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 which the Antients exalted into Divinities under the Name of Satyrs, Fauns, and Sylvans. Perhaps more exact Enquiries will hew them to be Men. In the mean time, it appears to me as reaonable to abide by the Account of Merolla, a learned Religious, an ocular Witnes, and who with all his Candour was a Man of Genius, as by that of Battel a mere Merchant, or thoe of Dapper, Purchas, and other mere Compilers.

What are we to think uch Obervers would have aid of the Child found in 1699, which I have already mentioned; he did not hew the leat Signs of Reaon, walked upon all Fours, had no Speech, and formed Sounds which reembled in nothing thoe of a Man: He was for a long Time, continues the Philoopher from whom I have this Fact, without being able to utter even a few Words, and what he did utter, was in a barbarous Manner. As oon as he could peak, he was quetioned concerning his firt Condition, but he no more remembered any thing of it, than we do of what happened to us in the Cradle. Had the Child had the Misfortune of falling into the Hands of our Travellers, they would