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Tame head , but fo inconfiderable, that it was hid under the 

 Wool. This head is ft 111 preferved by the Honorable the Lord 

 Notreys, and is now to be {hen nailed up at Ricot on the North 

 fide of the Hall. 



41. To which may be added zCowof Mris. Dunches, of New- 

 ington near Dorchefler, more ftrangely prolific, than the Sheep are 

 ftrange in form, that whirft a Calf, before Che was eleven months 

 old produced another : which Animals carrying their burthen 

 no lefs than nine months, we muft either admit that (lie took Bull 

 at about ten or eleven weeks old, or that the Cow her felf was 

 at firft brought forth pregnant of another, as Ariftoth reports a 

 fort of Mice commonly are in a certain place in Perfia, -f jj Uepcnmt 



Of tip* toxci) dvoce^afjifvuv efJL@f>vuv } rd Siihta, wf wvovrat, (pcuVera/, 1. e. that 



in female Mice differed, the female of-/pring wot found pregnant with 

 others x . The fame again is reported by Claudius /Elian of the 

 very fame Animals, near the Cafpian Sea u . And Ariftotle further 

 acquaints us , that the Fitli Phoxini have fpawn when they 

 are very little, \kiy.^\ Ivth <po%7voi kwh'/^to. <n are his very words w , 

 info much that Rondelet adds, ut periti Pifcat ores cum ovk nafci 

 afirment x . 



42. We are informed alfo, that the fame fomtimes happens 

 in more perfect Animals, by Joan. Baptijla Nierembergius , who 

 tells us of a certain mare in Spain that brought forth a mule, great 

 of another y . And the learned and obferving Bartholin z , yet 

 further acquaints us, that in the Parifh ofVle/lovia near Neoburg in 

 F'wnia, Joan the wife of Nocholas Piter, a Hufbandman of that 

 Country, wasdeliver'd of * female ftill-born child, pregnant with 

 another female, duly placed in the womb about a fpan in length, 

 with all its parts fo perfect, that the Grand-mother (who diffected 

 thepregnant infant') believed it had been living. 



43. But what yet comes nearer to the bufinefs, we are inform- 

 ed by David Spilinbergerus, Phyfitian of Leutfchovia, that in the 

 year 1 663. there was a Cow in Hungary that brought forth a Calf 

 with a great belly, wherein there was found another Calf "with 

 all its limbs perfect a . How thefe things fhould come to pafs, 

 the learned Bartholin gives us his conjecture, vi%. that in fuch/w- 

 duclions as thefe three laft, Nature at firft intended only twins, 



t Hifl. Animal, lib- 6. cap. ult- fo< *>', lib.ij.cap. 17. ," Hifi-Anim. lib. 6. cap 13. Rovd.de 

 Tifcib. fluviatil. cap. 28. 1 In Hift. Nat. lib. 6. cap. 2. * Hifl. Anatom. & Med- rar. Cent. 6. Hifl- ult. & 

 Epifl. Med Cent- 3. Ep. 2I. MifceUan. Curiofa Med. PJbyf. Germani*, Ait. \. obferv. 36- 



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