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time I faw ]icr), that he then fed very much upon leaves, and parti- 

 cularly upon the leaves of cabbage, which flie fiw him eat raw. He 

 v/as then, as fhe thought, about 15 years of age, walked upright, 

 but could climb trees like a fquirrel. At prcfent, he not only eats 

 lleili, but alfo has got the tafte of beer, and even of fpirits, of which 

 he inclines to drink more than he can get. And the old farmer above 

 mentioned, with whom he lived twelve years before he came to this 

 farmer, told me that he had acquired that tafte before became to him, 

 that is, about 25 years ago. He is alfo become very fond of Fire, 

 but has not yet acquired a liking for money ; for, though he takes it, 

 he does not keep it, but gives it to his landlord or landlady, which 

 I fuppofc is a lelTon that they have taught him. He retains fo much, 

 of his natural inftin(5l, that he has a fore-feeling of bad weather, 

 growling and howling, and fhowing great diforder, before it comes 

 on. 



Thefe are the particulais concerning him, which I obferved my- 

 felf, or could learn by information from others in the neighbour- 

 hood; and, from all thefe fads put together, the following obferva- 

 tions arife : 



iwo, Whatever doubts there may be concerning the humanity of 

 the Orari Outan, it was never made a qucftion but that Peter was a 

 man. * 



idoy That he was, as the Dean fays, of a father and mother like 

 one of us. This, as I have faid, was the cafe of the Savages found 

 in the difmal fwamp in Virginia, — of the one found in the iiland of 

 Diego Garcia, and of him that was difcovered by Monfieur le 

 Roy in the Pyrenees, and, in general, of all the Savages that have 

 been found in Europe within thefe laft three hundred years ; for 

 I do not believe that, for thefe two thoufand years paft, there has 

 been a race of fuch Savages in Europe, 



