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 ſuppeditat quæ abunde ſatis ſint non ad alimoniam modo, verum etiam ad delicias ac voluptatem, quorum alia ſic exhibet, ut citra negotium protinus eis uti licet, alia rurſum ut cæteris admixta omnijugis ratio nibus ea conducent condiantque."—Plut. de tuenda valetudine.

"The wild girl who was caught in Champaigne, climbed trees like a ſquirrel, and leapt from one branch to another upon all four. She became, ſoon after ſhe was caught, incapable of thoſe exertions of agility; an alteration, which ſhe attributed to the groſs aliment they had given her, which, ſhe ſaid, had made her ſo much heavier than when the lived upon wild food."—See Monboddo on Language, vol. i.