6o ANTIENT METAPHYSICS. Book H. 



No. V. 



From the Edinburgh Evening Courant^ April 12. 1726. 



* London^ March 31. The wild youth mentioned in our laft is 

 ' dreffed in green lined with red, and has fcarlet ftockings. He 

 ' walks upright, and has begun to fit for his pidure.' 



No. VI. 



From the Edinburgh Evening Courant, J^b S' 1726. 



' London^ June 28. The wild youth lately brought from Hano- 

 ' ver, being pretty much forwarded in fpeech, is, ^vc hear, to be 

 * baptifed this evening at Dr Arbuthnot's houfe near Burlington 

 ' Gardens.' 



No. VII. 



From an occaftonal Paper ^ called^ * T^he Country Gentleman^ No. 1 o. 

 dated April II. 1726. reprinted in the Edinburgh Evening C our ant 

 of Augujl 8. 1726. 



' I was at court about ten days ago, where I faw a youth who is 

 one of the greateft curiofities that has appeared in the world fmce 

 the time of Adam. This wild creature is, they conjedure, about 

 twelve or thirteen years of age ; and the accounts they give us of 

 his behaviour fufficiently prove that he was entirely unacquainted 

 with his own fpecies. He was found naked in the woods of Ha- 

 melin in Germany, running upon all four, and fomctimes climb- 

 ing lip' the trees, like a fquirrel ; but which way he came there. 



