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tion from his new way of living, either in mind 

 of in person : he preserved the goodness of his 

 constitution till about the age of sixteen, but his 

 body seemed to increase very slowly during the 

 whole time ; and his stupidity was such, that all 

 instructions were lost in improving his under- 

 standing. He could never be brought to have 

 any sense of religion, nor even to show the least 

 signs of a reasoning faculty. They attempted to 

 teach him dancing and music, but in vain ; he 

 never could make any thing of music, and as for 

 dancing, although he beat time tolerably exact, 

 yet he could never remember the figure but while 

 his dancing-master stood by to direct his motions. 

 Notwithstanding, a mind thus destitute of under- 

 standing was not without its passions ; anger and 

 jealousy harassed it at times, nor was he without 

 desires of another nature. 



At the age of sixteen Baby was twenty-nine 

 inches tall; at this he rested; but having thus 

 arrived at his acme, the alterations of puberty, or 

 rather, perhaps, of old age, came fast upon him. 

 From being very beautiful, the poor little creature 

 now became quite deformed ; his strength quite 

 forsook him ; his back-bone began to bend ; his 

 head hung forward ; his legs grew weak ; one of 

 his shoulders turned awry; and his nose grew 

 disproportionably large. With his strength, his 

 natural spirits also forsook him ; and, by the time 

 he was twenty, he was grown feeble, decrepit, 

 and marked with the strongest impressions of old 

 age. It had been before remarked by some, that 

 he would die of old age before he arrived at 



