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XVIII, Account of an Infant Mufician. By Charles 
Burney, Dod/or of Mufic and F. R. S. 
S your curiofity feemed much excited by the extra- 
ordinary accounts of the Norwich mu heal child, 
and as you expreffed fome dehre to know in what parti- 
culars his performance was wonderful, and difpohtion to 
muhe fuperior to that of other children of the fame age : 
after making all the inquiries my leifure and opportuni- 
ties would allow, and repeatedly hearing and ftudying 
him, I have drawn up the following account, which, if 
it does not appear too trivial, I fhould be glad you 
would do me the honour of prefenting to the Royal So- 
ciety, as a mark of my refpect and veneration for that 
learned Body, who, as their inquiries extend to all parts 
of Nature, will perhaps not difdain to receive a narrative 
of the uncommon exertions of the human faculties at a, 
more early period of life than they ufually develope. 
Read February 18, 1779. 
TO DR. WILLIAM HUNTER, F. R. S 
SIR 
St. Martin’s-ftreet r 
Feb. 9, 1779, 
hO 
1 have the honour to be, 8cc 
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