a school at Concord, New Hampshire. This place had 

 been called Eumford when it belonged to Essex County, 

 Massachusetts. The name was changed when the 

 disputes as to the county to which it belonged were 

 ended. 



The Eev. T. Walker was the first minister of Concord. 

 He was a native of Woburn and connected with the 



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