. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. CHILDREN OF THE NSTANCES of children having been left by accidentor by unnatural parents to perish in solitary places,^v^ are unhappily to be met with in various eras of social[\ history. Sometimes the infants thus exposed have, bysome extraordinary means, been preserved, and have livedin a savage condition till found by chance and broughtwithin the pale of civilisation. It has occasionally happenedV that beasts usually remarkable for ferocity have nurturedthem until strong enough to subsist upon roots, berries, and otherfruits
. Chambers's miscellany of useful and entertaining tracts. CHILDREN OF THE NSTANCES of children having been left by accidentor by unnatural parents to perish in solitary places,^v^ are unhappily to be met with in various eras of social[\ history. Sometimes the infants thus exposed have, bysome extraordinary means, been preserved, and have livedin a savage condition till found by chance and broughtwithin the pale of civilisation. It has occasionally happenedV that beasts usually remarkable for ferocity have nurturedthem until strong enough to subsist upon roots, berries, and otherfruits. Children found under such circumstances have alwaysbeen regarded with interest. Though painful to the last degreeto behold a human being possessing all the characteristics of awild beast, yet it has been pleasing and instructive to watch thegradual development of their faculties, and the growth of theirmoral sentiments. It is our purpose in this tract to record someof the most prominent of these cases, detailing the more interest-ing at length. Many accounts of wild childrenâ
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