Mr, Carlisle's Acccount, &c. 
95 
These extra fingers and extra toes are all completely formed, 
having each of them three perfect phalanges with the ordinary 
joints, and well shaped nails. 
Abiah Colburn, the father of Zerah, has five fingers and 
a thumb upon each hand, and six toes on each foot ; he has 
also five metacarpal bones in each hand, and six metat^arsal 
bones in each foot. The extra limbs have distinct flexor and 
extensor tendons. 
The wife of Abiah Colburn has no peculiarity in her limbs. 
During the existing marriage, she has borne eight children, 
six sons, and two daughters. Four of those sons inherit the 
peculiarity of their father more or less complete, while the 
two daughters are free from the family mark, as well as two 
of the sons, namely, the fourth in succession who was a twin, 
and the eighth. 
The eldest son of these parents, named Green Colburn, 
has only five toes on one of his feet, but the other foot, and 
both his hands possess the extra limb. 
The second child, Betsy Colburn, is naturally formed. 
The third, Zebina Colburn, has five fingers and a thumb 
upon each hand, and six toes upon each foot. 
The fourth and fifth were twin brothers, and named David 
and Jonathan; David, who is dead, had nothing of the father's 
mark, but, 
Jonathan has the peculiarity complete. 
The sixth, Zerah Colburn, the extraordinary calculating 
boy, is marked like his father, as before described. 
The seventh, Mary Colburn, is naturally formed. 
The eighth and last child, Enas Colburn, is also exempt 
from the father's peculiarity. 
