ing to keep himself upright. In attempting to walk, instead of first treading firmly on his heel, as persons commonly do, he placed his heels and the balls of his feet simultaneously upon the ground; and, instead of lifting only one foot at a time, he would endeavour to raise both at once. In this miserably awkward manner, he toddled and stumbled slowly and heavily forward, with arms stiff and stretched out, which he seemed to use as balance-poles. The slightest impediment caused him to fall flat on the floor: and for a long time after his arrival, he could not go up or down stairs without assistance.' SECTION XI. Caspar Hauser-Continued. And THE surprise and wonder excited by Caspar Hauser's first appearance in Nuremberg, soon settled down into the form of a dark and horrid enigma, to explain which, various conjectures were resorted to. By no means an idiot or a madman, he was so mild, so obedient, and so good-natured, that no one could any longer regard this forlorn and forsaken stranger as a savage, or a child grown up among the wild beasts of the forest. yet, he was so destitute of words and conceptions, so unacquainted with the most common objects and operations of nature, and showed so great an indifference, nay, abhorrence, to all the ordinary customs, conveniences, and necessaries of life, and, moreover, evinced peculiarities so extraordinary in all the characteristicks of his mental, moral, physical, and social being, as seemed to leave no other choice than to regard him, either as an inhabitant of some other planet, miraculously transferred to the earth, or as one who (like the ideal man of Plato) had been born and bred under ground, and who, having arrived at the age of maturity, had now, for the first time, emerged from his subterranean abode, and ascended to the surface of the earth to behold the light of the sun. Caspar continued to show the greatest aversion to all kinds of food and drink, except dry bread and water. Without swallowing, or even tasting, them, the very smell of most kinds of common food, was sufficient to make him shudder, or even to affect him still more disagreeably. The least drop of wine, "Si-mål-tà' ně-ůs-lễ. As-sis'tânse-not, tunse. Ab-hor'rênse-not, runse. Eks-tror'dẻ-nâr-ẻ. eTrâns-fêrd'-not, furd. fèrth-not, urth. coffee, or the like, secretly mixed with the water which he drank, produced in him cold sweats, or caused him to be seized with vomiting or violent headache. A person once attempted to force upon him some brandy, under a pretence that it was water; but the glass had scarcely reached his lips, when he turned pale, sunk down, and would have fallen backward against a glass door, had he not been instantly supported. Even milk, whether boiled or fresh, he could not bear. At one time, some meat being concealed in his bread, he smelled it immediately, and expressed a great aversion to it; but being prevailed on to eat it, extreme illness followed as the consequence. During the night, which, with him, commenced regularly with the setting, and ended with the rising, of the sun, he lay upon his bed of straw; and in the day-time, he sat upon the floor, with his legs stretched out straight before him. When, for the first time, a lighted candle was placed before him, he was delighted with the shining flame, and unsuspectingly put his fingers into it; but he soon drew them back, crying out and weeping. In order to try their effect upon him, feigned cuts and thrusts with a naked sabre, were made at him; but he remained immovable, without even winking: nor did he seem to harbour the least suspicion that any harm could thus be done to him. On placing a lookingglass before him, he caught at his own reflected image, and then looked behind it in order to find the person whom he imagined was concealed there. Like a little child, he endeavoured to lay hold of every glittering object he saw; and when he could not reach it, or when forbidden to touch it, he wept. Of ordinary transactions which passed before his eyes, he took not the least notice; but when objects were brought very near him, he gazed at them with a vacant look, which, in many instances, was expressive of curiosity and astonishment. His whole vocabulary contained only two words. Whatever partook of the human form, he called, without any distinction of sex or age, bua; and to every animal he met with, whether quadruped or biped, whether dog, cat, goose, or fowl, he gave the name of ross; a term which, as was afterwards ascertained, in his dictionary, meant horse. With white horses, he appeared to be greatly pleased; but black animals were regarded by him with aversion and fear. The sight of a black hen advancing towards him, once put him in so great fear, that he cried out lustily; and, notwithstanding his feet refused to perform their office, he made every effort in his power to run away from her. Not only Caspar's mind, but, also, several of his senses, ap In'stant-le-not, stunt, peared, at first, to be in a state of torpour, from which they were aroused, and opened up to the perception of external objects, only by slow degrees. It was not before the lapse of several days, that he began to notice the striking of the town clock, and the ringing of bells. These sounds excited in him the most profound astonishment, which was, at first, expressed only by listening looks, and peculiar spasmodick motions of the muscles of his face; but these were soon succeeded by a stare of benumbed meditation. Some weeks after, a band of musick passed by the tower, close under his window. On hearing it, he suddenly stood listening, motionless as a statue. His countenance appeared to be transfigured, and his eyes, as it were, to radiate his ecstacy; his ears and eyes seemed to follow the movements of the sounds as they receded and died away in the distance; and, when they had long ceased to be audible to others, as if unwilling to lose the last vibrations of these, to him, celestial notes, or as if his soul had followed them, and left its body behind it in a state of torpid insensibility. Future developments clearly illustrated, however, that, by his extraordinary and almost superhuman acuteness of hearing, he actually heard, in this instance, the sounds, long after they had become inaudible to common ears. b Among the remarkable phenomena which appeared in Caspar's conduct, it was soon observed that the