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time of Diodorus Siculus, had not learned to ipeak *, have fince 

 learned it; for there are now no people in ^Ethiopia who have not 

 the ufe of fpeech : And, in the fame manner, if by one of thofe ma- 

 ny revolutions, which happen in the affairs of men, a people of 

 arts fhould fettle in that part of Africa where the Orang Outangs 

 live, and mix with them, I think there can be no doubt that they 

 would acquire the faculty of fpeech, though, I am perfuaded, very 

 llowly, as Peter the wild Boy did. 



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* See pv 123. of this -vol. 



