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was commonly called by the Musselmans chokra sug sa, or the 

 dog-like boy. He walked on his hands and feet with his head 

 thrust forward, and was unable, without considerable pain, to 

 erect his body to an upright posture. The cause of his extraor- 

 dinary gait was, that the pelvis being much distorted, the femo- 

 ral bones were so placed in conjunction with it, as to cause his 

 legs to be at right angles to his body. His knee-joints being 

 stiff, and his legs being much shorter than usual, his body-is 

 quite horizontal, and he walks about with seeming ease to him- 

 self. He is about fifteen years of age. — Plate I. Fig. 2. 



III. There was also at Arcot a little mat-maker, the forma- 

 tion of whose hands and feet was very peculiar. They were 

 like the forceps of a crab, the skin covering three and two of 

 his fingers and toes, and causing them to resemble claws. He 

 plied his vocation with hands and feet, and produced as neat 

 work as his brother mat-makers. Plate I. Fig. 3. 



IV. I have frequently seen in India four legged chickens, 

 double-headed pups, &c. but these monsters sink into insignifi- 

 cance when compared with the one I am going to describe, 

 which is a quadruped, the produce of a sow, and littered at Kur- 

 noul not long ago. The mother brought forth a litter of pigs, 

 all of which were naturally formed, with the exception of the 

 monster in question, which came into the world alive, but sur- 

 vived only a short time after its birth ; and is now preserved in 

 spirits, and in the possession of Captain Wallace of the Staff of 

 the Madras Army. It exhibits the following extraordinary 

 appearances in its conformation. 



It is half a sow and half an elephant. In addition to the or- 

 dinary rostrum or snout of a hog, a prehensile proboscis pro- 

 jects from the bottom of the forehead ; the monster has likewise 

 got the pendulous ears peculiar to the elephant ; and the noa- 

 trils are seated at the extremity of the elephantine proboscis. 

 This non-descript is a Cyclops, for, upon raising the prehensile 

 trunk, a single and well formed eye is observed, the size of 

 which is considerable in proportion to the bulk of the monster ; 

 the lower eyelid is furnished with cilia ; the eye is concealed by 

 the trunk, and is not perceived until the proboscis is raised, 

 which forms as it were the upper eyelid. The length of the 



