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As more than four and twenty years are now part: 
fince this account was given, and the perfon therein 
mentioned is ftill alive, and was lately fhewn at Lon- 
don, by the name of the Porcupine-man, with a 
boy in the like condition, both which I faw, and 
examined ; fome firther knowledge of him may not, 
I hope, be thought undeferving the attention of this 
Royal Society. 
His name is Edward Lambert. He is now forty 
years of age ; a good-looking, well-fliaped man, of a 
florid countenance j and, when his body and hands 
are covered, feems nothing different "from other 
people. But except his head and face, the palms of 
his hands, and bottoms of his feet, his fkin is all 
over covered in the fame manner as in the year 1731, 
which therefore I fhall trouble you with no other 
defcription of, than what you will And in Mr. Ma- 
chin s account above-mentioned 5 only begging leave 
to obferve, that this covering feemed to me mofl: 
nearly to refemble an innumerable company of warts, 
of a dark-brown colour, and a cylindric figure, riflng 
to a like height, and growing as clofe as poflible to 
one another ; but fo Riff and elaftic, that, when the 
hand is drawn over them, they make a ruffing noife. 
When 1 faw this man, in the month of September 
laff, they were fhedding off in feveral places, and 
young ones, of a paler brown, fucceeding in their 
room, which, he told me, happens annually in fome of 
the autumn or winter months: and then he commonly 
is let blood, to prevent fome little ficknefs, which he 
elfe is fubjedf to whilfl they are falling off. At other 
times he is incommoded by them no otherwife, than 
by the fretting out his linen, which, he fays, they 
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