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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 653, 3 May 1870, Page 3

I All the stories told of the Siamese twins, and the double-girl in America, •which has been so much spoken of lately, hardly equal this of the Scotch double-man, of whom the following account is given by the Berum Scoiiarum Historia •"—During the reign of James 111, of Scotland, and at his court, there lived a man double above the waist and single below that region. The King caused him to be carefully brought up. He rapidly acquired a knowledge of music. The two heads learned several languages; they debated together, and the two halves occasionally fought. They lived generally, however, in the greatest harmony. When the lower part of the body was tickled, the two individuals felt it together ; but when, on the other hand, one of the upper individuals was touched, he alone felt the effect. This monstrous being died at the age of twenty-eight years. One of the bodies died several days before the other.