fatisfic my felf, md I hope the Readier here- 
pfi with the laying of a wife, learned an4 
honourable Knight , that there are many 
ftranger things in th^ vporldy thanare to he 
feen hetmtn London and Stance. 
Septmber the Sixth day, one Mr. John 
Hickjord the Son of Mr. Hick^ford a Linncn- 
Draper in Cheapfde^ having been (bmetime 
in t^c ovine? of Mii^,and now deternr^i- 
ned to return for England, (old and Hill''^ 
his ftock of Cattle arid Hoggs, one great 
Sow he fiad which lie made great account 
^f, but being very fat, and not fufpt^fting 
that (he was with pig, he caufed her to be 
^iird, and they found 25 pigs within her 
belly i verifying the old proverb, As fruitful 
as a whijtt Cow. And now we were told 
of a fow in Virginia that brought forth fix 
pigs^ theif fore-parts Lyons, their hinder- 
parts hogs. J have read that Pruxcls, 
Anno I5i$4- a foxp brought forth fix figs^ the 
firfi vphereof (far the hjl in generating is 
alivayes in bruit beajis thefirji brought forth ) 
had the head, facej arms and legs of a man^ 
hut the vphole trunck^ of th body from the 
nec^y ivqs of a fmne^ a fodomttical monfier is 
wore like the mother than the father in the or- 
gans of the vegetative foul • 
The Three and twentieth^ I left Black- , 
pointy and came to KicbmGnds Ifland afcjout 
three 
