Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.

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<p>Leaflet (July 1841) advertising appearances by the Porcupine Youth "whose body, with the exception of his interesting face and the palms of his hands, is entirely covered with dark, horny thorns, resembling the coat of a hedgehog or porcupine" from Kilrhedrin, Pembrokeshire.</p>

Wonderful production of nature : the greatest human curiosity! Now in existence, Master Thomas Jones, the Cambrian Porcupine Youth!! ... is now exhibiting, for a short time, at the Cosmorama Rooms, 209 Regent Street.

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