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tiefe ttalks amounts not to.a §00, pare of an Inch, yet do they'compofe 
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fo firongaitexture; acy notwith{tanding the exceeding quick and-violent || 
beating of'them againti-the Air, by the: ftrength of the Birds wing, they 
firmly hold together; And it argues am sini abies providence of ad 
inthe contrivance and: fabrick of thenis for their texture is fach, that 
though by-any.external injury the parts of themare violently dif-joyn’d; 
{fo asthat the leaves and ftalkstouch not One-another, and confequently 
—— feveral of thefe rents would impede the Bird’sflying ; yer, for the molt 
part; of: themfelvesthey-readily re-join-and re-contex themfelves,and are 
~ eafilyby the Birds ftroking the Feather, ordrawing it through its Bill all 
of them! iettied and'woven into their former arid -natural pofture far | 
there!aré fuch an infinite company: of thofe {mall fbres in'the wader fide 
of the leaves, and moft of them have fuch little crooks at their ends,that 
theyteadily carchiand heldthe ftalks they toneh. >” oat 
» From which ftrange ¢contexturesinfeems rational to fippofe that thete 
is acertain kind:of meth or hole fo fmall, that the Air'will net very eafily 
fattthetogh it, asLhinted alfo in the fixth Obfervation about friall'Glafs 
Canes;for otherwile itfeems probable, that Nature would have drawn 
over {ame:kind: of thin film which fhould have covered all thofe almoft 
fquare mefhes or holes, there feeming through the AGcrofcope to be more 
themhalf of the furface of the Feather which is open and vifibly pervi- 
ouss.which conjecture will yet feem more probable from the texture of 
the brnfhie-wings of the Zinca argetea, or white Feather wing’d math; 
which’[ fhall anone defcribe. But Nature, that: knows beft its own laws, 
and the feveral properties of bodies,knows alfo beft how to adapt and 
them to her defigned:ends,and whofo would know thofe properties, muft 
endeavour to'trace’ Nature ints working, and to fee what courfe fhe 
obferves; And this I fuppofe will be no inconfiderable advantage which 
the Schematifies and. Structures of Animate bodies will afford: the dili+ 
ent enquirer, namely, moft fure and excellent inftruGions, both: as to 
the practical part of Afechanicks andto the Theory and knowledge of the 
nature of the bodies and motions. “Ty 
eS TT re eh Fh ee eee 
“ST ee 2 
= —— Pr # 
ee TF a = 2 
Obferv. X KX Vi, Of Peacoks, Ducks; ‘and other Feathers of 
“THe parts of the Feathers of this glorious Bird. appear; throngh the 
'*. Microfcope, no \e& gaudy then do the whole Feathers; for, as to the 
naked eye. ’tis evident that the ftem or quill of each Feather in the tail 
fends out multitudes of Lateral branches, fuch as AB in the third F _ 
of the 22., cheme reprefentsa {mall part of about 4 part of an Inch! ie 
and eachof the /ateral branches emit multitudes of little (prigs, threa 
or hairs-on either fide of them, fachas CD, CD, CD, foeach of thofe 
threads in the Aéiera/cope appears large long bocly.conlafting cia 
