*fhe Quincunx Naturally Confidered. 



way we cannot but with a model of 

 their boufes, fo much extolled by fotne 

 Defcribers.- wherein fince they are (b 

 bold as to venture upon three ftages, we 

 might examine their Artifice in the con- 

 tignations, the rule and order in the 

 compactions ; or whether that magni 

 fied ftrudure be any more then a rude 

 reftangular pyle or meer hoveli-build- 



Thus works the hand of nature in the 

 feathery plantation about birds* Ob- 

 fervable in the skins of the * breaft,legs * 

 and Pinions of Turkies, Gecfe, and 

 Ducks, and the Oars or finny feet of of 

 Water-Fowl . And fuch a naturall Net the ftrip- 

 is thefcaly covering of Fidics, of Mul- ^^! 

 lets. Carps, Tenches, &c. even in fuch Fowl, of 

 as are cxcoriable and confift of fmaller ^ 

 fcalcs, as Bretts, Soals, and Flounders, bonder >" 

 The like Reticulate grain is obfer vabie 

 in fome K*ffU Leather. To omit the 

 ruder Figures of the oft racion, the trian 

 gular or cunny fiflb, or the pricks of the 

 &a*Porcupine* 



The fame is alfo obfervable in fome 

 part of the skin of man, in habits of neat 



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