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bee lilaEQi, to a i^udgeoa ; frcm which ii appears fhe had been in one 

 of thofe iilar-ds, in her way from America to France. She could climb 

 a tree, too, like a iqnirrel, and leap from one tree to another; but 

 all tbefe bodily factjltief, ihe told me, "wkh much regret, fiie had 

 left at the tirr.e I faw her. Who- would deure to know more of her, 

 may read her life, publiihed at Edinburgh in the year 1 768, tranf- 

 laied from the French by a clerk cf mine, who was with me ia 

 Frsnce. The faSs contained in the French work, I was aflured, 

 nsighr be depended on, by M. la Condamine, who knew the lady 

 that wrote it. In the preface prefixed to the tranflation, I have 

 related feveral fzdth concerning her, which I learned from the girl 

 herfelf : And if the reader be defirous to know ftill more concerning 

 her, he may read a converfation that 1 had with her, which I have 

 printed from a pocket book that 1 then kept ia Paris, and have publifti-- 

 ed in the appendix to this volume. 



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