202 The Conclujion. 



as well as to the Gentlemen who communi- 

 cated thefe Difcoveries, it became incumbent 

 on us, as foon as they had fent the Infedls 

 over hither, to put them to a feverebutfpeedy 

 Trial, and from the IfTue of our own Ex- 

 perience, either convince the World that 

 thefe Gentlemen had been miftaken, or give 

 our Teftimony that what they affirm is true. 

 This, Sir, was your Opinion: fuch a Trial 

 you put them to without Delay -, and by 

 three or four Experiments, which you was 

 pleafed to publifli, the Doubts of moft that 

 have read them, are, I believe, removed j 

 but as in Cafes of an extraordinary Nature, 

 the Experiments and Atteftations of diiferent 

 People ferve more effectually to eftablifh 

 Truth, I have thought proper, (by thofe I 

 have juft now laid before you,) to give my 

 Evidence alfo ; fince it may contribute 

 fomething towards encouraging Foreigners 

 to communicate any curious Difcoveries 

 they may happen to make hereafter, when 

 they find we receive them in a civil Man- 

 ner, and take fome Pains to do them JuC- 

 tice. And, indeed, this Publication is in 

 fome Manner become my Duty, as feveral 

 other Gentlemen, after fatisfying themfelves 

 by cutting thefe Creatures afunder and ob- 

 ferving their Reproducftion, have been pleafed 

 to fupprefs their own Experiments in Com* 

 pliment to mine. 



Though 



