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the events of his own life, as from the classical 

 character of the style, and the interesting nature 

 of many of the remarks, and of the matter con- 

 tained in it. 



It is remarkable that a short passage from this 

 same life of Mr. Wharton, not given by Dr. 

 Birch in the following extracts, is preserved in 

 a v^ork v^here a quotation from it v^ould least 

 be expected. In the Philosophical Transac- 

 tions for 1748, (p. 232.) is a short paper, com- 

 municated by a medical person. Dr. Mortimer, 

 in which he states that, '' in a MS. account of 

 the life of the Rev. H. Wharton, chaplain to 

 Archbishop Bancroft, w^ritten by himself," he 

 found the following passage, describing his 

 having been born with two tongues. He mani- 

 festly quotes it as a curious fact in natural history. 



" Mihi quidem ex utero materno exeunti 

 duplex erat lingua, utraque ejusdem figurae ac 

 magnitudinis ; inferiorem exscindendam esse 

 clamarunt mulieres obstetrices ; verum id no- 

 luit mater puerpera. Pietati ejus obsecundavit 

 fortuna. Lingua enim inferior paulatim emar- 

 cuit, et in exiguam pisoque hand majorem lin- 

 gulam, quee hodienum manet, contracta est. 

 Lingua interim superior ad justam crevit mag- 

 nitudinem, quamplurimis longis profundisque 

 sulcis distincta, an vulneribus laniata, dicam : 

 quae parallelo situ posita una cum lingua cre- 

 verunt, neque unquam coitura esse videntur." 



