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when ereft * the Hair on the Pubis an Inch long 
and thick. The Report of him has brought People 
far and near to fee him. 
Tour obedient humble Servant, 
Edmund Almond. 
2. A Letter from Mr.. Tho. Dawkes, Surgeon 
at Huntington, to Dr. Mead, F. R. S. 
Med. Reg. concerning the fame Child. 
Learned Sir , 
Read Jan. io. A Prodigy of Nature, hereunder exactly 
*744-5- JC\. defcribed, has, for fome Months part, 
engag'd the Attention of the Curious in this Neighr- 
bourhood ; and feems to demand that of that Learned 
and Honourable Society , of which you are a Mem- 
ber of the fir ft Rank : And as fuch, tho' a Stranger 
to you in Perfon, yet I prefume the following 
Accounts will not be altogether unacceptable to 
you. 
At the Inftance of the Midwife concerned at the 
Time of Labour, I went to a Village called Willing- 
ham alias Wivelingham , about Six Miles North of 
Cambridge , to fee a Boy, then (the latter End of 
Auguft laft) juft Two Years and Ten Months old; 
of whom I took, with the utmoft Accuracy, the fol- 
lowing Dinxnfions ; viz. 
His 
