OF CORNWALL. 293 
Some inftances of the ftrength, and a&ivity of body among the sect. iii. 
Corni/h, Mr. Carew has given us (page 63), to which I refer; but Stren g th - 
one inftance of the ftrength of the human thorax I have met with, 
too remarkable to be paffed by in ftlence : Tuefday, March 22, 
1 75 7, between twelve at noon and one o’clock, John Chilew of 
the parifh of Ludgvan, carrier, aged forty-one years, walking by 
the ftde of his wain, by accident fell on his back in the way of 
the wheel, and before he could extricate him/elf, the wheel took 
on upon his left fhoulder, broke his collar-bone, and went off juft 
below his right arm-hole : the wheels were about three inches and 
a half wide, £hod with iron plates, and nails proportionably. The 
whole weight of the wain may be moderately computed at fix hun- 
dred pounds weight : in the wain were four blocks of tin of three 
hundred and ten pounds each, a calk of brandy two hundred and 
fifty pounds, fome bafkets with trifling weights reckon twenty 
pounds : the floor of the road on which he lay was level, fo that 
his breaft had the full preflu re of one half at leaft of two thou/and 
one hundred and ten pounds during the paffage of the wheel. On 
Friday, April 1, he was well enough to come on foot to church 
half a mile from his own houfe, complained only of his breaft being 
fore, which he attributed to the buttons of his coat being preffed 
inward by the run of the wheel : he has followed his calling ever fince 
in the fame manner as he did before, without any inconveniency. 
Nature is ftrong, and more perfectly compacted in fome fubjedts sect.iv. 
than in others ; but it is rare that fhe is at all defeffive in any : Defedive 
fome inftances however there are, in which the human frame is but 
half formed, and that distorted. “ On the flrft of June, A. D. 
1634, the wife of one Richard Lower, dwelling at Hunt’s-barne 
within the parifb of St. German’s, was in the night delivered of a 
double birth ; the one a perfect male child, the other Jfeemed to 
be of the fame form and /ex, wanting a head, but the neck thereof 
feemed to advance itfelf fomewhat above the fhoulders, on the left 
ftde whereof there grew a lock of hair of fomewhat lefs than an 
inch in length ; the upper part of the neck feemed raw and bloody, 
but overgrown with a perfect /kin : it likewife wanted the left arm 
(without any break of the /kin), and the thumb and little finger of 
the right hand ; the navel flood in the midft of the breaft, where 
all the bowels lay, yet the belly thereof perfect ; the feet had the 
heels turning forwards, and the toes backward, and the legs lying 
acrofs, of which the right had three, the left but two, and thofe 
conjoined together with a third ; nails likewife thereon that grew 
out of the flefti V’ 
k From a MS of the late learned John Anftis, Efq; Garter King at Arms, communicated by the 
Rev d . Dr. Milles, Praecentor of Exeter. 
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