Early in the century there was a Turkish trisector of the angle, Hussein Effendi, who published two methods. He was the father of Ameen Bey, who was well known in England thirty years ago as a most amiable and cultivated gentleman and an excellent mathematician. He was then a student at Cambridge; and he died, years ago, in command of the army in Syria. Hussein Effendi was instructed in mathematics by Ingliz Selim Effendi, who translated a work
of Bonnycastle[[37]] into Turkish.[[38]] This Englishman was Richard Baily, brother of Francis Baily[[39]] the astronomer, who emigrated to Turkey in his youth, and adopted the manners of the Turks, but whether their religion also I never heard, though I should suppose he did.
I now give the letters from the agricultural laborer and his friend, described on page 12, Vol. I. They are curiosities; and the history of the quadrature can never be well written without some specimens of this kind:
"Doctor Morgan, Sir. Permit me to address you
"Brute Creation may perhaps enjoy the faculty of beholding visible things with a more penitrating eye than ourselves. But Spiritual objects are as far out of their reach as though they had no being
"Nearest therefore to the brute Creation are those men who Suppose themselves to be so far governed by external objects as to believe nothing but what they See and feel And Can accomedate to their Shallow understanding and Imaginations
"My Dear Sir Let us all Consult ourselves by the wise proverb.
"I believe that evry mans merit & ability aught to be appreciated and valued In proportion to its worth & utility
"In whatever State or Circumstances they may fortunately or unfortunately be placed
"And happy it is for evry man to know his worth and place