intensely prodigious. It is "A Man with a Head
Growing out of his Belly," of whom we learn
as follows: "This man was a Tall and well
Shaped man, att his Navel came out of his
Body a Head and neck down to the Breast, the
face Perfectly well Shaped with Eyes nose
mouth chin forehead and Ears all well shaped
and a Live but could not Speak Eat nor Drink
nor open its Eyes though it had two Eyes and
Showed no Sign of Life it had a good Colour
and two Long Locks of Hair on its head, of a
Black Colour, and a Downny Beard it had Teeth
wee could not see if it had a Toung for it did
not Speake. Its Brother was Born so and in
all other Respects a perfect man of Good Sense
and Understanding Healthi and Strong. Eat and
Drank very Hartily, Spoke and Rit Several
Languages as Latin, French, Italian, High
Dutch, and Pritty good English. He was born
about the year 1678, near Ratisbonn in
Germany and was seen by me James Paris in
London in the year 1698, in the mounth of
December." This gentleman wears a full-flowing
periwig, a scarlet coat, with gold buttons,
blue velvet breeches, stockings turned over at the
knees (which are very feeble), and rather hoofish
boots. His shirt is open, in order to display his
little brother, who issues from his centre,
apparently asleep.

In Number Thirteen we have "Two Brothers
Born Conjoyned." "This man," says J. P.,
"was born as the Figure Represents him a
Perfect man from Head to foot well Proportioned,
from his Right Side Issued a Little above the
hip a Body of a man from the Middle upwards
Perfectly well Shaped with Hands Arms and
Head very much like his Brothers it was a Male
Child as was supposed after he was Cum to the
age of man by its Beard which was of the same
Colour and Thickness as his Brothers he could
Eat and Drink with a Good Apitite had a very
good Sight, and could speak as distinctly as his
Brother I James Paris Asked him if he could feel
weather he had Thighs and Leggs in his Brothers
Body but he said he felt nun nor his Brother
felt Nothing of any motion in his Body Neather
did it apear by the form of his Belly that was
as flat as that of another Man of the Same age
and Bigness the Whole man Held the other up
with his Right Hand. N.B. I have seen these
two Brothers thus Conjoyned the 10 of June
1716 they was aged about 23 years as they said
J. P." The "whole man" looks like a mild
prize-fighter stripped to the waist, with highlows, white
stockings, and blue velvet shorts.

We come next, in Number Fourteen, to
"Nicholas Hart the Sleeping Man," whose
biography is as follows: "Nicholas Hart was born
at Layden in Holland the 5 of August 1684,
his Mother had Been 48 hours a Sleep when she
was Delivered of him, yet it did not Disturb
her, for she Continued her Sleep 48 Hours after
he was Born, he was Thought to be Born ded,
Being fast a' Sleep, and so Remained till after
his Mother Awak'd and every Year he has
Slept since the first Day of his Birth,
Somptimes longer and sumtimes Shorter. He says
he slept in Holland when he was 10 years of
Age, for 7 Weeks Together, the 5 of August his
the Time of his falling a' Sleep, he as Sleept
thus 22 years as did his Mother before him the
same Number of Dayes and Nights I James
Paris saw him in his Sleep the 10 of August
1713 he could not be Waked neither by Shaking
pinching Pricking nor Holding Strong Spirets to
his Nose Docter Woodward put some of the
Strongest Spirets into his nose none of them
had any Effect but a few Grains of Sal Ammomack
being put deep into his Nostrills made
him Cough but did not wake him. N.B. many
Docters of Phisick Members of the Royal
Society Watched by him Night and Day, to see
that he was not an imposter, and they Declared
that he was no Cheat." Nicholas Hart is
represented sleeping in a neat bed,—very like
what is advertised, as "an Arabian bedstead,"
half tester with green curtains,—he wears a
scarlet nightcap in which, possibly, may abide
some soporific virtue. The history of William
Foxley, another remarkable sleeper, of the time
of Henry the Eighth, follows this account of
Nicholas Hart, but his history is told in Stow's
Survey of London.

Numbers Fifteen and Sixteen, exhibit opposite
views of two fair sisters,—"mounstrous
girls" J. P. calls them, who were born
"conjoyned" at Szony in Hungary, A.D. 1701. Their
names were Helen and Judith, and they are
described as very handsome and accomplished,
speaking three languages, "Hungarian or High
Dutch, Low Dutch, and French," and when
J. P. saw them in London, in 1710, they were
learning English. They died two years
afterwards in France,—"one Dyed 3 Dayes after
other in very Great Pains." Number Seventeen
is "A Mounstrous Youth," without legs,
seated on a cushion, and looking very like
one of those objects who say, on a placard,
that they have "lost their precious limbs;"
formerly it used to be "in battle," now "by a
railroad accident." Instead of full-grown limbs
this young gentleman has stumpy thighs
terminating in "two Breasts, in all points like a
Woman, on which he Stands and Walks, he
Climes and Leaps from the Ground upon a
Table, and sits on a Corner of it, but Three
Quarters of an Inch Broad, Leaps, Dances and
shews more Artfull Tricks Than any other Person
Can do with Thighs and Leggs, he speaks
Different Languages, as High Dutch" (this seems
to be a general accomplishment with these
prodigies) "Sclavonian, French and English, he as
been Seen with General Satisfaction by the
Emperour, Emperess of Germany, Prince Eugene
of Savoy, as alsoe by the Kings, Queens and
Courts of Poland, Prussia, Sweden, Denmark
and England." Number Eighteen is the
portrait of a lively little Irish girl named
"Johanna Megrines" (probably Magenis), born at
Waterford in 1702, without arms or legs. She,
too, can "dance, skip, and Lip very nimbly,
—take up from the Ground any piese of money"
(no doubt of it) "be it ever so Small, pinns
Needles, Nails, &c., with Her Stumps." In