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ftelod. 1665. 4to. in the poffeflion of Thomas Wil- 
braham, M. D. F. R. S. “ Londini i^Junii 1708, 
tc has vidi gemellas (plus annis fex natas) quarum 
“ forma et vivacitas elegantior et vegetior quam 
tc pi 51 ura et defcriptio 
Another account of them by an eye-witnefs in 
London is in a manufcript volume among thofe of 
Sir Hans Sloane, Bart, in the Britifh Mufeum, in- 
tituled, A jhort Hiftory of human Prodigies and 
monflrous Births , of Dwarfs, Sleepers , Giants , Jlrong 
Men , Hermaphrodites , numerous Births , and extreme 
old Age , &c. The name of the writer was James 
Paris du Pieffis. In p. 39. under the Title Two 
Sijlers conjoined , he gives a drawing of them, and 
the following defcription : “ Thefe two monflrous 
tc girls were born at Szony in Hungary in the year 
<c 1701. They were born conjoined together at the 
<c fmall of the back. I afked the father and mother, 
tc if they could not be feparated one from the other ? 
<c but they anfwered, No ; becaufe the urinary and 
tl foecal veffels and paffages were fo united, as to have 
“ but one ifliie for the urine, and another for the ex- 
cc crements, betwixt both. They were brifk, merry, 
“ and well-bred: they could read, write, and ling very 
“ prettily: they could fpeak three different languages, 
<c as Hungarian or High Dutch, Low Dutch, and 
<c French, and were learning Englifh. They were 
tl very handfome, very well fhaped in all parts, and 
“ beautiful faces. Helen was born three hours be- 
tc fore her filter Judith. When one ftooped, die 
tc lifted the other from the ground, and carried the 
other upon her back ; neither could they walk 
“ fide 
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