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V. Tart of a Letter from Ri hard Waller, Efq- 
derjiand what is J aid to them by the Motion of the 
Lips. 
HERE live now, and have from their Birth in our 
Town, a Maa and his Sifter, each about 5.0 Years 
Old, neither of which have the leaft fenfe of Hearings 
they both five by their daily Labour, yet both thefe 
Perfons know by the motion of the Lips only, whatever 
is faid to them, and will anfwer pertinently to the Que- 
ftion propofed to them of any thing within their Capa- 
city, and are both very intelligent, as far as can be ex- 
pefted from their Education. 1 remember feveral Years 
lince, Mr. Colfott the Mathematical Matter, coming to fee 
me, this Man was then working in the Garden ; and 
Mr. (olfon and I ftanding clofe together, I took an op- 
portunity when the Fellow look’d on me, to ask him 
feme Queftion or other, which he readily underftood, 
and anfwer ’d according to it 3 tno Mr. Colfon that (food 
by me heard me fay nothing, the Fellow underftanding 
k only by the motion of the Mouth, fo that you need 
only Whifper.provided the Lips and Mouth be but moved 
as they ought, and you do not fpeak too faft. 1 many 
Years fince inquired of his Mother, who has been long 
hnce dead, as to their Deafnefs , and (he told me, they 
could Hear very well and Speak when they were Chil- 
dren, but both loft that Senfe afterwards, which makes 
them retain their Speech : Tho that, to Perfons not afed 
to 
