C 361 ] 
The Portraiture of an uncommon Child , born January 
1752, of the Wife of Richard Tong, o/'Hebus 
near Middleton, y Miles from Manchefter in the 
County of Lancafter. 
The child, or children, if they may be fo called, 
are both females. The one is a perfect healthy- 
looked fine girl. The imperfect one adheres to the 
peifecft one by the cartilago enfformis , by a carti- 
laginous fubftance 4 inches in circumference. The 
body feems to be of a foft flefhy fubftance of very 
little regularity : it has no head, nor neck, nor any 
refpiration : out of the upper parts of its body come 
out two fhort arms. On the right, which is the 
longer, are 4 fingers, but no thumb on the left, 
which is very fhort, its hand is very deficient, and 
upon it only two fingers. The thighs, legs, and feet, 
are the moft perfect, tho’ the legs have only one 
bone in them. It has no vertebras of the back or 
Z % loins 
