304 Afr. Home’s Account of 
double brain, its influence upon the intelleffual principle muft 
have afforded a curious and ufeful fource of inquiry; but un- 
fortunately the child only lived long enough to complete the 
edification of the fkull fo as to retain its fhape, by which means 
we have been enabled to afcertain and regifter the faff, without 
having enjoyed the fat is faff ion that would have refulted from 
an examination of the brain itfelf, and a more mature invefti- 
gation of the effecfs it would have produced. 
Yours, < 3 :c. 
E. H 0 ‘M E. 
Leicefter- fquare, 
May 22, 1790. 
EXPLANATION OF THE PLATES. 
Tab. XVII. The child is reprefented in this plate as it 
appeared at the age of twenty months, and is copied from a 
piffure in the pofleffion of Mr. Stark. 
The painting was taken from the child fix months before its 
death by Mr. Smith, an ingenious artilf, at that time redding 
in Bengal. 
It conveys a general idea of the appearance of this extraor- 
dinary child, and the relative proportions between the double 
head and the body. 
Tab. XVIII. fig. 1 . In this figure the double head is reprefented 
exaffly half the natural fize. One of the eyes of the upper 
face appears fmaller or more contradfed than the other ; this 
is in confequence of the injury it received when the child was 
thrown upon the fire. 
The 
