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XIX. 
Before we quit this Part of our Subjed, it will not 
be unfeafonabLe to mention a Cafe here, which was 
in fome meafure, objeded to what I had laid down 
againft a Poflibility of Superfetation, when I read 
this Le&ure. 
A Gentlewoman in Charlestown in South Caro- 
lina , about the Year 1714* was brought to Bed of 
Twins, one immediately after the other, in the fame 
Labour. The one proved to be a Negro Child, and 
the other a white one ,* which very much furprifed 
thofe that attended about her. So flagrant a Tefti- 
mony of her Infidelity to her Husband, made her 
confefs before them, that a Negro Servant, imme- 
diately after her Husband had left her one Morning, 
came to her $ but fhe pleaded, as an Excufe, that he 
threatened to kill her, if fhe did not comply with 
his Defire 5 and that accordingly fhe was forced to 
admit him into Bed. 
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Now, in order to remove this Objedion, it mufl: 
be obferved, that what I have affetted is, that when 
the Fallopian Tubes are grown flaccid, and have 
loft their vermicular Flexures, and the Ovaria are 
driven to a greater Diflance from the Vagina by the 
Enlargement of the Uterus , that then they are out 
of the Reach of Impregnation. 
Whereas, in the Cafe before us, there could be 
no fuch Change brought about in the Uterus 5 for,, 
altho’ one Tube had received an impregnated Ovum 
by the Coit of the Husband* and convey’d it to the 
Uterus 
