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An Account of a very odd Mon^rous Calf. 
By the (anxe Noble pcrfon was lately communicated to the 
Royal Society an Account of a very Odd Monftrous Birth , pro- 
duced at Ltmmifjgton 'm H^^/y^/7/>^ , where a Butcher ^ having 
caufed a Cow (which cafi: her Calf the year before ) to be co- 
vered, that fhe might the fooner be fatted, killed her when fat, 
and opening the Womb^ which he found heavy to admiration, 
faw in it a Calfj which had begun to have hair , whofe hinder 
Leggs had no Joints, and whofe Tongue was, Cer/>er///-like , tri- 
ple, to each fide of his Mouth one , and one in the midft ; Be- 
tween theFore-lcggs 8c the Hinder-lcggs was a great Stonc,on 
which the Calf rid:The Sternum fix that part of the Breaft, where 
the Ribs lyc^was alfoperfed: Stones & the Stone^on which it rid, 
weighed twenty pounds and a halt'', the outfide of the Stone 
was of Greeniih colour, but fome fmall parts being broken off^ 
it appeared a perfeft Freeftonc. The Stone , according to the 
Letter of Mr. David Thomas^ who fent this Account to Mr. Boyle^ 
is with Doftor Havghteyn oi sdkhttry^ to whom he alfo referreth 
for further Information. 
Of a Peculiar Lead-Ore of Germany^ and the V ft 
thereof. 
There was, not long fince/ent hither out of Germany from an 
inquifitive Phyfician, a Lift of fevcral Minerals and Earths of that 
Country, and of Hungary , together with Specimen of each of 
them.-among which there was a Ymdi o{ Lead-Ore. which is more 
confiderable then all the reft , becaufe of its fingolar ufe for 
y^^/ upon the Coppell^ feeing that there is not any other Mettal 
mixed with it.Tis found luthtVpper'Palatinatc^atz^lacccMed 
Freyung^ and there are two Ibrts of it , whereof one is a kind 
of Cryfklline Stone,and almoft all good Lead 5 the other not fo 
rich, and more farinaceous. By the information, coming along 
with it, they are fetcht, not from under the ground, but, the 
Mines of that place having lain long neglefted,by reafon of the 
Wars o{ Germany and the increafc of Waters, the people, living 
there- 
