Extract from schoolmaster's journal: G.B., aged 30: 'on his admission, began by repeating several of the Psalms; he then commenced the gospel of St John, and repeated a chapter everyday till it was finished, when he was taken off to do some prison work, but subsequently resumed, and continuously repeating a chapter, sometimes two, of other portions daily. The schoolmaster thinks this man will have committed to memory the whole of the New Testament before the termination of his imprisonment, and there are, at present in the gaol, he asserts, five others who have nearly accomplished the same task.'