Reading, which was once an irksome task, has become a pleasure to her.

Her ideas of locality and the independence of movement are remarkable, and her industry and patience are more noticeable from day to day.

She has great ability, and is in every respect a very wonderful child." According to recent reports, in the vicinity of Rothesay, on the Clyde, there resides a lady totally deaf and dumb, who, in point of intelligence, scholarship, and skill in various ways, far excels many who have all their faculties.

Having been educated partly in Paris, she is a good French scholar, and her general composition is really wonderful.

She has a shorthand system of her own, and when writing letters, etc., she uses a peculiar machine, somewhat of the nature of a typewriter.
Among the deaf persons who have acquired fame in literature and the arts have been Dibil Alkoffay, an Arabian poet of the eighth century; the tactician, Folard; the German poet, Engelshall; Le Sage; La Condamine, who composed an epigram on his own infirmity; and Beethoven, the famous musician.