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printed above : and, in order to fupply in fome 
meafure the want of what Mr. Folkes’s extenfive 
reading and induftry might have furnifhed the 
public with, in relation to fo very remarkable a 
fadt, the following accounts, printed and manu- 
fcript, are fubjoined as a fupplement to the pre- 
ceding article. 
TLxtraB of a Letter of William Burnet, Efq ; F.R.S. 
eldefi Son of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, Lord Bifliop of 
Salifbury, to Dr. (afterwards Sir) Hans Sloane, 
dated at Leyden, May 9. 1708. N. S. * 
“SIR, 
tc T Send you inclofed the print of a -wonderful 
“ union of two twin lifters, who are at this 
<c time to be feen at the Hague. I faw them, and 
{C obferved all, that I could think tended to explain 
“ the appearance. They are Hungarians, as the 
“ lines under the print will ftiew you. There is 
tc there an exadt enough defcription of their condi- 
<c tion ; only I may add, that in fig. 1. the urinal 
“ paffage is between the two foremoft thighs, as 
<£ they are in the print. The fame is true of the 
“ anus in the 2d figure, in fuch manner, that the 
ct fituation of thefe parts is the fame to outward ap- 
“ pearance as naturally, with this difference, that 
lt they are between two different bodies here, where- 
<c as in the courfe of nature they are between the 
“ two parts of the fame body. It feems probable, 
* Original Letters to Sir Hans Sloane, Bart. vol. A— -B. in 
the Britifh Mufeum, 
S f 2 ~ cC that 
