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tracted their notice. And it was a great treat to 

 me, both then and at all other times, to observe 

 their different emotions, much more forcibly ex- 

 pressed in their countenances, than is possible to 

 be done by those, whose feelings are not equally 

 genuine. Civilized nations imperceptibly con- 

 tract an artificial expression of countenance, to 

 help out their languid feelings; for knowledge, 

 by a coimnunication with the world and l)ooks, 

 enlightens our ideas so much, that they are not 

 so liable to be taken by surprise, as the unin- 

 fonned mind of the savage, who never had the 

 least hint given him, that certain things are in 

 existence; consequently, they break upon him as 

 unexpectedly, and forci])ly, as the sun would do 

 upon a man who was born deaf and blind, in case 

 he should suddenly be brought to sight on a clear 

 day. 



Bemg on a dining visit, with that excellent sur- 

 geon and anatomist, the ingenious John Hunter,* 

 in the afternoon Attuiock w^alked out of the room 

 by himself, but presently returned with such evi- 

 dent marks of terror, that we w^ere all greatl}^ 

 alarmed, fearing some accident had happened to 

 liiin; or, that he had met wdth an insult from one 

 of the servants. lie seized hold (►f my hand, and 

 eagerly pressed me to go along with him. I asked 

 the cause of his emotion, but could get notliiiig 

 more from him than '' Come along, come along 

 with me," and he hastily led me into a room in 



' NoUhI siirKoon, ;inatomiflt, :in<l phyHioloKiat.; author of " TroatiHO 

 on the Blood, luflamuiution, and Ciuiwhot Wounda," etc. 1728 to 1793. 



