Excerpt from Ohio University Bulletin, Vol. 16: March, 1920 A most vigorous youth of sixteen, six feet in height and brawny, he enlisted as a soldier in i7s4 in the war between Great Britain and France. In the vari ous expeditions in which he took part he showed a dauntless courage and a rare hardihood. When the war was over he went to farming, but did not fail to continue the process of self improvement, mastering on the side, geometry, surveying and navigation, subjects for the most part self-taught. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.