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P^RTS, Friday, 22th March 1765. 

 ** npHIS day faw and converfed with Madcmoifelle le Blanc (fother 

 A called her). — Says that flie remembers the country, fhe came 

 from, is a very cold country, covered wi'Ji fucw a great part ofthe year 

 and the nights very long. That the children t lere are accullomedto .he 

 water from the moment of their birth— that they learn to fwim as foon 

 as they can walk ; and alfo to climb trees — and that a child of a year 

 old, there, will climb up a tree. That they live in little huts above 

 the water Ulce Beavers ; and that they fubfift very much by tiihing. 

 That flie was fo much in the ufe ofthe water, that, wixn fhe came 

 to France, fhe could not live without it ; and, at iirft, was in ufe to 

 plunge into it over head and ears, and to dwell in it like an Otter 

 or any other amphibious animal; and afterwards, when fhe was re- 

 ftrained from that, fhe always wafhed her head and hands. That 

 though file fuppofes fhe was a child only about feven or eight years 

 of age when fhe was carried away, yet, by that time, flie had learn- 

 ed to fwim, to fifh, to fhoot with the bow and arrow, to climb and 

 to leap from one tree to another like a fquirrel. That the people 

 of her countr}' had no clothing but flcins, and had no ufe of fire at 

 all: So that, when fhe came to France, fire was her abhoirence- and 

 flie could not even bear the clofe air of a room, nor the breati.s of 

 people that were near her. That there were another fort of men in 

 her country, who were bigger and ftronger men than her peorle, 

 and all covered with hair ; and that thefe people were at war with 

 her people, and ufed to eat them when they could catch them. 

 That fhe had, when fhe was catched, in a pouch by her fide, a club 

 with fome charadters upon it, which exprcffed her name, and the 



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