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to this' purpofe from the Cau/es CekhreSy I have 

 a recent example before my eyes of the confu- 

 fion often caufed in families by thofe mercenary 

 Burfes. A gentleman, who was an officer of 

 jhe fame detachment which I was in, had long 

 been fuppofed to be loft by his nurfe. As foon 

 as he was born, he was fent down into the midft 

 of Normandy ; and his relations have only found 

 him out, when he was twenty-two years old, 

 through mere chance, after he had gone through 

 a feries of miferies and dangers during thac 

 time. 



I remember, that, in 1749, upon the road 

 between Paris and Arpajoity I was witnels of an 

 accident which happened to one of the little vic-» 

 rims which parents put from them, in order not 

 to be importuned by their cries. The nurfe 

 who was trufted with this child, had put it m 

 her apron ; as flie was ftepping into one of thofd 

 carriages deflined for thcfe journies, her apron,, 

 which was tied behind, got untied^ and the 

 child\fcll upon the pavement, and expired. 



Give me leave to fay^ that there is an entire* 

 difference between the way of thinking of the 

 European and the Indian women. The latter 

 would think themfelves abufed, if they were to 



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