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I will only tell you, that, in general, this ftone is 
very hard and heavy, and that the whole city of 
Naples is paved with it. I have feen fome of it, 
that will bear a fine polifli, and of which they make 
fnuff-boxes. 
XIX. A Letter to the Prefident, concerning 
the Hermaphrodite Jhewn in London : by 
James Parfons M. D. F. R . S . 
S I R } Red-lion fquare, March 14, 1750. 
ReadMarchi4. A S I find the Friench girl, now (hewn 
1750 /A at Ludgate as an hermaphrodite, 
makes fome noife in town, and as the generality of 
the world are apt in this very cafe to take the etv 
roneous fide of the queftion in giving their opinions 
about it, for want of having a proper knowlege of 
the parts, I have taken the liberty to trouble you 
with this letter, containing fome account of the mat- 
ter, which is intended to undeceive fucli as are mif- 
taken about it. 
She is now about eighteen years old, and the true 
defeription of her pudenda is as follows : 
What is miftaken for a penis and has at firft fight 
caufed the deception, is the clitoris , grown to an 
inordinate fize. The prepuce of this is continued 
down on each fide, to form the >n'inpha\ under 
thefe the natural urethra is in its proper place, as in 
all females; and juft under this is a natural vagina. 
This vagina is concealed by a fkin growing up from 
the perinoeum> and continued to the lab mm of each 
fide 
