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 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 : That the children there are accustomed to the water from the moment their birth, and learn to swim as soon  to walk: That they are taught very  to climb trees; and a child of a year  there, is able to climb a tree: That  people live in little huts above the, like beavers, and subsist chiefly  fishing. She herself was so much to water, that when she came to  she could not live without it, and  in use to plunge into it over head  ears, and to continue in it, swimming about and diving like an otter, or  other amphibious animal.

She supposes she was only about seven eight years of age when she was  away from her own country; yet  that time, she had learned to swim,  fish, to shoot with the bow and arrow,