(979) 
Ic reftmbles the Ormsox Quicken Tree ; only the Ornuf 
bears the Flowers and Frttk at the erfdj This, on the fides of 
the Branch* Next the Sua, the Fruit hath a dark-red 
blufh : and is about the b'gnefsof a C\m'A Jurjeting Fear. 
In September^ fo rough, as to be ready to flrangle one. Bur 
being then gather'd, and kept till OMer^ they eat as well as 
any Medlar. Thus far the iMter^ 
Whether a Verjuyce made of this Fruic, either 
ground with Crabs, or Grapes, or if plentiful, alone, 
would not, being kept for foiDe time , prove one of the 
bcft acid-aftringent Sawces, ihac Nature affords^ 
A Relation of a. Child ttphich remained Twenty fix years in 
the ^JHothers Belly, Taken out of the Journal des Sca- 
vans; being the Extract of a Letter mitten from To- 
loufe 2 2* ]mtto the jiuthorof that Journal, by Monjieur 
Bayle, M.Z). 
^'^T^He faid Author premifes , that there having been 
JL many different Reports of this matter : Monfieur 
Bayle took the pains to give an exafl: account, as well of the 
Infanr,asof what accidents befell the Mother during her 
beingbig with It. Taking alfo the Figure of the Infant, as iti 
wasfeenof the whole Town. 
Margaret MatherVy Wife of John Fuget, Shearman, being 
with Child 1652, perceived about the end of the ninth 
Month of her bearing, fuch pains as Women ufually have^ 
when about to fall in Labour. Her Waters alfo brake: 
but no Child follovv'd^ For the fpace of Twenty years^ 
flie perceived this Child to ftir : with many troublefom 
Symptoms accompanying. Which made her from time to 
time, to defire the Chirurgeon to open her Belly , and cake 
out this grievous burthen. But for the fix lafl: years, fhe 
perceived not the Child to move. Being lately falTn fick, (he 
requefted the Chirurgion to open her when fhe was dead. 
She died 18. June this year 1678. She was opened the 
next day, and a dead Child was found in her Belly, out of 
the Womb, no way joyned or faftened to ic. The H°ad 
downward ; the Buttocks hanging toward the lefc fide ^ 
The Arms and Legs in the pofture the Figure reprefents, 
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