An essay for the recording of illustrious providences

CHAP. IX.

A strange Relation of a Woman in Weymouth in New-England, that has been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless has a competent knowledge in the Mysteries of Religion, and is admitted to the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances of ways to teach those that are naturally Deaf and Dumb to speak. Another Relation of a Man in Hull in New-England, under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that Petrification which humane Bodies are subject unto. That Plants and diverse sorts of Animals have sometimes bred in the Bodies of Men.

A strange Relation of a Woman in Weymouth in New-England, that has been Dumb and Deaf ever since she was three years old, who nevertheless has a competent knowledge in the Mysteries of Religion, and is admitted to the Sacrament. Some parallel Instances of wayes to teach those that are naturally Deaf and Dumb to speak. Another Relation of a Man in Hull in New-England, under whose Tongue a Stone bred. Concerning that Petrification which humane Bodies are subject unto. That Plants and diverse sorts of Animals have sometimes bred in the Bodies of Men.

Having dispatched the Digression, which the things related in some of the preceding Chapters did necessarily lead us into: I now proceed in commemorating some other Remarkables, which it is pity but that Posterity should have the knowledge of. I shall in this Chapter only take notice of two particulars amongst our selves, with some parallel Instances which have happened in other parts of the World. I am informed that there is now at Weymouth in New-England a Man and his Wife who are both of them Deaf, and