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Rh their providence, therefore, will support me. The pleasure with which I set down this answer, repays, with usury, the pains I have taken to compose the preceding relation, which I shall finish with an account of the answers made by Le Blanc to the several questions I asked her, with regard to what she recollected of the first part of her life: And I shall subjoin the conjectures I have already promised about her native country and the accidents which may have brought her into France, and given occasion to the very singular circumstances of her discovery and capture.

acknowledges, that she did not begin to reflect till after she had made some progress in her education; and that during her life in the woods, she had scarcely any other ideas than a sense of her wants, and a desire to satisfy them. She has no remembrance either of father or mother, or any other person of her own country, and hardly any of the country itself, except that she does not remember to have seen any houses there, but only holes under ground, and a kind of huts like barracks, (a similitude of her own) into which they crept on all four; and she has even an idea that these huts were covered with snow. She adds, that she frequently mounted trees, either to protect