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With a slight alteration, I might begin this chapter after the manner of Livy, in the 24th section of his first book: -"It _happened, that in each family were three twin brothers, between whom there was little disparity in point of age or of strength. "_
Among the steerage passengers of the Highlander, were two women from Armagh, in Ireland, widows and sisters, who had each three twin sons, born, as they said, on the same day.