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MEMOIR OF THOMAS BEWICK. 
him his peculiar line of excellence, anil to enjoy with- 
out jealousy his merit and success, even when it ap- 
peared, in some respects, to throw himself into the 
shade. When Mr Charles Hutton, afterwards the 
eminent Professor Hutton of Woolwich, but then 
a schoolmaster in Newcastle, was preparing, in 1770, 
his great work on Mensuration, he applied to Mr 
Beilby to engrave on copper-plates the mathemati- 
cal figures for the work. Mr Beilby judiciously ad- 
vised that they should be cut on wood, in which 
case, each might accompany, on the same page, the 
proposition it was intended to illustrate. He em- 
ployed his young apprentice to execute many of 
these ; and the beauty and accuracy with which 
they were finished, led Mr Beilby to advise him 
strongly to devote his chief attention to the improve- 
ment of this long-lost art. Several mathematical 
works were supplied, about this time, with very 
beautiful diagrams ; particularly Dr Enfield’s trans- 
lation of llossignol's Elements of Geometry. 
On the expiration of his apprenticeship, he visited 
the metropolis for a few months, and was, during 
this short period, employed by an engraver in the 
vicinity of Hatton-Garden. But London, with all 
its gaieties and temptations, had no attractions for 
Bewick : he panted for the enjoyment of his native 
