... theportion he received with my mother, together with his own earnings, hewas enabled to quit the life of a sailor, to which he had been bred, and to enter into trade. After the death of his father-in-law, ... inclined to it: and,after shutting the door of his cell, I repaired to his little garden, to passthe allotted two hours. Left to my meditations, when I thought that I wasprobably about to be ... science, who wished to learn what Icould add to their knowledge of nature. To this class I was more commu-nicative; and when I severally informed them that I had actually been to the Moon, some...