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fame head , but fo inconfiderable, that it was hid under the 
wool. This head is ftill preferved by the Honorable the Lord 
Norrej/s^ and is now to be feen nailed up at Ricot on the North 
fide of the Hall. 
41. To which may be added a Toir of Mris. Dutches, of Nerp- 
ington ne^r Dorcbe/Ier, more ftrangely prolific, than the Sheep are 
ftrange in form, that whiPfl: a Calf^ before die was eleven months 
old produced another : which Animals carrying their burthen 
no Ids thzn nine months, we muft either admit that (lie took 
at about ten or eleven weeks old, or that the Cow her felf was 
at firft brought forth pregnant of another, as AriJIotle reports a 
fort of Af/ce commonly are in a certain place in Perfia, 5 Uep^rrMi 
Of Til') TOTTO) civ(t(^^cof/.evcoy efxSpvcov^ to, ^hicc ^ kjuovtoc (pcuVeTo/, i. e. that 
in female Mice differed, the female off-ffring was found pregnant with 
others'. The fame again is reported by Claudim /Elian of the 
very fame Animals, near the Caffian Sea And Ariftotle further 
acquaints us , that the Fidi Fhoxini have fpawn when they 
are vf^rv little, t ovres (po^7voi vjuri[j{ciiToc l^ycTi ate his vcry words ^, 
info much that adds, ut periti Pifcat ores cum ovi^ nafci 
affirment ^. 
42. We are informed alfo, that the fame fomtimes happens 
in more perfed Animals, by Joan. Bapifia Nierembergiws , who 
tells us of a certain mare in Spain that brought forth a mule, great 
of another \ And the learned and obferving Bartholin'^, yet 
further acquaints us, that in the Paridi of Vkflovia near Neoburg in 
Fionia, Joan the wife of Nocholas Piter, a Hofbandman of that 
Country, was delivered of 2i female fit II- born chM, pregnant with 
znothev female, duly placed in the womb about a fpan in length, 
with all its parts fo perfed, that the Grand-mother (who diffeded 
the pregnant infant^ believed it had been living. 
43 . But what yet comes nearer to the bufinefs, we are inform - 
td by David Spilinberger^, Phyfitian of Leutfchovia, that in the 
year i ^63. there was a Cow in Hungary that brought forth a Calf 
with a great belly, wherein there was found another Calf with 
all its limbs perfeft How thefe things ftiould come to pafs, 
the learned Bartholin gives us his conjefture, viz^, that in fuch pro- 
dudiions as thefe three laft. Nature at firft intended only twin^, 
t Wfi. Animal lib. 6. cap. ult- " ^ ^oim, lib. 17. cap. 17. Ht^. Anim. lib. 6. cap 15. " Rond. de 
Vifcib. fMviatil cap. 2.8. V In Hift. Nat. lib. 6 . cap. 2. ^ Htft. Anatom. Med- rar. Cent. 6. Hi[i- ult. 
Bpifi. Med Cent. 3. Ep. 28. » MifceUan. Curiofa Med. P.hyf. Oermania, An. i. obfirv. 36. 
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