idea of horses, and, particularly, of wooden horses, was one which, in his estimation, must have acquired no small degree of importance. The word ross, he pronounced more frequently than any other, and on the most diverse occasions: sometimes, indeed, with tears in his eyes, and in a plaintive, beseeching tone. This suggested the idea of presenting him with the toy of a wooden horse. Caspar, who had hitherto been much dejected, appeared now to be, as it were, suddenly transformed, and conducted himself as if he had found, in this little horse, an old and long-desired friend. With a countenance smiling, and in tears, he immediately seated himself on the floor, by the side of his inanimate friend, stroked it, patted it, kept his eyes immovably fixed upon it, and endeavoured to hang upon it all the variegated, glittering trifles with which the benevolence of his visiters had supplied him; and it was only thus applied, that, in his estimation, these trinkets appeared to have acquired their true value. On account of his peculiar partiality for wooden horses, he was soon supplied with several, which henceforward became his constant companions Dis'tanse-not, dis'tunse. In'stânse-not, in'stunse. Im-por'tânse -not, tunse. Fré'kwent-le. Kòůn'tě-nânse. and playmates. With them he constantly employed himself, either in decorating them with trinkets, or in dragging them backwards and forwards by his side. He never ate his bread without first holding every morsel of it to the mouth of one of his horses; nor did he ever drink water without first dipping their mouths into it; for as yet, in his infantile soul, ideas of things animate and inanimate, organick and inorganick, natural and artificial, were strangely mingled together. He distinguished animals from man only by their form, and men from women only by their dress: and, on account of its varied and lively colours, the apparel of females was far more pleasing to him than that of males. He therefore expressed a desire to become a girl; or, in other words, to wear women's clothes. That children should become grown people, was altogether inconceivable to him. No idea of a God, no idea of a spiritual existence-not a spark of religion, not the least particle of any dogmatick system, was to be found in his mind; but, as yet, it was a perfect blank sheet, on which the first impressions were to be made. Although by no means an idiot, nor one that had been neglected by nature, yet, innumerable proofs were not wanting to show, that, with the age and physical powers and proportions of a man, he had the mind only of an infant—that, in some mysterious and inconceivable manner, he must have been deprived of all the ordinary means of giving development and culture' to his intellectual powers. His whole demeanour was a perfect mirror of child-like innocence. There was nothing deceitful in him. His expressions (as far as the poverty of his language would admit) exactly corresponded with the dictates of his heart. In a few days after his arrival at the tower, Caspar was no longer considered as a prisoner, but as a forsaken and neglected child, that needed to be cared for and educated. Accordingly, he was soon taught to speak and write, and to begin to lay in a stock of useful ideas adapted to his infantile conception; and when his mind had been once directed to more important occupations, he no longer took delight in his playthings. Curiosity soon brought multitudes to see him. Some, indeed, regarded him only as an object of wonder and amusement; yet others conversed with him rationally, and endeavoured, by pronouncing words which they made him repeat, and by signs, and ges tures, and various other means, to make unknown things known to him, and to awaken his mind to the conception and In'fant-not, in'funt. bKul'tshåre-not, cùl'tshår. In'no-sense. •Jês'tshures. communication of ideas. Every thing he saw or heard, was, at first, entirely new to him, and supplied him with new materials of thought, and tended to increase his slender stock of ideas. About a fortnight after the arrival of Caspar in Nuremberg, he was fortunately placed with professor Daumer, an accom. plished scholar, and an intelligent and humane man, who, in the kindly feelings of his heart, agreed to take upon himself the important task of instructing the unfortunate youth. To the extraordinary abilities of this benevolent gentleman, was Caspar, in no small degree, indebted for that rapid development of his active mind, that insatiable thirst for knowledge, that fervent zeal to lay hold of every thing that was new to him, and that vivid and wonderfully retentive memory, which, to the astonishment of all, he soon evinced. As soon as Caspar had acquired a sufficient knowledge of language to enable him, though but imperfectly, to communicate his ideas, means were employed to draw from him all he knew concerning his wonderful and mysterious fate. The following is the substance of his own account of himself, as given to the publick in July, 1828, it being all he could recollect of the history of his past life. "He knows not who he is, where he was born, nor where he has lived. It was only on his appearance in Nuremberg that he first came into the light of the world. Here he first learned, that, besides himself and the man with whom he had always been,' there existed other men and other creatures. As far back as he can recollect, he had lived in a hole, or narrow dungeon, where he had always sat upon the ground, with his feet bare, and very thinly clad. He had never, even in his sleep, lain down; but had always slept in an erect posture, with his back supported by the wall of his narrow cell. In his apartment, he had never heard a sound, whether produced by man, an animal, or the elements. He had never seen the heavens, nor the light of day; consequently, the distinction between night and day, was utterly unknown to him. ever he awoke from sleep, he had always found a loaf of bread and a pitcher of water by his side. Sometimes the water had a bad taste; (that is, opium was dissolved in it, as Caspar afterwards ascertained by being made acquainted with this drug ;) and whenever this was the case, he soon fell into a sound sleep, and on awaking again, found that he had clean clothes on, and •As-tôn’sh-ment Fort'nite-not, fort'nit. Fer'vent-not, vunt. not, munt. Sůb'stânge-not, sub'stunse. When |