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Croakjftg. The DefcripciQ.i the Mother and others gave 
me thereof was, That the Noife the Child made, was 
as if a Born-Infant had Cry’d eagerly, (hut up clofe in 
• a Tub- 
In the third Place, The Crying Teemed to be To eager 
and hearty, as to end in Sobbing, like what is obfervable 
oftentimes in Born Infants. 
In the fourth Place, It was heard not alone by the Fa- 
ther and Mother, or one or two befides, but by many, or 
moft of the Neighbourhood, both near and farther off, 
and many of them Perfons long uTed to Children 5 who 
do all with the greateft Aflurance affirm it to have been 
as manifeft Crying, as ever they heard from a Born-In- 
fant, and nothing like any Noife of Wind, or the Cuts: 
As on Enquiry they all particularly told me. 
And in the laft Place, The Midwife told me, that lay- 
ing her Hand on the left fide the Woman’s Belly, where 
the Child lay when it Cryed, (he could plainly feel a 
Moiion under her Hand, like that of I^efpiration, every 
Blaft of the Child’s Crying fenfibly touching upon her 
Band. 
Thefe Particulars being confiJered, do not only prove 
the reality of the Thing, but (liew the Cafe to be 
very conhderable. I have met with many Inftances 
of this Nature in divers Authors, but not one that 
was of fo long Continuance, and in which there 
were fuch frequent Reiterations of the Crying. Some 
of the bed: attefteJ Cafes I have met with, may de- 
ferve to be recounted here. And the Learned Per- 
zafeha of Bajil hath given us fo good a Catalogue 
of them in the third Obfervation of his Obferv. Me- 
die-- that I (hall go no farther for more. And paf- 
hng by the Cafes he mentions, attefted only by vul- 
gar illiterate Perfons, I (liall name only a few that 
feem to have more fenfible Perfons for their Evi- 
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