of it. This drew forth Rousseau, who was interested in botany,

front and they conversed together, and afterwards corresponded during several years. 1 find a letter written in February, 1767 on a singular subject. A gentleman had consulted him about the body of an infant which had was believed to be the illegitimate child of a lady, and to have been murdered by its mother. He kept a copy of this letter, without any address. Omitting all medical details it runs as follows: am sorry you should think it necessary to make any excuse for a Letter I The Women that have committed this most unnatural crime, are real objects of our greatest I Pity; their education has produced in them so much Modesty. or sense of Shame, that this anificial Panion ovenums the very instincts of Nature! - what Struggles must there be in their minds, what agonie- at a Time en, after the Pains of Parturition, Nature has designed them the sweet