(480) 
whether this Creature Was endow'd with a humane Soul 5 and 
if not, what became of the Soul of the Embryo, that was five 
months' old. ■ 
A little after, another Monfter was produced, which was an 
Infant come to maturity, having inftead of a Head and Brains, 
a Mafs of flefb like any Livery and was found to move. And 
this Foetus occasioned a Queftion for th e Cartefians ^ hbw the 
motion could be performed, and yet the GlanduU pinealis , or 
Conariumhe. wanting 5 nor any Nerves vifible, which come from 
the Brain ? The marrow in the Spine was of the fame fubftance. 
It liv'd four days, and then dyed : It was anotomized by M. 
Emmerez in prefence of the Aftembly. 
There came a Letter from Florence^ Written by M. Ste'no, 
which has alio fomewhat perplext the followers of Des Cartes. 
A Tortoife had its head cutoff, and yet was' found to move its 
foot three days after. Here was no Communication with the 
Conarinm: As this feems to have given a fore blow to the Carte- 
fan Dodrine, fo the Difcipies thereof are here endeavouring to 
heal the Wound. 
An Account of two Monftrous Births, not long fmce produced 
in Devonshire • c communicated by M* Coleprefle. 
1. One Robert a Joyner (whom I know) of Clamici 
in the Parifh of Beer-F erris in Devonfire , had on Lehr. 24.13(1', 
a Monftrous A^Ram-Lamb fallen with one Head, but two di- 
ftind Bodies, with eight Legs 5 which Bodies were joyned in 
the Neck : It had two Eyes, and as many Ears, in the ufual pla- 
ces 5 and one extraordinary Eye in theNiddock, with onefingle 
Ear, about an inch diftant from the Eye backwards : Its Dame, 
which tvas White , ufually brought forth two Lambs every year, 
as fhe did this year alfo which with the Ew 7 e remains 
alive. But whether this'Monfter was produc d dead or alive, is 
not known, it being found dead by the hedge, and foon after 
put into the Earth? There were ten White Ews accompanied 
with three White Rams. 
2. One John Cauce , Servant to Mr. William Knighton of Loci - 
ridge , likewife in Beer f erris ^ had among his Sheep , on the 
feventeenth of FebrM% a White Lamb fain on a Common in the 
faid Parifh , with two diftinft heads and Necks 3 Joyned at the 
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