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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PER-PIG |
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PETER THE WILD BOY (fl. 17251785) , a Hanoverian imbecile of unknown parentage, who, having been found living wild in the woods near Hanover in 1725, was brought to England by order of George I., whose interest
satire
Arbuthnot ; Defoe also wrote on the subject, and Lord Monboddo in his Origin and Progress of Language presents the idiot Peter as an illustration
the human species. He lived to an advanced age, was seen by Lord Monboddo in 1782, and died in 1785.See Henry
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