And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter

Once a mill town producing everything from doors to bowling pins, the central NEK town of Barton is now better known for its easy access to waterborne recreation.

Twice in thy pleasant year the wattles crown With golden down Their somber rames, and with the gums' stiff leaves A dusk-white fragrant bloom May interweaves

The stones of the cornice, hitherto called X and Y, receive, now that they form the capital, each a separate name; the sloping stone is called the Bell of the capital, and that laid above it, the Abacus. Abacus means a board or tile: I wish there were an English word for it, but I fear there is no substitution possible, the term having been long fixed, and the reader will find it convenient to familiarise himself with the Latin one.