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<c fide by fide. They loved one another very ten- 
“ derly. Their clothes were fine and neat. They 
“ had two bodies, four fleeves; and one petticoat 
“ ferved to the bodies, and their fhifts the fame. 
<£ When one went forward, the other was forced 
cc to go backward.” 
A later and more particular account is contained 
in p. 41, & J'eqq. of a book very feldom met with 
in this country, being printed at Vienna in 1729. 
intituled, Gerardi Cornelii Driefchii Hijioria magnet 
Legationis Ccefarece , quam Caroli VI. aufpiciis fufee- 
pit D ami anus Hugo Virmotidtius , &c. The follow- 
ing extract, tho’ long, will not probably be thought 
unentertaining. 
“ Sunt in comitatu Commaronienli in terris il- 
<£ luftriftimi Zichii (pagus Hungaris Szony dicitur) 
£C a parentibus colonis, quibus fua vita conftat, dum 
££ haec feribo, anno 1701. vii calendas Novembreis 
££ procreate in lucem duae filiae gemellae, pofiica 
“ parte, qua fpina dorfi definit, concreta;, fic ut al- 
<c tera alteram fequi, quo fe cunque vertat, cogatur : 
“ caetera haud deformes afpeftu, nifi concretio ilia 
<£ corporum prodigium efficeret. Binae fingulis ma- 
££ nus, totidem pedes, et capita, necnon corpora : 
<c fuus membris omnibus ufus *, rationis multo etiam, 
££ quod mirere, certior j ut, fi fedentes folum videris, 
<£ neque feiveris, hie monftri notare nihil valeas. 
t£ Majori natu, quas lucem citius afpexit tribus 
££ horis, Helen*, minori Judithae nomen eft. Hasc 
££ ante annos circiter tres ftupore apopledtico tadta 
£t linguae modicum ex eo ac bonae mentis officium 
<£ impeditum habuit, fimplicitatem quandam ingenii 
££ modo 
