position to exert the bodily
faculties, subsides, children show much restlessness and distaste for
their usual plays. The intervals between meals, appear long to them;
they ask a multitude of questions, and are continually looking forward
to some future good; if at this time any mental employment be
presented to them, they receive it with the utmost avidity, and pursue
it with assiduity; their minds appear to have acquired additional
powers from having remained inactive for a considerable time."

(January 1781.) Z----, (7 years old.) "What are bones made of? My
father says it has not been found out. If I should find it out, I
shall be wiser in that respect than my father."

(April 8th.) _Z----._ "What becomes of the blood when people die?"

_Father._ "It stays in the body."

_Z----._ "I thought it went out of the body; because you told me, that
what we eat was turned into blood, and that blood nourished the body
and kept it alive."

_Father._ "Yes, my dear; but blood must be in motion to keep the body
alive; the heart moves the blood through the arteries and veins, and
the blood comes back again to the heart. We don't know how this motion
is performed. What we eat, is not turned at once into blood; it is
dissolved by something in the stomach, and is turned into something
white like milk, which is called chyle; the chyle passes through
little pipes in the body, called lacteals, and into the veins and
arteries, and becomes blood. But I don't know how. I will show you the
inside of the body of a dead pig: a pig's inside is something like
that of a man."

_Z----_ (same age) when her father had given her an account of a large
stone that was thrown to a considerable distance from Mount Vesuvius
at the time of an eruption, she asked, how the air could keep a large
stone from falling, when it would not support her weight.

Z----, (same age) when she was reading the Roman history, was asked,
what she thought of the conduct of the wife of Asdrubal. Z---- said
she did not like her. She was asked why. The first reason Z---- gave
for not liking the lady, was, "that she spoke loud;" the next, "that
she was unkind to her husband, and killed her children."

We regret (though perhaps our readers may rejoice) that several years
elapsed in which these little notes of the remarks of children were
discontinued. In 1792 the following notes were begun by one of the
same family.

(March, '92.) Mr. ---- saw an Irish giant at Bristol,