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white colour, somewhat shaded with an Isabella or faint yellowish stripes, the 

 length of the worm; they had 14 feet, after the manner of many caterpillars, 

 and I was almost confident would have produced some sort of moth. I took 

 up about a score of them, and put them into a box, but they immediately of- 

 fended me with an ungrateful and strong stink, which yet is not usual to the 

 caterpillar kind. However I kept them 2 days, but by reason of some appre- 

 hensions and fear the ladies had of them, where I then was, and on their in- 

 treaties I rid myself of them ; I only observed, that the excrements which they 

 voided, were little hard pellets of pure white flour, like that of barley. These 

 and other things might be arguments of the power hot weather has in the hasty 

 quickening the births of insects, as well as producing them ; but I conceive it 

 less useful to philosophy to dispute them, than to deliver faithfully matters of 

 fact. 



A Letter written to Mr. H. 0. concerning some very aged Persons in the North 

 of England. By Dr. M. L. N° l6o, p. 597. 



This is a short notice of the names and ages of several very old persons, either 

 living or lately deceased, chiefly in the counties of York and Lincoln. They 

 are as follow : 



Robert Montgomery, residing in Skipton, aged 126 years. 



Mary Allison, of Thorlby, died 1668, aged 108. 



J. Sagar, of Burnley, died 1668, aged 1 12. 



Thomas Wiggen, of Carlton, died 1670, aged 108. 



Frances Woodworth, of Carlton, died 1662, aged 102. 



Two men (their names omitted), father and son, then living, the one 100, 

 and the other 140 years of age. 



Account of a Monstrous Child. By M. Chr. Krate. N° I60, p. SQQ. 



Feb. 29, 1 684, at a village called Heisaggar, near Hattersleben, in South- 

 Jutland, a soldier's wife was delivered of this monstrous child, fig. 2, pi. 2. It 

 is supposed she had seen some wounded or disfigured body in the same manner, 

 as this child appeared. At the left leg, 1, was to be seen an oblong round 

 piece of flesh, of a brown and blue colour, somewhat sharpened at the extremi- 

 ties, which was joined to the calf of the leg, 2, and could be moved from 1 to 

 3 ; the other piece of flesh 4, was of the same colour, but fastened to the leg, 

 so that it could not be displaced. On the right foot it had 6 toes; 7 was like 

 a pistol bullet, which hung loosely to the leg; 8 another bullet somewhat larger. 

 The face looked pretty old, as if it had been of 35 or 40 years of age : 3 and 6 



