If he does not overcome it, _it_ will overcome him." In a later letter he said: "The school is not the best, but the people are kind to him, and his health leaves no alternative.

He writes a good hand, is fond of figures, and is coming forward both in Latin and French.

Yet he inherits a spice of indolence, and is a little impatient in his temper.

His appearance--open, modest, and manly--is much in his favour.

He is grown a good deal, and left us for Margate (after his holiday) as happy as could be expected." In the course of the following year Mr.Murray sent the boy to a well-known school at Gosport, kept by Dr.Burney, one of his old Mends.
Burney was a native of the North of Ireland, and had originally been called MacBurney, but, like Murray, he dropped the Mac.
While at Dr.Burney's school, young Murray had the misfortune to lose the sight of his right eye.