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trunk, alone deserves that name ; though in this case the pulmonary arteiy 

 visibly constitutes the principal part of the inferior aorta. 



Concerning a IVet her giving Suck to a Lamb; and of a Monstrous Lamb. By 

 the Rev. Dr. Doddridge. * N° 480, p. 502. 



D. D. had this remarkable fact from a member of the church of which he was 

 pastor, and in whom he could entirely confide. The person told him that he 

 had in Upper Heyford field, about 4 miles fi-om Northampton, a wether sheep, 

 which then sucked a lamb. The lamb sometime before ran after it, and fixed 

 on its teats : drawing hard, milk followed. The lamb had subsisted very well on 

 what it sucked from him, and at the late shearing time he himself pressed the 

 teats, and milk came out in a considerable quantity. 



This reminded the Dr. of what Mr. Ray tells us from Boccone, that a country- 

 man in Umbria nourished his child by his own milk, and Florcntini and Mal- 

 pighi are quoted on the same occasion. Bartholin, in his Anatomy, p. 215, 

 has some remarkable passages to this purpose : he quotes a passage in Aristotle 

 concerning a he-goat in Lemnos, which had a great quantity of milk. 



Dr. D. adds a short account of a monstrous lamb, which was weaned in a field 

 near Newport Pagnel about the middle of March, and was brought to him soon 

 after it died. It had 2 perfect heads, and 2 long necks, each as large as that of 

 a common lamb, but sucked only with that on the right side. So far as he 

 could learn, the organs of both were compleat. It walked only on 4 legs, but 

 had a fifth hanging down between the 2 necks, rather longer than the other 4 ; 

 the bones and hoof were double, and had 4 claws : the concave side of it was 

 turned upwards, and whenever the creature walked, this leg moved up and down 

 as it seemed spontaneously, and in a manner answerable to the motion of the 

 other 4 : it had 2 tails, but no vent behind : it had also 2 distinct spines, but 

 they met about 5 inches above the tail, and then divided again ; but where they 

 met they were not as one entire spine, but as 2 adhering to each other. There 



• Dr. Philip Doddridge, an eminent English divine, was born at London in 1703. After com- 

 pleting his education at an academy at Kilworth in Leicestershire, kept by Mr. Jennings, he became 

 a minister in that town, and on the death of Mr. Jennings he succeeded him in the academy ; but 

 shortly after he accepted a call from the dissenting congregation at Northampton, where liis academy 

 soon became flourishing. Here Dr. D. laboured with great assiduity as a minister and instractor, 

 generally admired and esteemed, by men of every persuasion, for the extent of his learning, the 

 amiableness of his manners, and the piety of his disposition. His continued exertions however were 

 too much for his constitution, and soon destroyed his health ; for the recovery of which he repaired 

 to Lisbon, where he died in 1751, at 4.9 years of age. 



Dr. D.'s chief publications were, 1. The Family Expositor; being an exposition of the Kew Tes- 

 tament, in b' vols. 4to 2. The Rise and Progress of Religion iu the Soul, 8vo. 3. Various Ser- 

 mons and Tracts, which were collected in 3 vols. I2mo. 



