. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . village three miles south of Darlington, is the birth-place of thecelebrated mathematician, William Emerson, who was born in May or June, 1/01. Inhis early years he was instructed by his father in the rudiments of education ; his fondnessfor books, however, was by no means conspicuous, and he himself declares, that hisattachment to the common amusements of childhood did not subside till he had arrivednearly at the age of twenty ye
. Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose . village three miles south of Darlington, is the birth-place of thecelebrated mathematician, William Emerson, who was born in May or June, 1/01. Inhis early years he was instructed by his father in the rudiments of education ; his fondnessfor books, however, was by no means conspicuous, and he himself declares, that hisattachment to the common amusements of childhood did not subside till he had arrivednearly at the age of twenty years. Subsequently, by the able assistance of masters atNewcastle and York, he pursued his studies with so much success, as to rank himselfamongst the greatest mathematicians of this country. Emerson might, perhaps, beindebted for his celebrity, in a great measure, to the chagrin which he felt at the con-temptuous treatment he met with from Dr. Johnson, rector of Henworth, whose niece hehad married. He, on one occasion of dispute, told the Doctor that he would be revenged,and prove himself the better man of the two. Mr. Emerson had the usual attendant of great. MEJK1E.
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