Edgar Allan Poe — "The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the…"
The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the region just below the small of the back—although, most unaccountably, this deformity was looked on altogether in the light of a beauty. One or two pictures of these singular women have, in fact, been miraculously preserved. They look very odd, very—like something between a turkey-cock and a dromedary.
