22 BREEDING. 



adverting to an abftrufe animadverfion upon 

 the ** animalculse in iemme mafculino/" the 

 probable expanfion or contrad:ion of the 

 uterus, the ad: of generation, the crifis of 

 conception, the formation and growth of 

 the foetus in embryo, with other relative 

 confiderations that might very well bear 

 ferions and fcientific inveftigation, were we 

 at all inclined to perplex^ by the introduction 

 of conjediires calculated to promote the 

 learned lucubrations of a certain fociety, 

 but little to entertain the members of a 

 fporting club at Newmarket, or to improve 

 the different gradations of their numerous 

 dependents. 



The uncertainty of all human expedlations 

 being therefore univerfally idmitted, and 

 fuch matters of opinion only paffed over as 

 can never be brought to the decifive teft 

 of infallibility j it is natural to conclude 

 (notwithjftanding fuch cafual deviations) 

 much more may be expedled in the produce, 

 from a dired: coincidence of parts with an 

 union of flrength, fhape, and fymmetry, than 

 from any improper or convenient connexion 

 founded only upon the 7(if^/ y?/^^//o;^ of fire 



and 



