There is nothing on record about this case, nor have I been able to obtain any information of his previous history. His mind is not in so defective or deranged a state, as strangers and superficial observers are, from appearances, apt to imagine. It is true, he seems stupid and churlish, always silent unless spoken to, and then he answers with abruptness and impatience, in a murmuring, grumbling, and almost unintelligible manner, putting his words oddly together, like a child, or one unused, or too lazy, to articulate, and not that his answers are absolutely irrational. [Picture: No. 3 page 118] He plays well at draughts and whist, but his doing so appears to depend more on old habits, {119a} than on the present exercise of his faculties; which, though, as already observed, they are not wholly lost, yet, from his torpor, age, and the natural obstinacy of his disposition, he is disinclined to exert himself out of his usual course: and though his constant habits of employment and amusement in the house, make up for him a considerable stock of felicity, and aid in procuring the degree of health and spirits he enjoys, and the degree of mind he still possesses; yet he is so extremely obstinate and tenacious of his own mode of procedure, that any attempts to oppose him, will arouse his temper into fits of angry passion. {119b} OBSERVATION III. There is nothing particular to observe here, unless it be the obvious remark, that from his age and confinement for such a number of years, among beings who, for the most part, have no commerce with right feelings and thoughts, it is wonderful that any thing like powers of mind should still remain; or that he should, excluded from the excitement and collision of the world, possess any inclination to exercise them; but this is most probably owing to the amusements and employments already stated; and for the sake of drawing attention to this fact, have I been induced to make any observation on this case. _No._ 4.—_Admitted_ 1787.