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timony goes to confirm the unquestionable fact, that
ordinary human appliances and aids did this extraordinary
ins accomplish his meritorious and noble work.*

 *Thelnatruction which Toussaint received in boyhood Is testlfledl
on Isaac, In hls Interesting N.tes to the Memoirs he wrote, "Bar 1
pltiiton des Franqali sous le Consulat de Bonaparte," appended to
ral' Histoire do 1'Expedlilon des Franqals ik Slat Domingue," Parti,
According to lsarc'a testimony, Tousanint when a boy learns sol
of Latin and geometry (p. 126.) Whilye yet le was In the service ofa
luan says of him, -" Without has Ing topographical maps of thond4
tries, after the example of captains of the ancient world, Luculla,']
pey, Cesar, Toussaint made one ; he laid down on paper, according
formation given him by people who knew ihe ditri'Ls, their exLent,4
respective distances, the direction of the mountains and of tho river
everything remarkable, such as defiles, &c. &c." (p. 3-.i). The kill to
laOh a map, oealdes involving reading and writing, gl'es countenal
the Intimation of Isaac Tousaalnt, that his father had *ome acquaisa
with geometry a well as drawing. Doubtless, the father's achald
as always quite rudimental.