12S NOTES TO THE 



(11) "^^ Alia auimalia spoiite procreanturj alia 

 in excrementis, aut jam in excretis, aut adhuc intra 

 unimantem contentis ut quae Taeniae, sive Lum- 

 brici appellantiir, quorum tria genera sunt, latum, 

 teres, et quod Ascarida apellatum est, ex quo nihil 

 procreari aliud potest." Aristoteles, Historia an- 

 imallum, lib. 5, cap. 19 ; see Jlr.^ Opera Graec» 

 et Lat. ; ed. Gulielm. dii Vail., Lutet. Paris, 17^9, 

 infol. p. 84'J. 



Sic ubi tlcserult madidos septernfluus .igros 



Kilus, et antiquo sua fiumina reddidit alveo, 

 Aetliereoque recens ex arsit sidere limus ; 



Plurima cultores versis auimalia glebis 

 Inveniiint ; et in his qiiaedani modo coepta sub ipsum 



Nascendi spatium; quaedain impers5cta ; suisque 

 Trunca vident numeris: et eodeni corpore soepe, 



Altera pars vivit: rudis est pars altera tellus. 

 Quippe ubi tcmperiem sumpsere, humorquc, calorque, 



Concipiunt: et ab his oriuntur cuncta duobus. 

 Cumque sit ignis aquae pugnax, vapor humidus omnes 



Res creat, discors concordia faetibus apta est." 



Or ID. Mdam. lib. 1, v. 422. 



[The American Translator is neither prepared 

 nor disposed to enter at any length into the merits 

 or demerits of an hypothesis, which has already 

 occupied more time than it has rewarded with any 

 advantage. So far as he has examined the sub- 

 ject, or can conceive of it, he finds no reason to 

 adopt the opinion of the equivocal generation of 

 insects or of any other animals. But he would be 

 less wise than presumptuous to imagine that he had 

 any thing to offer which is likely to weaken the 



