140 Account of the Nuremberg Boy, Caspar Hauser. 



this being from whom, since the commencement of his moral 

 existence, had emanated all the gentle and benevolent affections, 

 has all these illusions dissipated by the violence of an assassin. 

 Happy, perhaps, had it been for him had he fallen under it, or 

 should he yet fall ! And yet, if, after having been struck by 

 the murderer, he drags himself mechanically and squats in the 

 corner of a cellar, as if he would again enter his cave, he who, 

 in the first moment of his social existence, had no other wish 

 than that of being led back to it, see him now become a social 

 man to such a degree, that his first cry is to supplicate that he 

 be not again led to it ! 



" This assassin, I only know, as yourself and as the public know, 

 through the medium of the newspapers. The young man, they 

 say, thought he recognized in him the voice of his conductor. It 

 is probable that the conductor is the assassin ; but it is also pos- 

 sible that the young man may be deceived ; for in that so well 

 remembered voice were concentrated all his ideas of evil. Be 

 this as it may, it is as a psychological phenomenon that I have 

 presented his history, and not as an adventure, respecting which 

 every one may form his own conjectures. All that I can say 

 is that the functionary who presented him to us, and who, by 

 the duties of his office, was charged with directing the inquiries, 

 has informed me that for a moment they imagined they had 

 found traces of a discovery ; but these traces had ended in no- 

 thing else than the rendering it probable that the place of his 

 imprisonment is to be found in a district at the distance of about 

 ten lean-ues from the city of Nuremberg." — Le Globe, 9,\st No- 

 vember. 



Fresh Water Springs at the Bottom of the Sea. 



These springs occur near the islands of Bahrain and Arad, 

 which are situated on the south side of the Persian Gulf Bah- 

 rain is low and more fertile than any island in that gulf Many 

 fine groves of date trees are scattered over it, and perhaps the 

 purest fresh water is to be found at a large pool having a spring 

 near it, within two or three miles of the town of Monania. 

 When Captain Maughan left Bahrain in 1828, the island was in 



