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Thefe Twins were exaftly like one another 5 very well 
featured, having alfo pretty neat and handfome Limbs. They 
hadtheir hair more than ordinarily thick, and about half an 
Inch longhand the nails full grown. 
Wemight have proceeded to further Obfervations, but 
time and the tumultuous concourfe of peoplejas alfo the night, 
and likewife the Fathers importunity to haften the Birth to the 
Crave^hindred us. 
The Mother is at this time in as good a Condition of 
Health,as Women in Child bed ufe to be» 
Ohfervathns on InfeSs^ Jodgiftg themfelves in Old Willows^ 
Produced before the Royal Society hj Dr. Edmund King, 
Juljf 14. ^670^ 
YOu may remember, that about the beginning of May 
laft^a piece of old Willow- wood,being fent me from 
Sir ^ohn Bernhard out oi 'NorthamptonJhire^ was producec be- 
fore you 5 in which were lodged many Infefts curioufly wrapt 
up in green Leaves^in fe veral channels or burrows, each with 
12, 14. or 1 6. leaves round the Body, and (everal of them 
with as many little round bites of leaves at each end, to ftop 
themup clofe^ Thefe^ thus made up^are near an Inch Jong 
or the beft part of an inch,put in one after another into a bore 
made in the wood, fit for their reception* They are in the 
manner of Cartrages of Powder, wherewith Piftols are wont 
to be ChargedjOr like long (lugs of lead^asare (ometimes uftd 
in (bme parts of thole burrows 5 they are placed fo near one 
another as to touch 3 in others5at fome confiderable diftance. 
Thefe Infefts obferve this method in placing themfelves, that 
fometimes they make a dirtft way into the length of the 
wood, fometimes they bore out into the fidej and run ano- 
ther way, thofe Channels being not unlike the burrows of 
Rabbets 5 all which they fill up with thefe roui^d appearances 
of wrapt leaves, all regularly wrought; In which I find ei* 
ther fomething alive, or appearances of fbmething that hath 
dyed ihere,and is putrificd In fome a great number of Mites, 
of 
