. Miscellanies [microform]. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. i 3^7 ] The child both looksâ¢* and Is very hitelligent ii\ other matters, which do not relate to mufic, and draws in a bold malkriy way with chalk on the floor. One of his moft favourite objcds to reprefent is a violin, which he forms inftantaneoufly witli a few ftrokes; I need fcarcely mention the difficulty of reverfuig the two fides, and S's, which muft be very obvious to penmen, as well as painters. The boy likewife fucceeds very well in the hafty outline of a fhip. He is generally
. Miscellanies [microform]. Northwest Passage; Natural history; Nord-Ouest, Passage du; Sciences naturelles. i 3^7 ] The child both looksâ¢* and Is very hitelligent ii\ other matters, which do not relate to mufic, and draws in a bold malkriy way with chalk on the floor. One of his moft favourite objcds to reprefent is a violin, which he forms inftantaneoufly witli a few ftrokes; I need fcarcely mention the difficulty of reverfuig the two fides, and S's, which muft be very obvious to penmen, as well as painters. The boy likewife fucceeds very well in the hafty outline of a fhip. He is generally good humoured, though {o often teazed to play, wliich he readily comolles with for the moft part, if a child of the fame age is not in the room, whofe com- pany he is not pleafed with, perhaps apprehending that he will b? fet down to his organ, a property of which he feems to be extremely jealous'. The prefent Earl ofMornlngton'" furnifhes an inftanccof a ftill earlier attention to mufical inftruments. His father played well (for a gentleman) on the violin, which always delighted the child whilft in his nurfe's arms, and long ^ Crotch had now been vifited by moft of the mufical people in Lon- don, and his portrait was engraved ; but the rcfemblance is by no means a good one. * As I have mentioned fo many other proofs of early genius in children, I here cannot pafs unnoticed Mafter Lawrence, fon of an inn-keeper at the Devifes in Wiltfhire. This boy is now [viz. February, 1780] nearly ten years and a half old ; but at the age of nine, without the moft diftant inftrudiion from any one, he was capable of copying hiftorical piflures in a maftcrly rtile, and alfo fucceedcd amazingly in compofitions of his own, particularly that of Peter denying Christ. In about feven minutes he fcarcely ever failed of drawing a ftrong likenefs of any perfon prclcnt, which had generally much freedom and grace, if the fubjedt permitted. He ii likewife an excellent reader of blank verfc, and wi
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