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III. ExtraSl of a Letter from the Rev. Dr. 
Doddridge to Henry Baker F. R. S. con- 
cerning a Wether giving Suck to a Lamb ; 
and of a monftrous Lamb. 
'Dear Sir y Northampton, July 2. 1748 . 
Read Oft. HE Occafion of my writing to you 
i/ 4 8 - how is to inform you of a re- 
markable Fad, which I have juft heard from a 
Member of the Church of which I am Paftor, and 
in whom I can intirely confide. He tells me, 
that he has in Upper Heyford Field , about four 
Miles from this Town, a Wether-Sheep which now 
fucklcs a Lamb. I know not by what Accident, the 
Lamb fometime iince ran after it, and fixed upon 
its Paps; drawing hard, Milk followed. The Lamb 
has fubfifted very well upon what it fucked from 
him, and at the late (hearing Time he himfelf prefted 
the Teats, and Milk came out in a confiderable 
Quantity. 
This reminds me of what Mr. Ray tells us from 
Boccone , that a Countryman in Umbria nourifhed 
his Child by his own Milk, and Florentinus and 
Malpighius are quoted on the fame Occafion. Bar- 
tholinus , in his Anatomy , p. 215. has fome remark- 
able Pafiages to this Purpofe : he quotes a Paftage 
in Ariftotle concerning a He-Goat in Lemnos , who 
had a great Quantity of Milk. 
I fhall add to this a fhort Account of a 
monftrous Lamb, which was weaned in a Field 
near Newport Tagnel about the Middle of 
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