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R Thomas Thumb was the son of Mr Theophilus Thumb, of Thumb Hall, in Northumberland. At the Time of his Birth, the Sun was eclipsed; which, is supposed, stinted his Grouth, and made him almost invisible. His Father was greately disconcerted at having such a little tiney toy of a Child, and his Mother too forgot her duty to him, till a very learned Gentleman looked at him through pair of spectacles, and told his Parents, that he would be a a very litttle [sic] man, and a very great Man; is a Riddle, we are to solve by and by.