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If we go back to earlier Times, the Emperor 
Juftin , in Cod. Tit. de Off. Praf. Prret. Af. lays, he 
had feen venerable Men, qui ah faffs radicitus Lingais , 
pcenas miferabiliter loquebantur, whofe Tongues having 
been cut out by the Roots, they mfferably spoke, or 
complained, of the Punijhments\\\zy had fuffered. And 
again, Nonnullos alios , qttibus Honorichius Vanda - 
lorum Rex Linguas radicitus praciderat , loquelam 
tamen habuifie integram, that fome others, whofe 
Tongues Honorichius , King of the Vandals , had cut 
out by the Roots, yet perfectly retained their Speech. 
XII. A remarkable Conformation , or Lufus 
Naturae, in a Child $ by C. Warwick, Sur- 
geon , in Truro, Cornwall. 
"Read July i» A BOUT April 1 74 1 . one Sarah 
I?4i * Allen, , of the Parifh of Aa Blazy, 
near Truro , having been married near Pour Years, and 
Mother of Two Children, well-formed and living, 
was brought to-bed of my prefent Subjeft, but of fo 
remarkable and preternatural a Conftitution, as muft 
render its whole Life inevitably miferablc, the Par- 
ticulars whereof, from my repeated Obfervations, are 
as follows : 
The Umbilicus is nearly in its natural Site, but 
fomevvhat large and prominent, having more the 
Appearance of a Tumour, than the ordinary irregular 
Shape of that Organ. 
Immediately below this Umbilicus , is a large fun- 
gous Excrefcence, nearly the Size of a fmall Egg, but 
fome what 
