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40 travelled but at night. They either may have roamed by chance, or their instinct may have induced them to proceed towards that quarter, where they saw the sun through the day, and particularly towards that point of the horizon where he had disappeared in the evening, and whither the twilight may have conducted them about the hour when they usually began their journey, as when they swam across the Marne. This journey, of several months continuance, through a woody country, although not amounting perhaps to 50 leagues, in a streight line, may have brought them towards the south west part of Lorrain, and from thence into that part of Champagne where they were found. And thus the adventures of Le Blanc may be easily accounted for.

may form a more simple story still, by supposing these two little savages to have been transported from their northern country, to some of the French West-India islands, such as St. Domingo, Guadaloupe, or Martinico, and to have been purchased there by some Frenchman, who soon after returned, with his family, to France, and settled in Lorraine, having brought these two children thither along with him. It is probable that they would soon make their escape. This would very naturally account for the little Le Blanc's seeming to understand some French words, and mincing others, almost immediately after