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" that their parts are diflind; but that the moil: 
“ remote labia of each are outwardly vifible, and 
** the two contiguous ones are within. There feems 
<c to be no cheat in the thing j and the fkin, where 
<c they are joined, is perfectly fmooth, without any 
“ fear. They are now about fix years old. They 
“ fpeak French and High German. They are very 
t£ full of a&ion, and talk one more than the other. 
cc When one hoops to take up any thing, the carries 
li the other quite from the ground ; and that one 
<c of them often does, being ftronger as well as more 
“ lively than the other. They have not their feeling 
tc common any where but in the place of their con- 
u jundlion. This is all I can fay about it. If you 
“ think it worth while, you will do me an honour 
u in giving the print, and the fubhance of this ac- 
count, to the Society j to which, tho* an unworthy 
f( member, I would be proud to be capable of any 
* c fervice.” 
This letter was read to the Royal Society on the 
3 2 th of May i7o8-f-; and the print mentioned in 
it produced ; which, being now become extremely 
difficult to be met with, is thought proper to be en- 
graved again, and inferted here. See Tab. XIII. 
Soon after the date of Mr. Burnet’s letter, the 
twin fillers were brought to England, and publicly 
ffiewn in London, as appears from the following MS. 
note in a copy of the print bound up by the writer 
with Fortunius Licetus de Monjlris J, edit. Am- 
+ Journal, vol. xi. p. 143. 
J In this treatife, L. 2. p. 80. is the following pafiage: In pago 
. 'Rcrbachio non procul Heydelberga , Parai etiam relaiu> gemini utri- 
ufque fexus obverfis tergoribus annexis orti funt. 
ftelod. 
