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36 mouth alternately, much in the same manner that a smoaker breathes with one corner of his mouth, while he holds his pipe in the other. In this way, by Le Blanc's account, she and her companion passed the Marne in their way to Songi, where she was taken, as before related.

remains now from these facts, which are by no means all equally certain, to form some probable conjectures about the way in which these two savages were transported to our continent, and remained undiscovered till their arrival near Chalons in Champagne.

of the natural aversion discovered by Madamoiselle Le Blanc at the fire, of her propensity to plunge into the water in the coldest weather, of her taste for raw fish which was her favourite food, and of the other observations already set down, which do not permit us to doubt of her being a native of some northern region, bordering on the Frozen Ocean: Her white colour, just like our own, is conclusive on this point, leaving not the smallest uncertainty: For it is an undoubted fact, that all the natives of the inland countries of Africa, and of the other warm and temperate climates of America, are either black, olive, or copper-coloured. If therefore the only remaining question were, How two young savages, of some