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18 to Songi, where she was taken, as above mentioned.

In her last year, she was in a poor state of health, having lost all her extraordinary bodily faculties, and having nothing of the savage, but a certain wildness in her look, and a great appetite.

The foregoing Narrative was drawn up under the immediate inspection of M. de la Condemine, a French gentleman whose curiosity and accuracy in matters of this sort, is universally known, and who had a particular acquaintance with Mademoiselle le Blanc. It bears the plainest marks of truth and authenticity; but if any doubts remained, the facts could be attested by living witnesses. The woman herself was alive in the year 1765, when the translator and a Scots gentleman, then at Paris, had several conversations with her. To these two gentlemen she related the following particulars:That she remembered the country she came from was very cold, covered with snow a great part of the year.That the children there are accustomed to the water from the moment of their birth, and learn to swim as soon as to walk.That they are taught very early to climb trees; and a child of a year