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and that by fome error in her procedure, one, of each of thefe, 

 might be thruft into the belly of the other (as I fuppofe it hap- 

 pened in fome meafure in the cafe of Lazarus Colloredo and his 

 Brother Baptiji b ) over which we may eafily allow a fkin to be fu- 

 perinduced. But that ever any fuch fecond/>/&$ was brought 

 into the world, living after the firft, we have noinftance, except 

 this calf of Newington may pafs for one, which is wholly left to 

 the readers judgment. For my part, I am rather inclined to 

 believe that the Cow might take Bull at ten or eleven weeks old, 

 that being the lefTer wonder of the two, efpecially having lately 

 received news out of the Country from an intelligent Lady, that 

 the thing is not fo ftrange, but poflible enough. 



44. Hither alfo muft be referr'd the three calves brought forth 

 by a cow at one time, that I met with at Hardwick. not far from 

 Biffher, which though a production not frequent, yet is as much 

 remarkable in that they became all grown cattle, and fo ftrangely 

 alike, that their very owner himfelf fcarce knew them afunder, 

 much lefs could I, though I obferved them ftri&ly : whence I was 

 firmly convinced, that fimilitude was a concomitant as well of 

 Tergemini as Twins, and held as well in Brutes as rational Ani- 

 mals. 



45 . Nor can I pafs by without admiration, the Deer of Corn- 

 bury Park, which before His Majeslies wonderful reftoration, be- 

 ing (in partatleaft) turned into a Cony-warren, the Deer upon ic 

 had all dwarf heads, the mod of them irregular, as in Tab. 10. 

 Fig. 13. but if any of them were uniform, as in Tab. 10. Fig. 

 1 4. yet they were ftill far fhort of growth, feldom exceeding 8 or 

 10 inches long, though the Deer themfelves were well enough 

 grown, and warrantable ; the two that bore thofe engraven beads, 

 being both of them two years a Buck atleaft, and in all other re- 

 fpe&s well enough liking: which yet as foon as the Warren was 

 deftroyed by the prefent Proprietor, the Right Honorable the Earl 

 of Clarendon came again, to have as fair branched-heads as any 

 Deer whatever in the adjoyningForreft : Which Grange alterations 

 I cannot guefs to proceed from any other caufe than the infelion 

 of the grafs by the urin and crotizing of the Conies, which being 

 hotanddry muft rc:ds abate the moifture of the Deer, which 

 fupplyed matter for the fair heads wherewith before and fince 



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