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and handsome Limbs. They had thtir Hair more than ordinarily thick, andabout half an Inch long, and the Nails füll grown. The Weight of thisBlrth was 84 Pounds ; the Circumfcrencc of the Lese Head was about r 1 In -ckes, that of the Rightbeing half ani Inch lefs. The Circumference of theTrunk was about i<5 Inches and l ; and the length of both, from Head toFoot, was füll i 8 Inches and an half.

Wc foundon Disiection One Navet V ein, and One Liv.r, but that was ve-ry large, with the Bladder of Galt fe-ited Iu itsusoal place : but there were TwoXJrmary Bladders, Two Wombs , Four Kidneys, and One Stomach, with theOesophagus or Gullet perforate and open from the Mouth of the lest Head;but the Oesophagus from the Mouth of the Right Head descended no lowerthan a little above half an Inch of the Mid-rtff , and there it ended. Whenceit may be concluded, that the Right-hand-Child muti have received itsNourishment by and from the Left-Child. There was but One Colon whichterminated into two Inteßina Reif a. So there was but One Mid-rff, and a-bove that, we could find little or no appearance of Lungs ; but only a veryLarge Heart, (with two Attricles,) theFigureof which was not Conical, butlike a Sotildiets Pera or Snapsack, or the Ventricle or Stomach ; and lyingnear under the Clavtcles trans ver (e, as the Stomach lyeth under the Mid-rijfand Liver. We did also obsorve Two Ventricles with the Tricuspid or Stgmo-tJ-valvesj as also the Vena Cava and Aorta dependant, and also the Aortaasoending and Bifurcate towards each Neck, and then Bifurcate again.

TheMotheris in inasgood aCondition of Health, as women in Child-bed use to be.

^ IV. At Petworth, in SuJjex, Dec. 20 . i6yy. onc JoanPeto, a Butcber’swl U 0u- d<,f ' WIse ’ aster most acute Pains was by her Midwife delivered of a Monstrousphragm ; lyDr. Ftmale-Birth. It had Two Heads. Both the Faces very well fhaped. The® ^°” is n i 3 8- Lest Face locked Swarthy; and never Breathed. And the Lest Head wasthe bigger, and stayed longer in the Bearing. The Right Head was per-ceived to Breath ; but not heard to Cry. Betwixt the Heads was a Protube-rance, like another Shoulder. The Breall (and Clavtcles') very large > a*bout 7 Incbesbroad. But Two Hands: And but Two Fett.

The Brain, in each Head, was very Large. The Spina Dorf, from theNeck to the Loyns, was Double. There were also Two Hearts , one oneach fide the Thorax ; The Lest Heart the bigger. And Two pair of Längs ,one infolding each Heart. Thoie in the lest fide were blackish ; the otherlooked well. The Medtafiinum parted the Two Hearts one from the other.The Aorta and Vena Cava, below the Diaphragm, Single: the Diaphragmhaving only three Perforations, cs is usoal. But a little above it theywere each Dsvided intoTwo Branches, distribured to the Two Hearts in theFigure of a Grcek Y. The Oesophagus, in like mannen, a little above theDiaphragm, scii, about the Fisth Vertebra was Divided into Two Branches,one Asoending up into each Throat. There were also Two Sttmacbs or Ven-triculi j One fhaped, as inaNatural Birth: The other, a kind of great Bag,

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