It would be quite some achievement for anyone to claim to be an accomplished musician with two instruments, to help raise a militia and lead those soldiers into battle, to make money from running a transport business and from trading in legal (and not so legal) wares, and to build roads and bridges, some of which are still in use over 250 years later. How much more so if that person was blind? The Eccentric Mirror magazine posed the question to its readers nationwide in 1807: ‘Who would expect a man, totally blind from his infancy, superintending the building of bridges and construction of highroads?’
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