his nails cut. He had never seen the face of the man who brought him his food and drink."

"In his hole, he had two wooden horses and several ribands. With these horses, when awake, he had always amused him. self, it being his only occupation, to make them run by his side, and to tie the ribands about them in different positions. He had never been sick; and, in only one instance, had he felt the sensation of pain. Upon the whole, he had been much happier there than in the world, where the effect of external objects upon his untutored senses, caused him much suffering. How long he had lived in this situation, he knew not; for he had no knowledge of time: nor did he know when or how he came there; nor had he any recollection of ever having been2 elsewhere. His keeper had never done him any harm but once; and then he gave him a severe blow with a piece of wood, because he had run his horses so hard as to make a noise."

"At length the man came, lifted him up, placed him on his feet, and endeavoured to teach him to stand. This ceremony he repeated several times; until, at last, he came and placed Caspar's hands over his shoulders, tied them fast, and then carried him on his back out of the prison. When he approached the fresh air, all became night;" that is, he fainted away.

Of Caspar's journey to the place where he was discovered by the citizen of Nuremberg, all he recollects, is, that, whilst performing it, "several times he ate bread and drank water; that 'the man with whom he had always been," repeatedly tried to teach him to walk, which attempts gave him great pain; and that the man never spoke to him, except to repeat the words, 'Reuta waehn,'" &c.

Caspar relates, that he never saw the face of the man, either on this journey, or in his prison; and that not long before he was discovered in Nuremberg, the man had put the clothes upon him which he then wore. He neither observed nor saw the objects around him; and therefore could not tell from what part of the country, in what direction, or by which way, he came. All he was conscious of, was, that the man who had been leading him, put the letter which he brought with him, into his hand, and then disappeared.

This history of the mysterious imprisonment and exposure of this ill-fated youth, presents, not only a fearful, but a most singular and obscure, enigma ;-an enigma which may, indeed, give rise to innumerable questions and conjectures, but upon which no light has, as yet, been shed that is likely to lead to its. Bin-not, bèên-nor, ben. bтHer'före. Rise. "Kôn-jèc'tshures.

solution. Caspar's mental condition during his dungeon life, must have been that of a human being, shut up in his infancy, with his senses and his intellect immersed in a profound sleep, in which pitiable condition he was compelled to drag out, at least, sixteen long years of the bloom and spring-tide of life, without being conscious of even a dream. From the stupour of this more than half non-existent state, he at length awoke to be stunned, and pained, and petrified, and amazed with the din, and clamour, and unintelligible impressions of a variegated world. This appearance of one of our fellow beings, who had attained the physical powers and proportions of manhood, without ever having learned the use of one of his senses, or without ever having one ray of knowledge enter his benighted and infantile soul, presents one of the most unique, and wonderful, and interesting, and instructive anomalies which the world has ever beheld, and may be justly regarded as a new page in the history of the human species.

What other crimes besides those of illegal imprisonment, privation, and exposure, may lie concealed behind the iniquity committed against Caspar, as well as the ends which his secret incarceration was intended to subserve, we must leave with the future to reveal.

SECTION X.

Caspar Hauser-Continued.

Or Caspar's extraordinary powers of memory, and his no less wonderful ability to direct his attention to one object at a time, singly and undividedly, (an ability to gain which, all the efforts of the greatest philosophers have hitherto proved unavailing,) the following is an instance given by the Hon. Von Feuerbach:

On entering Caspar's apartment' in the Luginsland, at the Vestner gate, accompanied by Col. Von D. and two ladies, he showed nothing like shyness or timidity, but met us with confidence, and seemed to be rejoiced at our visit. The first thing that attracted his attention, was the Colonel's bright uniform; and particularly his helmet, which glittered with gold, he could not cease to admire. After that, his attention was drawn to the coloured dresses of the ladies; but as for myself, being dressed

Ap-peer'ânse-not, unse. In'tèr-est-ing. Eks-tror'de 'nár-é. ¿Fé. lôs'ofürz. In'stanse-not, stunse. fA-pårt'ment. Kôn'fè 'dènse.

in a plain, black frock coat, I was, for some time, scarcely honoured with a single glance. Each of us, in turn, placed himself separately before him, and mentioned his name and title. Whenever any one was thus introduced, Caspar went up very close to him, regarded him with a sharp and somewhat staring look, noticed, successively and singly, every part of his face, as his forehead, his eyes, nose, mouth, chin, and so forth, with a penetrating, rapid glance; and, as I could distinctly perceive, at last, combined all the different portions of the countenance, which he had collected, piece by piece, into one whole. He then repeated the name of the person as it had been pronounced to him; and now he knew him; and, as after-experience proved, he knew him forever.

In noticing any one of the numerous things, whether small or great, which were2 in his possession, he was able to mention both the name and the title of the person who had bestowed it. About an hour after we had left him, we met him on the street; and, on demanding whether he could recollect our names, without the least hesitation, he repeated the full name of every one of the company, together with his title, which, nevertheless, must have appeared to him as an unintelligible jargon. On many occasions, still more striking examples of his quick and wonderfully tenacious memory were displayed. Caspar averted his eyes as much as possible from the light, their sensibility being such as not to bear it; for, it must be borne in mind, that in his dungeon, a ray of light had never visited them.

