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19 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 old there, is able to climb a tree.—That the people live in little huts above the water, like beavers, and subsist chiefly by fishing. She herself was so much used to water, that when she came to France, she could not live without it, and was in use to plunge into it over head and ears, and to continue in it, swimming about and diving like an otter or any other amphibious animal.

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