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He is very ft rang : I law him take up and throw 
from him, with much Facility, a Blackfmith’s Ham - 
mer t which weigh’d Seventeen Bounds : And when 
he is provok’d by other Children, (for he goes to 
School) he does not fight with his Fiji, nor Legs , 
but collars them, and lays them proftrate by mere 
Strength. Thus, they tell me, he will frequently ferve 
Boys of eight or ten Years of Age. 
His Voice, in common, is extremely manly , as 
deep a Bafs as you can well conceives and he pro- 
nounces very diftin&ly. 
He has fomething a little favage in his Look ; tho’, 
they tell me, he is not naturally quarrelfome. 
He eats and drinks with great Moderation. 
His Underftanding feems to be equal to that of a 
Child of 5 or 6 Years old. 
He is quick of Apprehenfion, and has a very reten- 
tive Memory. 
He has fomething of a ftately Walk with him ; and 
feems confcious of that uncommon Share of Strength 
which the Author of Nature has endow’d him with. 
He is not made a public Shew of, but walks about, 
and plays in common with other Children. 
When I faw him, the Gians of the Penis was 
quite uncover’d j and his Aunt, and the Midwife, af- 
fured me it was always fo. 
His Father is a little Man , a Labourer : His Mo- 
ther (who died when he was but 9 Months old 5 and, 
as was fuppos’d, by giving him Suck ; for, they tell 
me, fhe was found dead with him at her Bread) was 
a Woman of a middle Stature . 
The Midwife allur’d me. That, when he was fir ft 
born, he was no other than what they commonly 
term, 
