Early reading

During my stay with Mr Cumming I read many medical books and in general literature went through Popes translation of Homer's Iliad - Ossians Poems by Me..p... -Paradise regained, I preferred to Paradise Lost, as there were many references in the latter to the mythology of the Jews, Romans and Greeks that I could not comprehend - I may here mention that my eldest sister and I inherited from our father a defect in vision, called shortsightedness, obliging us to use spectacles for fifty years, but as we grew older and retired from active life, were able to resign their use, and cannow read with more comfort than most old people, who now require them.