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enough, a pretty good Face, fair Complexion, with 
light-brown Hair, of a weakly Conftitution, lame on 
one Side, through Weaknefs after a Fever and the 
Small-pox, which fhe had laft Summer. She feems 
a well-behaved Girl, and has nothing of a Country 
Mien. She difeourfes agreeably, very fluently and 
pertinently, has every thing clean and neat about her, 
gets her Livelihood by making Mantuas, and has an 
Aunt in London , named Mary Cutting , who isHoufe- 
keeper to the Dowager Lady Rockford in Bond- 
ftreet. 
He fays, if fhe were among Twenty People in a 
Room, he thinks it would be impoflible for a Stranger 
by any means to guefs her being the Perfon without 
a Tongue, for fhe has no odd Motion of her Mouth 
or Lips in Speaking : She flngs with an cafy Air, and 
modulates her Voice prettily. He asked her, if 
fhe did not mifs her Tongue, or find any Inconve- 
nience from the W ant of it ? She anfwcred, No : Not 
in the leaft ; nor could fhe imagine what Advantage 
he had in the Ufe of his. He inquired, how fhe did 
to guide her Food in her Mouth to eat: She replied, 
very eafily,fhe could eat before, on one Side or the other 
as file pleafed, but could not explain the Manner 
how. He was very obferving to fee her eat, but 
could difeern no Difference from others in the moving 
of her Jaws, or other Motions of her Face, nor in her 
fwallowing Food, or in drinking ; file did both very 
neatly, and had exadlly the fame Motion in her 
Throat as we have in itspafllng down. 
He was apprehenfive the Excrcfcence mentioned in 
the Certificate, might, in fome mcafure, fupply the 
Ui'e of a Tongue ; but fhe affured him, it never 
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