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Part of a Letter to Vr Sloane, tpherein is an 
account of a Double Pear. 
THe Errors of Nature defervedly claim a place in 
her Hiftory, being of great ufe to illuftrate her 
Ordinary and more Regular Motions. 
I ivill take the liberty of prefenting you (under this 
ftile ) with an account of a Phenomenon in Botanies, I 
met with the laft Autumn* It was a Double Pear : one 
part growing over, and being fixtinthe other, not un- 
like an Acorn in its Cup. I at firft queftion'd, whether 
this might not be artificial, but a little examination dif- 
cover'd it to be the Work of Nature, tho very unlike 
her common Produftions. That which was moft fur- 
prizing was, that from the edges of the lower Pear 
there grew up five Leaves of various Magnitude, at di- 
ftances almoft equal from each other. The largeft of 
them was one inch long, half an inch broad, as large 
again as the rmalleft Leaf. Thefe Leaves grew out of 
the Skin of the lower Pear, and had no Fibres rifing 
from the carneous part of it. One of the Leaves (the 
largeft of them) had a Fibre of the bignefs of a fmall 
hair, continued from the place where the Leaf rife, 
down, juft within the skin, and loofe from it to the 
Pednnculus, The outer Coat of the Pedunculuf was 
continued to the Skin of the lower Pear, and this Skin 
to that of the upper Pear. The inner Fibres of the Pe- 
dunculHs go thro the lower up iato the upper Pear,and 
difperfe themfelves in it The upper part was twice as 
big as the lower, and had fevcral Kernels in it 5 but the 
lower none at all. ' 
VIL Hi' 
