fened him, while the crowds of people, running
in all directions, agitated and astonished him in a
manner he could not explain. He experienced a
sensation of suffocation on finding himself
enclosed, as it were, in streets of lofty houses;
he saw and admired nothing, being every moment in
dread of losing himself in the labyrinth of
streets, more difficult for him to recognize than
the scarcely marked pathways of his native forests.
He was not curious to see any thing, and felt only
the desire to fly at once, and again to breathe
freely, away from what he felt to be the restraints
of civilization. He was taken to the cathedral,
where he saw the pictures, the paintings on the
roof, and all the ornaments of the church--they
were explained to him, and he prayed before the
high altar and that of the Holy Virgin. He believed
all the instructions of the Church, and was
sufficiently informed to receive baptism. During
his visit to the church, the organ was played, and
an explanation was given him of its harmony. In the
midst of all these to him surprising novelties, he
was asked what was the predominant sensation in his
mind; he answered fear, and that his other feelings
he was unable to explain.

"This simple child of nature, the _naivete_ of
whose language, emotions, and habits so strongly
contrasted with the surrounding artificial
civilization, afforded a singular study to those
present. However humiliating to our self-love, the
conduct of this young man abundantly proved that
the civilization of which we are so proud, our
buildings, our wealth, our industry, all our
activity and noise, do not fill with the admiration
we expect those who are brought up far from our
opulent cities and our artificial manners. Nature,
in these immense solitudes, in these primitive
manners, has then charms unknown to us, to be
preferred to those which, in our existing state, we
find so incomparable. We must here close our
reflections, for fear of falling into paradoxes
difficult to be avoided in questions of this
nature.

"This young man has departed, without