Jedediah Buxton a poor day labourer, born at Elmton in Derbyshire, who without being able to write or cast accounts in the ordinary method, perfom'd the longest calculations and solv'd the most difficult problems in arithmetic, by the strength of his memory; neither noise, nor conversation cou'd interrupt him; he would either go on with his calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again even though it shou'd be years afterwards / [graphic]

Lewis Walpole Library > Jedediah Buxton a poor day labourer, born at Elmton in Derbyshire, who without being able to write or cast accounts in the ordinary method, perfom'd the longest calculations and solv'd the most difficult problems in arithmetic, by the strength of his memory; neither noise, nor conversation cou'd interrupt him; he would either go on with his calculations all the time or leave off in the midst and resume them again even though it shou'd be years afterwards / [graphic]