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Rh rive about as much advantage as though they were written in Chinese. Hence, though some of them, through long habit, are expert in calculation, as is the case with many in England unacquainted with a single rule of Arithmetic, at school they learn even the four fundamental rules in so wretched a manner, that an English boy of eight years old would, in a few minutes, resolve a question in multiplication or division, the solving of which would cost them an expense of time scarcely to be credited.