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conjeclure the caufed of it, nor have I ever heard of 
the like. 1 (hall be glad to know your Opinion, and 
ready to make fuch further Enquiries as you (hall pleafe' 
to fend, iff order to difcover the caufe of this dark 
and ftrange J?h£tj omen 0)7. 
■■■ The fecattd Rarity I am to impart is extraordinary,: 
but not wholly new, and folitary, as the firlf is, hav- - 
ing been obferved by fome the ia(t Centufy. It was 
communicated to me by a very Learned Divine of this 
Country, in thefe Words 5 ‘ I fend this to ac- 
‘ quaint you with a ffrange Occurrence obferved here 
^'la^L^Week: A Gentleman’s Servant having kill’d an 
^ Ewe, which was thought fat, and -taken out the 
‘ Bowels, found a very unufual and monftrous lump of 
‘ Fat, proceeding like a Wen from the middle of the 
‘ Omentum, I was call’d to fee this Wonder^ and having . 
^ cut it open, found inclofed a Lamb of the fame Parts, 
‘ Feature, and Dimenfions with' others of that kind. 
‘ How it came there > And how nourilhed ? are. Que- - 
‘ -ft ions I would have refolved.: 
I Toon apprehended what it w^as that feem’d fo very 
ftrange and unaccountable to ray Friend, having thirty 
Years fince been (hewn the like, found in a Bitch, by an 
expert and ingenious Surgeon in Oxford; and from that 
time obferved,' and confidered* all of that Nature which' 
have occured to me in Books, or other wife^ and fo was 
ready to tell that Learned, and curious Gentleman, that 
that Lamb was not conceived in the Womb, but in one 
of the Fallopian Tubes-^ wherein growing too big to be 
contained, it either broke out into the place where it was 
found, or fljpt back toward the upper Orifice, and tho- 
rough it into the Belly:- That afterward aftifted by the 
prone and inclining Pofture of the Sheep’s Body,- it flipc 
