The Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1837-1867, 1848-09-16
TIL E called OMAN.
NJ7The following remarkable narrative
we copy from the last Sherbrooke &c. E.)
Gazette ......
The Lost Girl Found.

7 last. returned 10 UCl Ol tIlG OlSl uUNlIlB
been absent 81 days. A friend in Brompton
has sent us a circumstantnl account of her
,wanderngs, of the efforts made in her he
half, and her return home, from which we
condense the following statements.
Itappears that on the llth of August, in
company with two friends, she went fishing
on the north branch Of Windsor brook and
that on attempting TO return she became sep
arated from her companions, who returned
TO her mothers, the Widow Campell, expec-
ting 10 find her at hoHIe. Several Of her
neighbors searched for her during the night,
without success. The search was continued
during Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday, by
some so or 60 individuals, and although her
tracks and those of dog which accompa-
MED her were discovered, no tdings of the
girl were obtained. A general sympathy
Tor the afflicted widow and her lost daughter
was excited, g. Notwithstanding the busy
season Of the yenr, great numbers from
Windsor and the neghboring townships of
BromWon, Shipton, Melbourne, Durham,
Oxford, S'herbrookc, LeDnoXvillP, Stroke and
Dudswell, turned out with provisions and i'm
pIements for camping in the woods, in search
of the female which WINS kept up without in
PERMISSION for about II days, when it was
generally given up, under the impression
that she must have died, either from starva-
ton, or the nclemency of The weather, il Lav.
ing rained almost necessarily for nearly q
week Of the time.
On the olst hcr brother returned home
from MASSACHUSETTS,, ana win Two or three
Others renewed the search, but returned
the second day. ana tonhd TO their great Joy
uat Tie lost one llad iouhd hcr way home
the evening previous.
On hearing OF her return, our correspon-
dent made n visit n Widow (NnD,r,l,oll IN
hear from her daughter the story other wan
dorings. She was found as might he sup
posed IN very weak and exhausted coudi-
ton, but quite rational, MS it seems she had
been during the whole period of her absence.
From her story the following particulars were
gathered - ..... ........
When first lost she went directly from home
down Open Brooke, TO n meadow, about n
mile distant from where she left her com
panions. which she inistoosi for what is called
the 'O=iGS opening Il mile distant in the op-
oSe direction. On Sabbath morning, know
ing that she was lost and having heard that
lost persons might he guided by the sun, she
undertook TO follow the sun during the day.
In the morning she directed her steps towards
the East, crossed the north Branch mstnk-
ing it for Open Brooke and travelled. lre-
quently running, in Il South East direction
(her way home was due nortl) seven or eight
miles till she came to the great Hay Meadow
in Windsor. There she spent Sabbath night,
md Oh Monday morning directed her course
TO, aud thence down, tic South Branch in
the great Meadow. .....
After this she appears TO have spent her
time, except while she was searching for food
for hGrselra and dog, in walking and running
over the meadow and up and down the south
branch in search of her home, occasionally
tI,r l..,l, g..
down towards the junction of the two main
streams, never Icing more than seven or
eight miles from home.
For several DAVIS by attempting TO follow
the sun, she travelled in circle finding her
self at night near the place where she left in
the morning. Although she often came
across the tracks of large parties of men, and
their recently erected camps, and knew that
multtudcs Of people were in search of her.
she saw no living person, and heard no sound
of trumpet, or other noise, except the report
Oft gun. as she lay by brook, early Thurs
day morning the sixth day of her being lost.
Thinking the gun to have been fired not more
than hnlfa mile distant, she said she Scream
ed and rum to the place from whence she
supposed the noise came, but found nothing.
Early in the day, however she came to the
camp where this gun was fred, but not I'M
all after its occupants had left to renew their
search for her. This camp was about four
andes from the great meadow where She
spent:the sabbath previous. There she found
a fire dried her clothes,and found patridpe's
gizzard which she cooked and ate and lien
laid laid down and slept. remaining about d
hours. In her travels she came across sew
eral other camps some of which she visited
several times. particuIarlv one .wbero sbe
found names cut upon trees. and ,nother in
switch was piece of white manor Evcemt
three or four nights spent in these cn,ons
she slept upon the ground. sometimos max,
ing he'd ofmoss, and endenvoF;ng ~ shni,or
herself from the drenchinp rnins ,Sith s,.'',.a