342 ANIMAL REPRODUCTIONS: 
© You have taken from each fevered head, as f 
‘have done, the upper jaw entire, and the ocu= 
‘ Jated horn alfo entire ; then after two or three 
‘months, in June and July, you have feen a 
‘ third of the fnails, even eleven of the twelve 
© firft decapitated, reproduce a complete head, 
‘ with the eye horns, and. the upper jaw formed: 
“like a horfe-fhoe,, with the ferrated teeth. You 
«‘muft permit me ftill to retain. my philofophic’ 
‘doubt concerning the three laft aflertions,. 
‘ until repetition of the following experiments 
‘on which it is founded; experiments. which. 
‘have ferved to confirm the accuracy of my 
‘ operations, and certain: proofs. that my {nails 
* were completely, and not apparently, decapitat- 
‘ed. To obtain the fame. certainty, take the 
‘ greateft number of {nails you pleafe (that is, 
“hundreds, to: provide for the great mortality 
<‘ that will enfue) not of the {mall fpecies, called 
‘the lacquey, which you made ufe of, and is 
‘moft deceiving, from its great lubricity and. 
‘ agility in-evading the knife, an agility propor- 
* tioned to its {mallnefs, and muft have mifled. 
*‘ you; at leaft, that happened to me in my firft 
“attempts, and obliged me to abandon it ;. take,. 
*I fay, the large yellowifh {nail of the vine, nam- 
* ed pomatia, or rather the brown garden. {nail,. 
*by us called the gardener, which is almoft as 
* large, and the moft common of all. After keep. 
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