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XIV. An Account of a Monfter of the human Species , in two 
Letters ; one Jr om Baron Reichel to Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart . 
and the other from Mr. James Anderfon to Baron Reichel. 
Communicated by Sir Jofeph Banks, Bart. P . R , S. 
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Read April 30, 1789. 
to sir Joseph Banks, bart.. 
$ I R 5 Fort St. George, Feb. 28, 1788. 
I HAVE the pleafure to tranfmit to you the portrait of a 
Gentoo boy, an aftonifhing living fubject, who being fent to 
me by a friend of mine redding in the environs of the native 
place of the boy, I made two drawings reprefenting the alter- 
nate attitudes in which he can place half the body of his little 
brother, who adheres to his bread:. See Tab. 1L Peruntaloo is 
a handfome well-made lad, poffeffing every due faculty of mind 
and body, rather more fagacious, and with a fuperior, (hare of un- 
derhanding, than young puen in general of his age. In addition 
to the inclofed anatomical defcription of the boy by Mr. An- 
dersln, you will obferve in the drawings two circular dotted 
lines, about the lower part of the loins of the femhmonder. 
During the feveral fittings I had of Peruntaloo, lobferved an 
Internal motion about thefe parts rather more confpicuous than 
any other of the body ; and upon queftioning the youth, he 
fhewed me, that by retaining % his breath, he could force a 
current of air Into them, fo as to fwell the parts like two blown- 
up bladders, with a rumbling noife at the time of adion. Whe- 
ther there is a connexion with the lungs of Peruntaloo is 
Cc aqueftion. 
■Vcl. LXXIX. 
