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An Account of a very odd Monftrous Calf 
By the fame Noble perfbn was lately communicated to the 
Royal Society an Account of a very Odd Monfirous Birth , pro- 
duced at Limmington in Hampshire , where a Butcher , having 
caufed a Cow (which call: her Calf the year before ) to be co- 
vered th.it file might the fooncr be fatted, killed her when fat, 
and opening the Womb, which he found heavy to admiration, 
faw in it a Calf, which had begun to have hair, whofe hinder 
Leggs had no Joints, and whole Tongue was^Cerberus-Yike ^ tri- 
ple, to each fide of his Mouth one, and one in the midft; Be- 
tween theFore-leggs &the Hinder-leggs was a great Stone,on 
which the Calf ridrThe Sternum 3 ox that part of the Breaft, where 
the Ribs lye, was alfo per fed Stone, & the Stone, on which it rid, 
weighed twenty pounds and a half 5 the outfide of the Stone 
was ofGreenifh colour, but fome fmall parts being broken oft^ 
it appeared a perfect Freeftone. The Stone, according to the 
Letter of Mr. David Thomas , who lent this Account to Mr. Boyle^ 
is with Doftor Haughteyn of Sails bury , to whom he al'fo referreth 
for further Information. 
There was, not long fince,fent hither out of Germany from an 
inquilitive Phyfician, a Lift of feveral Minerals and Earths of that 
Country, and of Hungary , together with a Specimen of each of 
them/among which there was a kind of Lead-Ore. which is more 
confiderable then all the reft , becaufe of its fingular ufe for Ef 
fays upon the Coppell , feeing that there is not any other Mettal 
mixed with it.’Tis found in the Vpper-Talatinate^ at a place called 
Freyung , and there are two forts of it , whereof one is a kind 
of Cryftalline Stone,and almoft all good Lead 5 the other not fo 
rich, and more farinaceous. By the information, coming along 
with it, they are fetcht, not from under the ground, but, the 
Mines of that place having lain long neglefted, by reafon of the 
Wars of Germany and the increafe of Waters, the people, living 
Of a Peculiar 
thereof 
and the Vfe 
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