Ofthe Bezaar ſtone and 
f matter:and it is thus, | 
3 — oF - In the greateſt zndia, (where Prolomeo beth boite ts 
ingendered bee founde fo much gooves, and ſa greate riches before the 
Kiuer Ganges in certains Mountaines which poos iopne 
with the Country of China) there dooe bꝛeede certapns 
beatles like to Hartes, as well in greatneſſe as in ſwilt⸗ 
nete, and are verie much like vnts Hartes, ſauing in forma 
tefpede they doe participate with goates , as well in their 
$oznes which they haue like a goate, beeing turned backe⸗ 
warde, as ia the making ofthe bodie: whereby they gius 
them the mane of Goates of the mountaine wherein in mx 
Opinion thcp are deceiued, fo: they rather onght to bee cal⸗ 
led Partegoates, in that they haue the parts and likeneſſes 
ef hoch, which is ol a Harte and er a Soate. Theſe atte 
geates im khoſe partes doog ble themſelues Ipke to the 
Bartes, that Plinie ſpeaketh ot, in theſe plates as is afoze+ 
lald that goe to the dennes ol wilde denomous beaſtes, and 
with their breathing caufe them to come kooꝛth and cate 
them: and after warde doe goe whereas water is, and do 
plundge themfelues therein, vntill they perceiue that the 
furte ofthe benome which they haue taten bee pat, and vn⸗ 
till chen they dare nat dꝛinke a dꝛoppe. And beeing tome 
feazth from thence they got into the ſleldes, and there they 
eate many healthlull hearbes, ol great vertue, which are a 
gaint venome, which they bytheir naturall infinite Dect 
know that there doe aryle as wel ofthe venom which the? 
daue eatt, as of the herbes whict they haue fed on, being in ⸗ 
gendzed by meanes of the natural heate, and by that ber? 
fue which is declared, beeing infufed at the time of the ge⸗ 
neration in the inner parts of the bowelles, i in other parts 
oftheir bodies, certaine fones,of the greateſt and of tos 
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