DOI Seite / Zitierlink:
https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.70302#0314
289
HISTORY OF THE SAVAGE OF AVEYNON.
ing on that day given the French many memorable de-
feats.
Saturday was a fortunate day to Henry Vllth. Upon
that day he achieved the victory over Richard Hid.
being August the 22d, 1485 ; on that day he entered the
city, being August the 29th.
Thursday was a fatal day to Henry VHIth, and like-
wise to his posterity; he died on Thursday, January 28th.
King Edward Vlth on Thursday, January 6th. Queen
Mary on Thursday, November 17th. Queen Elizabeth
on Thursday, March 24th.
Saturday, or the Jewish Sabbath, was fatal to the tem-
ple of Jerusalem : for on that day it was taken by Pompey,
Herod, and Titus, successively.
Interesting History of the Discovery and Education of the
Young Savage caught in the woods of Aveynon, in
France, in the year 1798.
With a correct Portrait, and a Scene in the narrative.
The History of Peter the Wild Boy, who died about
twenty years since, is doubtless well known to most
of our readers, by the account given of him by the late
Lord Monboddo, in his ancient Metaphysics. The sub-
ject of the following pages was discovered under similar
circumstances, and if he has approached more nearly to
the state of civilised man, it can only be attributed to
the superior attention which has been paid to the deve-
lopement of his physical and moral faculties.
Towards the end of the year 1798, a child who ap-
peared to be about eleven or twelve years of age, and
who had several times before been seen in the woods of
Caune in France, seeking acorns and roots, on which
he subsisted, was caught by three sportsmen, who seized
him
HISTORY OF THE SAVAGE OF AVEYNON.
ing on that day given the French many memorable de-
feats.
Saturday was a fortunate day to Henry Vllth. Upon
that day he achieved the victory over Richard Hid.
being August the 22d, 1485 ; on that day he entered the
city, being August the 29th.
Thursday was a fatal day to Henry VHIth, and like-
wise to his posterity; he died on Thursday, January 28th.
King Edward Vlth on Thursday, January 6th. Queen
Mary on Thursday, November 17th. Queen Elizabeth
on Thursday, March 24th.
Saturday, or the Jewish Sabbath, was fatal to the tem-
ple of Jerusalem : for on that day it was taken by Pompey,
Herod, and Titus, successively.
Interesting History of the Discovery and Education of the
Young Savage caught in the woods of Aveynon, in
France, in the year 1798.
With a correct Portrait, and a Scene in the narrative.
The History of Peter the Wild Boy, who died about
twenty years since, is doubtless well known to most
of our readers, by the account given of him by the late
Lord Monboddo, in his ancient Metaphysics. The sub-
ject of the following pages was discovered under similar
circumstances, and if he has approached more nearly to
the state of civilised man, it can only be attributed to
the superior attention which has been paid to the deve-
lopement of his physical and moral faculties.
Towards the end of the year 1798, a child who ap-
peared to be about eleven or twelve years of age, and
who had several times before been seen in the woods of
Caune in France, seeking acorns and roots, on which
he subsisted, was caught by three sportsmen, who seized
him