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if any doubts remained, the facts could ⟨be⟩ attested by living witnesses. The ⟨woman⟩ herself was alive in the year 1765 ⟨when⟩ thc translator and a Scots gentleman, then at Paris, had several conversations with her. To these two gentlemen ⟨he⟩ related the following particulars:— ⟨remembered⟩ that the country she came ⟨from⟩ was very cold, covered with ⟨snow⟩ a great part of the year: That the ⟨children⟩ there are accustomed to the ⟨water⟩ from the moment of their birth ⟨and⟩ learn to swim as soon as to walk:
That they are taught very early to climb ⟨trees⟩; and a child of a year old there, ⟨was⟩ able to climb a tree: That the people ⟨live⟩ in little huts above the water, ⟨like⟩ beavers, and subsist chiefly by fishing. She herself was so much used to water, that when she came to France she ⟨could⟩ not live without it, and was in ⟨use⟩ to plunge into it over head and ears, ⟨and⟩ to continue in it, swimming about ⟨and⟩ diving like an otter, or any other ⟨amphibious⟩ animal.
She supposes she was only about seven ⟨or⟩ eight years of age when she was carried away from her own country: yet by that time, she had learned to swim, ⟨to⟩ fish, to shoot with the bow and arrow,
