58 ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book 11. 



No. I. 



The firft account I can find of him is in the Edinburgh Caledonian 

 Mercury of Tuefday December 21. 1725, taken from the St James's 

 Evening Poft, December 14. 1725. It is in thefe words : 



* Hanover. The intendant of the Houfe of Correction at Zell 

 has brought a boy hither,* (to Hanover), * fuppofed to be about 

 fifteen years of age, who was found fome time ago in a wood near 

 Hamelin, about twenty-eight miles off this city, walking upon 

 his hands and feet, climbing up trees like a fquiriel, and feeding 

 upon grafs, and mofs of trees. 'Tis not yet known by what 

 ftrange fate he came into the wood, becaufe he cannot fpeak. He 

 was prefented to the King while at dinner, when his Majefty 

 made him tafle of all the difhes that were ferved up at table ; and, 

 in order to bring him by degrees to human diet, his Majefty has 

 ordered that he have fuch provifions as he likes beft, and that he 

 may have fuch inftrudtion as may beft fit him for human fociety.' 



No. II. 



From the Flying Pojl^ December 30. i']2^^reprinted in the Caledonian 

 Mercury^ January 7. 1726. 



' Hanover^ December 28. The circumftances about the Savage 

 ' Boy, found in the Woods of Hamelin, are confirmed almoft in e- 

 * very tittle, with this addition, that the boy having fince made his 

 ' efcape into the fame wood, he was there catched on a tree, where 

 ' he thought to hide himfelf.' 



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