In regard to colours, he evinced a strange predilection for glaring red,—blue, green, and paler hues, being held by him at a comparatively low estimate. If the choice had been given him, he would have clothed himself, and all for whom he had a regard, in scarlet or purple. When a tree full of red apples was shown him, he expressed much satisfaction at the sight, but thought it would have been far more beautiful, had its leaves also been as red as its fruit. There was but one advantage more which, in his eye, his favourite animals, horses, might have possessed." It was that, instead of being black, bay, or white, their colour should invariably have been scarlet.

The curiosity and thirst for knowledge which he evinced, together with the inflexible perseverance with which he fixed his attention to any thing he was determined to learn or comprehend, surpassed every thing that can be conceived of them; and the manner in which they were expressed, was truly affecting. Having no longer any relish for his playthings, his hours,

Wêr. Poz-zest', Pêr-se-vě'rânse—not, runse

throughout the day, were employed in writing, drawing, and other instructive exercises with which professor Daumer engaged him. Bitterly did he complain to us, that the great number of visiters who thronged his apartment,* left him no time to learn any thing. It was very affecting to hear his often-repeated lamentation, that the people in the world knew so much, and that there were so very many things which he had not yet learned.

On account of the unpleasant and painful sensations which were produced by the many new impressions upon his faculties, to which he was totally unaccustomed-impressions which caused him excessive suffering, he appeared to be by no means satisfied with living in the world, but longed to go back again to "the man with whom he had always been,” and regain the rest and quietude he had enjoyed "at home in his hole."

Notwithstanding Caspar yielded, to those who had acquired parental authority over him, unreserved and unconditional obedience, yet, before he would acknowledge any thing to be certain or true, it was necessary that he should be thoroughly convinced, either by the testimony of his senses, by intuition, or by some process of reasoning completely adapted to his powers of comprehension and the scanty acquirements of his almost vacant mind—an instructive lesson to such as are apt to take things for granted without a proper examination of the evidence upon which their truth or falsity rests. Whenever it was impossible to reach his understanding through any of these channels, he would not, indeed, contradict the assertion made, but leave the matter undecided, until, as he would remark, he had learned more.

When the first snow fell in the succeeding winter, on looking out in the morning, he expressed great joy that the streets, the roofs, and the trees, had been so well painted, and went quickly down into the yard to fetch some of the white paint; but he soon ran back to his preceptor, with all his fingers stretched out, crying, blubbering, and bawling out," that the white paint had bitten his hand."

On my requesting Caspar to look out at the window upon an extensive prospect of a beautiful landscape,' which presented itself in all the glory of summer, he obeyed, but instantly drew back with horrour, exclaiming "ugly! ugly!" This singular and disagreeable effect produced upon his vision, he explained to me in 1831, by remarking, that the landscape' upon which

"A-pårt'ment—not, munt. Un-plêz'ânt-not, unt. Ak-kwire'mènts -not, munts. år. Ev'è 'dênse-not, dunse. Lând'skåpe.

he looked, then appeared to him like a window-shutter, placed close to his eyes, upon which a wall painter had spattered the contents of his different brushes, filled with white, blue, yellow, and red paint, all mingled together; for at that time he had not learned, by experience, to distinguish single objects from each other, nor their various distances and magnitudes; but the disagreeable, parti-coloured shutter appeared to come close up before him in such a manner as to prevent his looking out into the open air. He also remarked, that, for some time, he could not distinguish by the eye alone, those objects which were really round, square, or triangular, from the representation of such objects in a painting. Men, horses, and other animals repreIsented in pictures, appeared to him, as it regarded their roundness or flatness, precisely like the same, carved in wood. Their real difference, however, by the assistance of the sense of feeling, he soon learned, whilst engaged in packing and unpacking his toys and trinkets. In short, all the phenomena of sight displayed by the young man who was couched by Dr. Cheselden, and, indeed, many more, or, in other words, all the wonderful phenomena which could be revealed by an infant, supposing it could be enabled to explain them, whilst learning to apply the organ of vision, were illustrated in Caspar.

On the 18th of July, Caspar was released from his abode in the tower, and took up his residence in the family of professor Daumer. With this worthy gentleman, he soon learned to sleep in a bed, and, by degrees, to partake of common food. The former caused him, for the first time, to have dreams, which, until otherwise instructed, he looked upon as real transactions.

The following observations concerning this wonderful youth, are taken from the notes of Mr. Daumer. After he had learned to eat meat, his mental vigour was abated; his eyes lost their brilliancy; his unconquerable propensity to constant activity, was diminished; the intense application of his mind gave way to absence and indifference; and the quickness of his apprehension was also lessened. His change of diet, had, likewise, so great an effect upon his growth, that, in a few weeks, he increased more than two inches in height.

By being occasionally employed in easy garden-work, Caspar became daily more and more acquainted with the productions, phenomena, and powers of nature, which, whilst it tended greatly to increase his stock of knowledge, constantly excited in him

Pik'tshårz-not, pik'tshårz. Rêz'è 'dènse—not, dunse. -not, mun. Kôn'stant-not, stunt.

Jên'tl'mân