The enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1804-1815, 1805-08-13
OF THE FIRST DEVELOPMENTS
OF THE
YOUNG SAVAGE OF AVEYRON.

A CHILD, about eleven OF twelve years of age.
who had been feen fome time Before in the woods of
Caune, in France looking after acorns and roots up
which he fubhited, met in the fame place to-
wards the eloe ofhe year 1898, by three fportinea
who feized upon him the infant he was climbing
tree to evade Their puruit. They conducted him
to neghbcurig village, and put him under the care
J OF an aged matron; from whom, how ever, before
the end OF week, he contrived to efcape and fed to
the mountains, where he wandered about during the
feverty OF rnoh rigorous winter, clad only in tat
eicd niiri at night he retired into fiiitary places
approaching, as the day advanced, the neighbouring
villages and in this manner he pafed vagrant
Kind Of life, till the time in which, of his accord
lie fought refuge in dwelling houe in the Canton of
S.. Sernin. Here he retained and taken care If
for two or three days and from thence fent to the
hoipnal of ST. Antique, afterwards Rhodez where
he was kept for feveral months. During his abode
in thee erent places he appeared to be always e.
9uay wild, impatient Of reataint, and capricious in
bis temper, continually endeavouring get away af-
fordng materials Tor the nof n;ereing obervations
which colleaed By perfon worthy of the utmoH
credit, and which ihsll fail to relate in thofe
parts of tie following Ebay where they may he moi
enthusiastically Introduced A clergyman 6ilt;pouab
ell IS patron Of fcience and general literature con-
eeiving that, from this event, Tome new light might
be thrown on the moral icience of man. Obtained ner
milton for the child to be brought to Paris Ne ar
rived there about the end Of the year 1899 under the
Of poor but respectable old man, who, being
obliged to leave him foon AFTER prsn1ifed to return,
and be father 10 him. If, any time, he fould be
abandoned BY .ociety
The moR brilliant but UNREASONABLE expectations
were formed by the people of Paris refpeins the So
Taee ct dreyror, before he arrived MANY curious
peel pie anticipated great piealure in behoding what
would be hi; afsonifhment the fight of all the fine
things in the capital. On the other hand, many per-
fcns eminent for their hyperion understanding foroet
ting that organs lefs flexible, and imitation
difficult, in proportion as mar is removed from
foeiey and the period OF his infancy, thought that the
education OF this individual would be the bui;neEs of
onya few months, and that they Gould very foon
hear him make the moi ftrikny obferystors concern
ing his paR of lie. Iuiead OF this what did
ihey fee IA dilguaing, Goyenly boy, Affected with
ipafmodic, and frequently with eonvul6ve motions
continually balancing himief like fome Of the animal,
in the melagerie, biting and scratching thofe no
contradcteS him, expecting kind Of affection for
thole who attended upon him; and, in mort ndifer-
emf 10 every body, and paying noregard to any thing
It may be eafy imagined thst bei1g Of this ma.
ture would excite only momentary euriofity. Peo-
pie came together in crowds they iaw him, wthou,
properly ob!erving him; they paded their judgment
on him, without knowing him and fpoke no more
the fubje6s. In the nidG OF ;hs general ndiffcr-
cpce the administrators o. the National Iniitutc for
the Deaf aud Dumb, and ts celebrated director, did
forget, that ioeiey in drawing to berfelf this ,,-
fortunate youth had contracted towards HIM ;nd;C
periabe obiig1;iars which Inc was bouud to fuI6;
Entering, then, into the hopes which had CONCEIVE
ed io, eoprte Of medical ;rcatmrn, they deiern,n-
cd that ne ihoUd BE- cutruQsd 20 my care
Obliged return - la9s already known, H,all
wfod tben az lev wofGs aod THAI NAV not JaLo,r
rrdeg the hIpeion of iaving exaggerated then, with
view o! enhancing t'ie Importance 81 thoGe which
'h9N opro'" 90 hen. NAY he e.edtd IL give 90